Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
AppDirect, Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio is distributed across separate examination assignments.
NGUYEN, DAVID VAN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Effective oversight will require assignment-specific responses, supported by a consistent communications technology narrative across the matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, DAVID VAN | 1 | 88.9% | +12.7% |
| VINCENT, ROSS MICHAEL | 1 | 51.7% | +38.0% |
| LIU, ZHENGXI | 1 | 64.1% | +41.0% |
| REYES, MARIELA D | 1 | 61.1% | +23.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18852223 | CONVERSATIONAL DIGITAL CHARACTER BLENDING AND GENERATION | NGUYEN, DAVID VAN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18756881 | MACHINE INTERACTION | VINCENT, ROSS MICHAEL | — |
| 17621616 | ARCHITECTURE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR SIMULATING DYNAMICS BETWEEN EMOTIONAL STATES OR BEHAVIOR FOR A MAMMAL MODEL AND ARTIFICIAL NERVOUS SYSTEM | REYES, MARIELA D | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18702866 | VIRTUAL AVATAR ANIMATION | LIU, ZHENGXI | 93d overdue |
| 18852223 | CONVERSATIONAL DIGITAL CHARACTER BLENDING AND GENERATION | NGUYEN, DAVID VAN | — |
| 18756881 | MACHINE INTERACTION | VINCENT, ROSS MICHAEL | — |
| 17621616 | ARCHITECTURE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR SIMULATING DYNAMICS BETWEEN EMOTIONAL STATES OR BEHAVIOR FOR A MAMMAL MODEL AND ARTIFICIAL NERVOUS SYSTEM | REYES, MARIELA D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2617 | 1 |
| 2196 | 1 |
| 2611 | 1 |
| 2100 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18852223 | CONVERSATIONAL DIGITAL CHARACTER BLENDING AND GENERATION | NGUYEN, DAVID VAN | 2617 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18756881 | MACHINE INTERACTION | VINCENT, ROSS MICHAEL | 2196 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18702866 | VIRTUAL AVATAR ANIMATION | LIU, ZHENGXI | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 93d overdue | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 17621616 | ARCHITECTURE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR SIMULATING DYNAMICS BETWEEN EMOTIONAL STATES OR BEHAVIOR FOR A MAMMAL MODEL AND ARTIFICIAL NERVOUS SYSTEM | REYES, MARIELA D | 2100 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialAppDirect, Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
David Van Nguyen has the most, with 1 of AppDirect, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
