Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dot Incorporation has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing separate examiner assignments with some concentration at the art unit level.
BODENDORF, ANDREW is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can coordinate the shared device technology across the portfolio while tailoring responses to the two examination units and their individual records.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BODENDORF, ANDREW | 1 | 29.6% | +36.2% |
| ZUBAJLO, JENNIFER L | 1 | 70.4% | +22.8% |
| ELISCA, PIERRE E | 1 | 90.2% | +6.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17994315 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COMPLEX INFORMATION INCLUDING BRAILLE INFORMATION AND VOICE INFORMATION | ELISCA, PIERRE E | 191d overdue |
| 19118006 | INFORMATION OUTPUT DEVICE | BODENDORF, ANDREW | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19118006 | INFORMATION OUTPUT DEVICE | BODENDORF, ANDREW | — |
| 18651287 | INFORMATION OUTPUT DEVICE | ZUBAJLO, JENNIFER L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| 2627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19118006 | INFORMATION OUTPUT DEVICE | BODENDORF, ANDREW | 3715 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 18651287 | INFORMATION OUTPUT DEVICE | ZUBAJLO, JENNIFER L | 2627 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 17994315 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COMPLEX INFORMATION INCLUDING BRAILLE INFORMATION AND VOICE INFORMATION | ELISCA, PIERRE E | 3715 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 191d overdue | Pending | Nov 26, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialDot Incorporation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Andrew Bodendorf has the most, with 1 of Dot Incorporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
