Technology area: Communications
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Duelight LLC has 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These applications are assigned to 3 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each of the active cases is being processed independently by a different examiner in a different specialized unit. Practitioners will need to manage separate prosecution tracks, each governed by the specific practices of the 3 distinct art units involved.
DAGNEW, MEKONNEN D is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. Since there is a unique examiner for each of the 3 pending office actions, no single individual oversees more than one application. The use of 3 distinct art units indicates that the Communications technology being patented is varied enough to trigger different classification areas. Practitioners should tailor their responses to the specific standards of each art unit. This decentralized environment requires a customized strategy for the 3 pending office actions to ensure successful outcomes.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 3 (60%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JERABEK, KELLY L | 2 | 85.4% | +11.3% |
| DAGNEW, MEKONNEN D | 1 | 83.6% | +15.4% |
| TSAI, TSUNG YIN | 1 | 81.6% | +11.6% |
| MOTSINGER, SEAN T | 1 | 78.6% | +11.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19308073 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIGH-DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGES | JERABEK, KELLY L | — |
| 19248287 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A DIGITAL IMAGE | DAGNEW, MEKONNEN D | — |
| 19025885 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR EXCHANGING IMAGES | TSAI, TSUNG YIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19308102 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A DIGITAL IMAGE | JERABEK, KELLY L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19308102 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A DIGITAL IMAGE | JERABEK, KELLY L | — |
| 19308073 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIGH-DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGES | JERABEK, KELLY L | — |
| 19248287 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A DIGITAL IMAGE | DAGNEW, MEKONNEN D | — |
| 19025885 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR EXCHANGING IMAGES | TSAI, TSUNG YIN | — |
| 19025870 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | MOTSINGER, SEAN T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2637 | 3 |
| 2656 | 1 |
| 2673 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19308102 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A DIGITAL IMAGE | JERABEK, KELLY L | 2637 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2025 |
| 19308073 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIGH-DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGES | JERABEK, KELLY L | 2637 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2025 |
| 19248287 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A DIGITAL IMAGE | DAGNEW, MEKONNEN D | 2637 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19025885 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR EXCHANGING IMAGES | TSAI, TSUNG YIN | 2656 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19025870 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY | MOTSINGER, SEAN T | 2673 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialDuelight LLC has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Kelly L Jerabek has the most, with 2 of Duelight LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
