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
Z2Open Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Computing & Software technology area. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, BOWEN, RICHARD L. The prosecution is focused within a single distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical and administrative path for the company's current filing. This alignment of the action with the examiner and art unit minimizes the complexity of the current portfolio.
The busiest examiner pending action assigned to BOWEN, RICHARD L represents the total count of active office actions. With only the distinct examiner and art unit involved, the prosecution profile is consolidated. This single pending office action defines the company's current interaction with the patent office. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the art unit and the preferences of the examiner involved in this case.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOWEN, RICHARD L | 1 | 80.7% | +26.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19109138 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTER-OPERATION OF LEGACY AND OPEN COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT | BOWEN, RICHARD L | 42d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19109138 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTER-OPERATION OF LEGACY AND OPEN COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT | BOWEN, RICHARD L | 42d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2165 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19109138 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTER-OPERATION OF LEGACY AND OPEN COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT | BOWEN, RICHARD L | 2165 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
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