Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
A&E Engineering Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SIRJANI, FARIBA, in 1 distinct art unit. SIRJANI, FARIBA is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This single action represents the full extent of the company's current pending workload at the USPTO.
The prosecution of this 1 pending office action is being conducted by SIRJANI, FARIBA within 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the examiner's specific approach to Communications technology area patents. Because there are no other pending office actions, the company's resources can be entirely focused on this one matter. The success of the company's current patent strategy hinges on the outcome of this 1 pending office action, making the interaction with the assigned examiner particularly significant.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIRJANI, FARIBA | 1 | 75.4% | +31.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18941807 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A WORKFLOW DATA STRUCTURE | SIRJANI, FARIBA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2659 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18941807 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A WORKFLOW DATA STRUCTURE | SIRJANI, FARIBA | 2659 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialA&E Engineering Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Fariba Sirjani has the most, with 1 of A&E Engineering Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
