Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Connectfree Corporation

8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

4
Hard (50%)
4
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (50%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (50%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
5
Information Tech
62% of docket
1
Communications
12% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
12% of docket
1
Business / Other
12% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SHIN, KYUNG H 1 82.0% +10.5%
JIANG, YONG HANG 1 61.8% +20.8%
FIORILLO, JAMES N 1 86.0% +35.8%
JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT 1 86.8% +15.2%
MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY 1 64.1% +33.7%
BERMAN, STEPHEN DAVID 1 78.4% +58.3%
LANIER, BENJAMIN E 1 69.3% +17.3%
LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D 1 58.6% +55.1%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18393835 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT 16d overdue
19005894 COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK COMMUNICATION FIORILLO, JAMES N

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17428941 DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSING PROGRAM LANIER, BENJAMIN E 36d overdue
17293316 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR NETWORK ADDRESS PROVISION LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D 30d overdue
19087429 INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD SHIN, KYUNG H
17631211 BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION GATHERING SYSTEM AND WEARABLE DEVICE MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17428941 DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSING PROGRAM LANIER, BENJAMIN E 36d overdue
17293316 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR NETWORK ADDRESS PROVISION LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D 30d overdue
18393835 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT 16d overdue
19087429 INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD SHIN, KYUNG H
19042312 GATE OPENING METHOD AND DOOR UNLOCKING METHOD USING PORTABLE TERMINAL NETWORK ADDRESS JIANG, YONG HANG
19005894 COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK COMMUNICATION FIORILLO, JAMES N
17631211 BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION GATHERING SYSTEM AND WEARABLE DEVICE MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY
17613452 COMPUTING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD BERMAN, STEPHEN DAVID

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2493 2
2689 1
2444 1
3794 1
2192 1
2437 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19087429 INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD SHIN, KYUNG H §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 21, 2025
19042312 GATE OPENING METHOD AND DOOR UNLOCKING METHOD USING PORTABLE TERMINAL NETWORK ADDRESS JIANG, YONG HANG 2689 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 31, 2025
19005894 COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK COMMUNICATION FIORILLO, JAMES N 2444 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 30, 2024
18393835 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT 2493 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2023
17631211 BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION GATHERING SYSTEM AND WEARABLE DEVICE MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY 3794 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 28, 2022
17613452 COMPUTING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD BERMAN, STEPHEN DAVID 2192 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 22, 2021
17428941 DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSING PROGRAM LANIER, BENJAMIN E 2437 §103§112 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Aug 05, 2021
17293316 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR NETWORK ADDRESS PROVISION LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D 2493 §103§112 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending May 12, 2021

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