Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
C-Hear Inc. is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Networking & Security technology area. This specific matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner located within a single distinct art unit. The narrow scope of the current pending portfolio suggests a highly focused prosecution effort concentrated in a single technical niche of the patent office. This concentration allows the company to focus its legal resources on a single set of examiner expectations and art unit norms.
The busiest examiner for the company is ZHANG, SHIRLEY X, who is responsible for the pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending action total, this examiner manages the entirety of the company's active office action workload. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the art unit and the preferences of this individual examiner, as they represent the total current interface between the company and the patent office in this technology area. The absence of other pending actions means there are no competing deadlines to manage.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, SHIRLEY X | 1 | 69.8% | +14.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18961914 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CODEC FOR COMBINING DISPARATE CONTENT | ZHANG, SHIRLEY X | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18961914 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CODEC FOR COMBINING DISPARATE CONTENT | ZHANG, SHIRLEY X | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2447 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18961914 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CODEC FOR COMBINING DISPARATE CONTENT | ZHANG, SHIRLEY X | 2447 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialC-Hear Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Shirley X Zhang has the most, with 1 of C-Hear Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
