Recall that recently, as part of dissolving the “ghost art unit”, the USPTO created a new art unit 2919 headed by an Eric Goodman. Now for the first time, this new art unit 2919 has a publicly stated First Office Action Prediction. Cases in art unit 2919 that were filed two months ago have an FOAP of 18 months.
This compares favorably with art unit 2913 which has FOAPs in the range of 32 months.