Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Adb Safegate Americas LLC maintains 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. Prosecution is concentrated with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specific technical focus for the company's current filings. Having this 1 pending office action indicates that the company's current patent office engagement is limited to a single matter. This concentration requires a precise strategy to address the specific concerns of the assigned examiner.
AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action, which is the only pending action currently recorded for the company. Because the entire pending workload is managed by this examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's immediate prosecution outcomes are tied to this point of contact. Practitioners should analyze the assigned art unit in the context of the examiner's specific trends, as the division's administrative standards will govern the 1 pending action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 1 | 65.4% | +13.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17966452 | Airfield Ground Light with Integrated Light Controller That Employs Powerline Communications and Sensors | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17966452 | Airfield Ground Light with Integrated Light Controller That Employs Powerline Communications and Sensors | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 2686 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAdb Safegate Americas LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Anthony D Afrifa-Kyei has the most, with 1 of Adb Safegate Americas LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
