Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
8x8 Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. There is no overlap in the personnel or specialized units for these cases. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the company's prosecution footprint is small and distributed. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the networking technologies in the portfolio fall into different technical categories.
SHITAYEWOLDETSADI, BERHANU is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage two separate prosecution tracks without any overlap in examiner interaction. The 2 distinct art units indicate that the 2 pending office actions are being evaluated by different specialized divisions. This lack of overlap means that the outcome of one action is unlikely to provide significant procedural insight into the other, despite both being within the Networking & Security technology area. Practitioners should treat each of the 2 pending office actions as an independent effort requiring a tailored approach to the specific requirements of each distinct examiner and art unit.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHITAYEWOLDETSADI, BERHANU | 1 | 83.8% | +25.3% |
| PATEL, HEMANT SHANTILAL | 1 | 81.3% | +13.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18957069 | UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS CALL ROUTING AND DECISION BASED ON INTEGRATED ANALYTICS-DRIVEN DATABASE AND AGGREGATED DATA | PATEL, HEMANT SHANTILAL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19254931 | CONTEXTUAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) BASED ROUTING OF NETWORK COMMUNICATION | SHITAYEWOLDETSADI, BERHANU | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19254931 | CONTEXTUAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) BASED ROUTING OF NETWORK COMMUNICATION | SHITAYEWOLDETSADI, BERHANU | — |
| 18957069 | UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS CALL ROUTING AND DECISION BASED ON INTEGRATED ANALYTICS-DRIVEN DATABASE AND AGGREGATED DATA | PATEL, HEMANT SHANTILAL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2455 | 1 |
| 2694 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19254931 | CONTEXTUAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) BASED ROUTING OF NETWORK COMMUNICATION | SHITAYEWOLDETSADI, BERHANU | 2455 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 18957069 | UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS CALL ROUTING AND DECISION BASED ON INTEGRATED ANALYTICS-DRIVEN DATABASE AND AGGREGATED DATA | PATEL, HEMANT SHANTILAL | 2694 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial8x8 Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Berhanu Shitayewoldetsadi has the most, with 1 of 8x8 Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
