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
Affectiva Inc. has 1 pending office action in Communications. Examination is concentrated with 1 examiner and 1 art unit, leaving no indication of a broader examiner or art-unit spread.
CARTER, AARON W is the listed busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The practical priority is a targeted review of that action and a response tailored to the single examination relationship.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARTER, AARON W | 1 | 85.0% | +8.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19008742 | VEHICULAR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH TEXT TRANSLATION LAYER | CARTER, AARON W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2661 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19008742 | VEHICULAR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH TEXT TRANSLATION LAYER | CARTER, AARON W | 2661 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialAffectiva Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Aaron W Carter has the most, with 1 of Affectiva Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
