Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Canon Kabusiki Kaisha has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SILVA-AVINA, EMMANUEL. The prosecution is currently confined to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a singular point of contact within the patent office for this portfolio's active matters.
SILVA-AVINA, EMMANUEL is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action represents the entirety of the company's pending workload in the Communications technology area. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit and under 1 distinct examiner suggests a focused prosecution effort for the current application.
Practitioners working on this portfolio will interact solely with SILVA-AVINA, EMMANUEL. The data indicates no other pending office actions or examiners are currently involved. This centralized environment allows for a direct focus on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit as interpreted by the 1 busiest examiner pending action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SILVA-AVINA, EMMANUEL | 1 | 79.5% | +11.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19052503 | MEDICAL IMAGE RENDERING METHOD AND APPARATUS | SILVA-AVINA, EMMANUEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2673 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19052503 | MEDICAL IMAGE RENDERING METHOD AND APPARATUS | SILVA-AVINA, EMMANUEL | 2673 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialCanon Kabusiki Kaisha has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Emmanuel Silva-Avina has the most, with 1 of Canon Kabusiki Kaisha's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
