Technology area: Communications
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Black Sesame Technologies Inc. has 6 pending office actions in Communications. Each action is associated with a separate examiner and art unit, producing 6 examiner assignments and 6 art-unit assignments.
LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The workload is therefore distributed rather than concentrated with one examiner. Counsel should compare the actions for recurring claim or prior-art themes, while preserving response plans that reflect the distinct examination settings.
The one-to-one relationship between actions, examiners, and art units makes assignment tracking especially important. A change in argument or amendment practice should be evaluated against the specific examiner handling the affected application, rather than treated as a portfolio-wide rule.
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 (17%) |
| §103 only | 4 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER | 1 | 90.0% | +14.3% |
| NAH, JONGBONG | 1 | 76.0% | +17.5% |
| ZHAO, LEI | 1 | 73.7% | +18.3% |
| HELCO, NICHOLAS JOHN | 1 | 67.3% | +40.5% |
| BEJCEK II, ROBERT H | 1 | 62.8% | +22.5% |
| ISLAM, MEHRAZUL NMN | 1 | 54.4% | +21.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18959373 | DETECTING AND TRACKING OBJECTS USING SENSOR DATA | LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER | — |
| 18081515 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF HARDWARE QUANTIZATION PROCESS | BEJCEK II, ROBERT H | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17686168 | ANOMALY DETECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSOR | ISLAM, MEHRAZUL NMN | 39d |
| 18959373 | DETECTING AND TRACKING OBJECTS USING SENSOR DATA | LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER | — |
| 18674583 | OBJECT DETECTION USING MULTI-CHANNEL DATA | NAH, JONGBONG | — |
| 18232602 | 2-D REAL-TIME PEDESTRIAN POSE ESTIMATION MODEL FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEMS | ZHAO, LEI | — |
| 18224046 | REAL-TIME TRAFFIC ASSISTANCE AND DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | HELCO, NICHOLAS JOHN | — |
| 18081515 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF HARDWARE QUANTIZATION PROCESS | BEJCEK II, ROBERT H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2664 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| 2667 | 1 |
| 2148 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18959373 | DETECTING AND TRACKING OBJECTS USING SENSOR DATA | LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER | 2664 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18674583 | OBJECT DETECTION USING MULTI-CHANNEL DATA | NAH, JONGBONG | 2674 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18232602 | 2-D REAL-TIME PEDESTRIAN POSE ESTIMATION MODEL FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEMS | ZHAO, LEI | 2668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18224046 | REAL-TIME TRAFFIC ASSISTANCE AND DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | HELCO, NICHOLAS JOHN | 2667 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18081515 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF HARDWARE QUANTIZATION PROCESS | BEJCEK II, ROBERT H | 2148 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2022 |
| 17686168 | ANOMALY DETECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSOR | ISLAM, MEHRAZUL NMN | 2662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Mar 03, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialBlack Sesame Technologies Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Karsten Foster Lantz has the most, with 1 of Black Sesame Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
