Technology area: Communications
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cognex Corporation has 5 pending office actions in Communications. The matters are distributed among 5 examiners and 5 art units, so each pending matter appears to require an individual prosecution plan.
GARCES-RIVERA, ANGEL L is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The absence of a concentrated examiner workload makes consistent internal claim-positioning and response review particularly useful across the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 3 (50%) |
| §102 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARCES-RIVERA, ANGEL L | 1 | 81.5% | +9.8% |
| VAZ, JANICE EZVI | 1 | 76.3% | +20.3% |
| MILLER, RONDE LEE | 1 | 75.0% | +21.9% |
| HANCE, ROBERT J | 1 | 66.4% | +21.7% |
| HUANG, WEN | 1 | 82.0% | +22.7% |
| YANG, JIANXUN | 1 | 74.3% | +19.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19028780 | Systems and Methods for Stitching Sequential Images of an Object | GARCES-RIVERA, ANGEL L | — |
| 18417651 | Lens Assembly and Thermal Correction for Machine Vision System | HUANG, WEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18864217 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FIELD CALIBRATION OF A VISION SYSTEM | VAZ, JANICE EZVI | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17850802 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSIGNING A SYMBOL TO AN OBJECT | YANG, JIANXUN | 8d overdue |
| 18864217 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FIELD CALIBRATION OF A VISION SYSTEM | VAZ, JANICE EZVI | — |
| 18864223 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC TESTING OF A MACHINE VISION SYSTEM | MILLER, RONDE LEE | — |
| 18891849 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) INSPECTION | HANCE, ROBERT J | — |
| 18417651 | Lens Assembly and Thermal Correction for Machine Vision System | HUANG, WEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2637 | 1 |
| 2667 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| 3992 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19028780 | Systems and Methods for Stitching Sequential Images of an Object | GARCES-RIVERA, ANGEL L | 2637 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18864217 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FIELD CALIBRATION OF A VISION SYSTEM | VAZ, JANICE EZVI | 2667 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18864223 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC TESTING OF A MACHINE VISION SYSTEM | MILLER, RONDE LEE | 2663 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18891849 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) INSPECTION | HANCE, ROBERT J | 3992 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18417651 | Lens Assembly and Thermal Correction for Machine Vision System | HUANG, WEN | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 17850802 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSIGNING A SYMBOL TO AN OBJECT | YANG, JIANXUN | 2662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Jun 27, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCognex Corporation has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Angel L Garces-Rivera has the most, with 1 of Cognex Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
