Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Edcast Inc. operates a patent portfolio in the Communications technology area. The company currently has 3 pending office actions. This volume of active matters suggests a significant ongoing effort to secure patent rights, necessitating a strategy for responding to multiple examiner critiques across different technical sub-sectors.
The company's prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners across the distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's intellectual property is being evaluated across several different technical divisions. KATHLEEN M BROUGHTON is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This shows that the pending office actions are spread across the examination corps rather than being concentrated under one official.
The presence of the distinct examiners means that the company must navigate different individual examination styles. Because KATHLEEN M BROUGHTON only holds 1 busiest examiner pending action, no single examiner dominates the current workload. This variety in 3 distinct art units requires the applicant to maintain consistency in technical disclosures while addressing the specific requirements of multiple patent office divisions within the Communications sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | 1 | 84.4% | +10.3% |
| PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT | 1 | 15.2% | +12.9% |
| GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 22.0% | +7.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17364497 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF GUIDING A USER ON A GRAPHICAL INTERFACE WITH COMPUTER VISION | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | 15d overdue |
| 16412389 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHOWING, TESTING AND CERTIFYING USERS IN-APP ON CLOUD APPLICATION WORKFLOWS | PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT | — |
| 15992148 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANIMATED WALKTHROUGHS IN AN ONLINE EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17364497 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF GUIDING A USER ON A GRAPHICAL INTERFACE WITH COMPUTER VISION | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | 15d overdue |
| 16412389 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHOWING, TESTING AND CERTIFYING USERS IN-APP ON CLOUD APPLICATION WORKFLOWS | PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2661 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17364497 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF GUIDING A USER ON A GRAPHICAL INTERFACE WITH COMPUTER VISION | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | 2661 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2021 |
| 16412389 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHOWING, TESTING AND CERTIFYING USERS IN-APP ON CLOUD APPLICATION WORKFLOWS | PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT | 3629 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2019 |
| 15992148 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANIMATED WALKTHROUGHS IN AN ONLINE EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 3715 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 29, 2018 |
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Start Free TrialEdcast Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Kathleen M Broughton has the most, with 1 of Edcast Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
