Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
X-Rite Europe GmbH is currently prosecuting patents in the Communications technology area. The company has 2 pending office actions, which are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. This indicates that the company's current patent activity is split between two separate matters, each receiving individual attention from the patent office.
The portfolio's activity is further divided across 2 distinct art units. COFINO, JONATHAN M is identified as the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. This single action represents half of the 2 pending office actions currently facing the company, with the other half being managed by a different examiner in a different art unit.
For patent practitioners, the involvement of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units requires a strategy that accounts for different technical and procedural expectations. While COFINO, JONATHAN M handles 1 pending matter, the company must also address the requirements of the second examiner. This distribution across 2 pending office actions suggests a diversified focus within the Communications sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COFINO, JONATHAN M | 1 | 63.0% | +31.9% |
| KAUR, JASPREET | 1 | 77.8% | +37.5% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18014999 | VISUALIZING THE APPEARANCE OF AT LEAST TWO MATERIALS | COFINO, JONATHAN M | 73d overdue |
| 17986609 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INVESTIGATING VISUAL PROPERTIES OF A SAMPLE SURFACE HAVING DEFECTS | KAUR, JASPREET | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2614 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18014999 | VISUALIZING THE APPEARANCE OF AT LEAST TWO MATERIALS | COFINO, JONATHAN M | 2614 | §103 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
| 17986609 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INVESTIGATING VISUAL PROPERTIES OF A SAMPLE SURFACE HAVING DEFECTS | KAUR, JASPREET | 2662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2022 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial