Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Cox Communications Inc.

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due later (1)

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.

1
Hard (25%)
3
Medium (75%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (25%)
§103 only3 (75%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
50% of docket
1
Communications
25% of docket
1
Semiconductors
25% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, AN T 1 67.8% +18.5%
CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL 1 59.7% +36.9%
ANDERSON, MARGARET MARIE 1 70.0% +17.5%
SAINT CYR, JEAN D 1 60.3% +8.4%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18892127 DISINFECTANT MONITORING DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD NGUYEN, AN T 9d

Interview Candidates (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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18599847 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TESTING FIBER OPTIC CABLE INSTALLATION WITH A LIGHT GENERATOR CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL 60d overdue
18892127 DISINFECTANT MONITORING DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD NGUYEN, AN T 9d
18586082 MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL (MAC) ADDRESS ROTATION ANDERSON, MARGARET MARIE 12d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2686 1
2877 1
2412 1
2425 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18892127 DISINFECTANT MONITORING DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD NGUYEN, AN T 2686 §101 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Sep 20, 2024
18599847 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TESTING FIBER OPTIC CABLE INSTALLATION WITH A LIGHT GENERATOR CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL 2877 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2024
18586082 MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL (MAC) ADDRESS ROTATION ANDERSON, MARGARET MARIE 2412 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Feb 23, 2024
18417761 DYNAMIC SPLICE POINT ADJUSTMENT AND FEEDBACK FOR VIDEO SIGNALS SAINT CYR, JEAN D 2425 §103 Final Rejection 83d Pending Jan 19, 2024

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