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 • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. has 1 pending office action in the technology area of Communications. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The current prosecution activity is centralized, with the entirety of the active pipeline funneling through a specific point of contact at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BARUA, PRANESH K, who is responsible for the busiest examiner pending office action. With the active matter being handled by this individual, the company's immediate patent strategy is tied to the outcome of this specific examination. This concentration allows for a direct line of communication between the applicant and the examiner.
Practitioners should note that the alignment of the pending matter within the Communications sector ensures that the examination is conducted by a specialist in the field. The focus on a single examiner and art unit provides a streamlined prosecution environment. This structure minimizes the complexity often associated with managing multiple examiner relationships across different technical units at the USPTO.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARUA, PRANESH K | 1 | 77.9% | +13.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18627062 | OPTICAL PHASE CHANGE APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CHANGING A PHASE OF AN OPTICAL SIGNAL | BARUA, PRANESH K | 17d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18627062 | OPTICAL PHASE CHANGE APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CHANGING A PHASE OF AN OPTICAL SIGNAL | BARUA, PRANESH K | 2635 | §102Other | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
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