Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow scope of active prosecution for this specific portfolio segment. Such a concentrated profile indicates that the company's current legal efforts in this area are focused on a single technical challenge or a specific patent application.
The busiest examiner, MAIDEN, MICHAEL KIM, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This indicates that the 1 pending office action is the sole focus of the company's current interactions with the patent office in this area. For a practitioner, this concentration simplifies the management of the portfolio, as all active legal efforts are directed toward a single individual and a single art unit.
In the Communications field, having only 1 distinct examiner involved allows for a very direct prosecution strategy. With 1 pending office action total, the workload is minimal, and the practitioner can focus entirely on the specific concerns of MAIDEN, MICHAEL KIM. This singular focus on 1 busiest examiner pending office action provides a clear and uncomplicated path for resolving the company's current patent matters in this technology area.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAIDEN, MICHAEL KIM | 1 | 91.1% | +11.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18943776 | Method, Computer Program and System for Analysing one or more Moving Objects in a Video | MAIDEN, MICHAEL KIM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18943776 | Method, Computer Program and System for Analysing one or more Moving Objects in a Video | MAIDEN, MICHAEL KIM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2665 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18943776 | Method, Computer Program and System for Analysing one or more Moving Objects in a Video | MAIDEN, MICHAEL KIM | 2665 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBoehringer Ingelheim GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael Kim Maiden has the most, with 1 of Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
