Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Akanthas has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, KOPPOLU, VAISALI RAO, and is located within 1 distinct art unit. As the busiest examiner, KOPPOLU, VAISALI RAO is responsible for the 1 pending office action, which is the only active action in the company's current portfolio. This profile shows a highly focused prosecution effort within the Communications sector, with all current activity tied to 1 distinct examiner.
For a practitioner, the outcome of the 1 pending office action is entirely dependent on the interaction with KOPPOLU, VAISALI RAO. With only 1 distinct art unit involved, there is no diversification across different technical classifications. The company's immediate patent goals are concentrated in this single case, making the specific examiner's history and the art unit's standards the primary factors for success in the current prosecution cycle. Practitioners should prepare for a focused negotiation within the 1 distinct art unit, as there are no other pending office actions to provide alternative paths for patent allowance. The relationship between the examiner and the 1 pending office action highlights the importance of addressing the specific concerns raised by KOPPOLU, VAISALI RAO to advance the company's patent interests.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOPPOLU, VAISALI RAO | 1 | 79.6% | +26.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18992176 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING LOOSE WASTE COLLECTION ENCLOSURES | KOPPOLU, VAISALI RAO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18992176 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING LOOSE WASTE COLLECTION ENCLOSURES | KOPPOLU, VAISALI RAO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18992176 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING LOOSE WASTE COLLECTION ENCLOSURES | KOPPOLU, VAISALI RAO | 2664 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialAkanthas has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Vaisali Rao Koppolu has the most, with 1 of Akanthas's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
