Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Bluecap Co. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This action is situated in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated technical focus for the company's current intellectual property. The use of 1 art unit suggests that the pending matter is being evaluated against a specific set of prior art and technical standards.
The prosecution is overseen by 1 distinct examiner, LIM, STEVEN. As the busiest examiner for the portfolio, LIM, STEVEN is responsible for 1 pending office action. This creates a 1 to 1 relationship between the examiner and the company's total pending workload, which simplifies the communication chain for the applicant.
Practitioners should note that with 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the current prosecution strategy is highly centralized. This centralization within the Communications sector allows for a focused approach to addressing USPTO concerns. The absence of multiple examiners or art units means the applicant can focus resources on the specific requirements of LIM, STEVEN.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIM, STEVEN | 1 | 68.9% | +12.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18614486 | WELL MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD | LIM, STEVEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18614486 | WELL MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD | LIM, STEVEN | 2688 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBluecap Co. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Steven Lim has the most, with 1 of Bluecap Co.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
