Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Vonix Systems LLC has 1 pending office action in the Computing & Software technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The prosecution is focused within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific technical review for the 1 pending office action.
The busiest examiner for the company is HALE, BROOKS T. This individual is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This single action accounts for the entire 1 pending office action currently active for the company. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's current success in the Computing & Software area depends on the findings of HALE, BROOKS T. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates a centralized examination process for this single matter.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| HALE, BROOKS T | 1 | 51.1% | +34.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18605639 | HIERARCHICAL CONTENT ORGANIZATION FOR IMPROVED INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL | HALE, BROOKS T | 30d overdue |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18605639 | HIERARCHICAL CONTENT ORGANIZATION FOR IMPROVED INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL | HALE, BROOKS T | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2166 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18605639 | HIERARCHICAL CONTENT ORGANIZATION FOR IMPROVED INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL | HALE, BROOKS T | 2166 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
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