Technology area: Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cathworks Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are split among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. There is no overlap in the personnel or the specialized units reviewing these applications. With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the company must manage three separate prosecution tracks. The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests that the communications technology being patented is diverse enough to span multiple USPTO classifications.
RUDOLPH, VINCENT M is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending action. Because each of the 3 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different 1 of the 3 distinct examiners, there is no opportunity for a centralized negotiation strategy. The 3 distinct art units further isolate each case, as each examiner likely follows the specific guidelines of their own specialized group. Practitioners should treat each of the 3 pending office actions as an independent effort, as the lack of examiner or art unit overlap prevents the application of a unified prosecution approach across the current portfolio.
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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUDOLPH, VINCENT M | 1 | 47.2% | +41.2% |
| ANSARI, TAHMINA N | 1 | 85.4% | +18.5% |
| CHAN, CAROL WANG | 1 | 84.2% | +33.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19030247 | VASCULAR CHARACTERISTIC DETERMINATION WITH CORRESPONDENCE MODELING OF A VASCULAR TREE | ANSARI, TAHMINA N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18941745 | SYSTEM FOR VASCULAR ASSESSMENT | CHAN, CAROL WANG | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19258684 | CREATING A VASCULAR TREE MODEL | RUDOLPH, VINCENT M | — |
| 19030247 | VASCULAR CHARACTERISTIC DETERMINATION WITH CORRESPONDENCE MODELING OF A VASCULAR TREE | ANSARI, TAHMINA N | — |
| 18941745 | SYSTEM FOR VASCULAR ASSESSMENT | CHAN, CAROL WANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2673 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| 2672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19258684 | CREATING A VASCULAR TREE MODEL | RUDOLPH, VINCENT M | 2673 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19030247 | VASCULAR CHARACTERISTIC DETERMINATION WITH CORRESPONDENCE MODELING OF A VASCULAR TREE | ANSARI, TAHMINA N | 2674 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18941745 | SYSTEM FOR VASCULAR ASSESSMENT | CHAN, CAROL WANG | 2672 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCathworks Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Vincent M Rudolph has the most, with 1 of Cathworks Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
