Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Warby Parker Inc. possesses a patent portfolio in the Communications technology area. The company's active prosecution is currently limited to 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the company's current focus at the patent office is concentrated in a single technical area of the communications field. This level of activity suggests a targeted intellectual property strategy for the company's current filings.
The portfolio is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, AKHAVANNIK, HADI. As the busiest examiner, AKHAVANNIK, HADI is responsible for 1 pending office action, which accounts for the entirety of the company's current pending actions. This results in a centralized prosecution process where all active communication with the patent office is funneled through 1 individual. For practitioners, this means that the current strategy is focused on addressing the specific requirements of AKHAVANNIK, HADI within 1 distinct art unit. There are no other active examiners or 1 distinct art units currently influencing the portfolio's progress, making the relationship with AKHAVANNIK, HADI critical to the company's immediate patent outcomes.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKHAVANNIK, HADI | 1 | 85.9% | +13.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18346948 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | AKHAVANNIK, HADI | 1d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18346948 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | AKHAVANNIK, HADI | 1d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18346948 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | AKHAVANNIK, HADI | 2676 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
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