Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Beamlink Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, showing a centralized prosecution environment. The company's current efforts are focused on a single application or a very narrow set of related claims. This concentration allows for a very targeted legal strategy but offers no diversification across different examiners.
CURTIS B ODOM is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This figure matches the total of 1 pending office action for the company, meaning this examiner is the sole arbiter for the company's current pending matters. The prosecution strategy must be tailored specifically to the feedback from this examiner. The company's success in the Communications area is currently tied to this interaction.
The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit indicates a lack of technical dispersion in the current workload. With 1 distinct examiner managing the 1 pending office action, the company has a direct and singular line of communication with the USPTO. Practitioners should prioritize the specific procedural and substantive preferences of CURTIS B ODOM. Effectively addressing the pending office action will require a deep understanding of the standards within the art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ODOM, CURTIS B | 1 | 87.2% | +11.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18485632 | FIXED BASE STATION ANTENNA SYSTEM USING DIRECTIONAL AND OMNIDIRECTIONAL ANTENNA ELEMENTS IN A MIMO CONFIGURATION | ODOM, CURTIS B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18485632 | FIXED BASE STATION ANTENNA SYSTEM USING DIRECTIONAL AND OMNIDIRECTIONAL ANTENNA ELEMENTS IN A MIMO CONFIGURATION | ODOM, CURTIS B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2631 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18485632 | FIXED BASE STATION ANTENNA SYSTEM USING DIRECTIONAL AND OMNIDIRECTIONAL ANTENNA ELEMENTS IN A MIMO CONFIGURATION | ODOM, CURTIS B | 2631 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBeamlink Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Curtis B Odom has the most, with 1 of Beamlink Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
