Technology area: Communications
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Applied Optoelectronics Inc. currently faces 4 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. This volume of active prosecution suggests a focused effort to expand the company's patent footprint in the telecommunications sector through several key filings.
These 4 pending office actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that while the company's technology is concentrated enough to fall within a small number of art units, it still requires interaction with multiple specialized examiners, each with their own procedural preferences.
BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 2 pending office actions. Since this single examiner handles a significant portion of the company's 4 pending office actions, their specific approach to the Communications field will be a primary factor in the success of the current prosecution cycle. Legal strategy should prioritize understanding this examiner's history to effectively manage the matters within these 3 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL | 2 | 74.9% | +11.3% |
| ELAHEE, MD S | 1 | 79.3% | +26.9% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18792054 | LOW DATA RATE, LOW POWER BI-DIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSIONS OVER EXISTING PHYSICAL COMMUNICATION MEDIA USING A PORTABLE NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS MODULE | BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL | 56d |
| 18924107 | CATV HYBRID FIBER-COAXIAL NETWORK AMPLIFIER PORTABLE WIRELESS ADAPTER | ELAHEE, MD S | — |
| 18437607 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOW DATA RATE, LOW POWER BI-DIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSIONS OVER EXISTING PHYSICAL COMMUNICATION MEDIA | BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2632 | 2 |
| 2694 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18924107 | CATV HYBRID FIBER-COAXIAL NETWORK AMPLIFIER PORTABLE WIRELESS ADAPTER | ELAHEE, MD S | 2694 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18792054 | LOW DATA RATE, LOW POWER BI-DIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSIONS OVER EXISTING PHYSICAL COMMUNICATION MEDIA USING A PORTABLE NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS MODULE | BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL | 2632 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18437607 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOW DATA RATE, LOW POWER BI-DIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSIONS OVER EXISTING PHYSICAL COMMUNICATION MEDIA | BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL | 2632 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialApplied Optoelectronics Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Kevin Michael Burd has the most, with 2 of Applied Optoelectronics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
