Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Echomark Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. Prosecution is split across 2 distinct art units, showing that the company's current filings cover different technical aspects within the communications sector.
PHUOC TRAN is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is currently reviewing 1 matter. The presence of 2 distinct art units for 2 actions indicates that each pending matter is being examined in a different technical group, requiring separate prosecution approaches.
The company's 2 pending office actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, including PHUOC TRAN. This 1 to 1 ratio between actions and examiners, as well as actions and art units, means that there is no overlap in the personnel or the technical units reviewing these cases. Each of the 2 pending office actions is being treated as an independent matter in its own distinct art unit.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, PHUOC | 1 | 85.4% | +8.8% |
| BURLESON, MICHAEL L | 1 | 74.3% | -6.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18680538 | STRUCTURAL IMAGE MARKING TECHNIQUES FOR INFORMATION SECURITY AND SOURCE DETECTION | TRAN, PHUOC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2668 | 1 |
| 2681 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18680538 | STRUCTURAL IMAGE MARKING TECHNIQUES FOR INFORMATION SECURITY AND SOURCE DETECTION | TRAN, PHUOC | 2668 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18430439 | DOCUMENT SOURCE DETECTION USING BIGRAM SPACING | BURLESON, MICHAEL L | 2681 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialEchomark Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Phuoc Tran has the most, with 1 of Echomark Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
