Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cesiumastro Inc. maintains a patent portfolio within the Communications technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions that require a response. The presence of 2 pending office actions indicates the current scale of the company's engagement with the patent office.
The workload is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. Because the company is dealing with 2 distinct art units, the legal strategy must be adaptable to different technical standards and examination cultures. The presence of 2 distinct examiners means that the company cannot rely on an individual relationship or point of contact to resolve its 2 pending office actions.
FERGUSON, KEITH is identified as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This specific action is part of the total workload the company must address. Practitioners should note that while FERGUSON, KEITH is the busiest, the workload is distributed, as the 1 busiest examiner pending office action is joined by a separate action held by a different examiner.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERGUSON, KEITH | 1 | 86.3% | +8.5% |
| MULL, FRED H | 1 | 67.8% | +15.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17474890 | Temporally and Geographically Adaptive Satellite Constellation Network Management | FERGUSON, KEITH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16711283 | Controller Configured to Improve DC Power Consumption of Phased Array Antennas | MULL, FRED H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16711283 | Controller Configured to Improve DC Power Consumption of Phased Array Antennas | MULL, FRED H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2648 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17474890 | Temporally and Geographically Adaptive Satellite Constellation Network Management | FERGUSON, KEITH | 2648 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2021 |
| 16711283 | Controller Configured to Improve DC Power Consumption of Phased Array Antennas | MULL, FRED H | 3648 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialCesiumastro Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Keith Ferguson has the most, with 1 of Cesiumastro Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
