Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Elemental Machines Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 3 examiners and 2 art units, showing examiner diversity with some concentration in the technical classification structure.
TRAN, TRAN M. is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate the portfolio at the art-unit level while tailoring responses to the separate examiner 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, TRAN M. | 1 | 75.0% | +23.1% |
| HAWKINS, DOMINIC E | 1 | 87.0% | +12.1% |
| PENDLETON, DIONNE | 1 | 69.8% | +15.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18953346 | Method and apparatus for local sensing | TRAN, TRAN M. | — |
| 18938433 | Method and Apparatus for Noninvasive Determination of Utilization | HAWKINS, DOMINIC E | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18026990 | Method and system for contextual notification | PENDLETON, DIONNE | 120d overdue |
| 18953346 | Method and apparatus for local sensing | TRAN, TRAN M. | — |
| 18938433 | Method and Apparatus for Noninvasive Determination of Utilization | HAWKINS, DOMINIC E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18953346 | Method and apparatus for local sensing | TRAN, TRAN M. | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18938433 | Method and Apparatus for Noninvasive Determination of Utilization | HAWKINS, DOMINIC E | 2858 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18026990 | Method and system for contextual notification | PENDLETON, DIONNE | 2689 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 120d overdue | Pending | Mar 17, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialElemental Machines Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Tran M. Tran has the most, with 1 of Elemental Machines Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
