Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Barco N.V. has 5 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are highly distributed, with 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units involved. PAUL M BERARDESCA is the busiest examiner, handling 1 pending office action.
The fact that there are 5 pending office actions spread across 5 distinct art units suggests that each filing covers a different technical aspect of communications. Furthermore, because there are 5 distinct examiners, no two pending actions are being reviewed by the same person. This high level of fragmentation means that the company's prosecution strategy must be very flexible. For the practitioner, this requires navigating 5 different sets of examiner preferences and 5 different art unit standards. With 5 pending office actions in 5 distinct art units, the company has a broad footprint in the communications field. PAUL M BERARDESCA is the busiest examiner, but with only 1 pending office action, his influence is limited to a single case. This distribution ensures that the success of the portfolio is not tied to any one examiner or art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ENGLISH, ALECIA DIANE | 1 | 42.2% | +9.4% |
| BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. | 1 | 68.1% | +11.7% |
| LE, BAO-LUAN Q | 1 | 52.3% | +16.4% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18911814 | ELECTRONIC TOOL AND METHODS WITH AUDIO FOR MEETINGS | BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. | 44d overdue |
| 17757106 | A LASER REFLECTION UNIT | LE, BAO-LUAN Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2625 | 1 |
| 2184 | 1 |
| 2882 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18860996 | AUTOMATIC MODULE ARRAY MAPPING WITH INHERENT REDUNDANCY | ENGLISH, ALECIA DIANE | 2625 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18911814 | ELECTRONIC TOOL AND METHODS WITH AUDIO FOR MEETINGS | BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. | 2184 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 17757106 | A LASER REFLECTION UNIT | LE, BAO-LUAN Q | 2882 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialBarco N.V. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Alecia Diane English has the most, with 1 of Barco N.V.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
