Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ess-Help Inc. has 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners in the Communications technology area. These matters are spread across a corresponding number of art units, indicating a diverse examination environment despite the small volume of 3 pending office actions. The busiest examiner, AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D, is responsible for 1 pending office action.
For practitioners, this distribution suggests that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the specific preferences of these individuals. There is no personnel overlap to provide a consistent baseline for the portfolio, requiring a unique approach for each pending matter.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 1 | 65.4% | +13.7% |
| SHAFI, MUHAMMAD | 1 | 88.9% | +16.9% |
| PHAM, QUANG | 1 | 54.4% | +57.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18890063 | SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION OF HAZARDOUS VEHICLE AND ROAD CONDITIONS | SHAFI, MUHAMMAD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18238809 | VEHICLE DIGITAL ALERTING SYSTEM | PHAM, QUANG | 42d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18238809 | VEHICLE DIGITAL ALERTING SYSTEM | PHAM, QUANG | 42d |
| 19212092 | ENCHANCED OPTICAL EMERGENCY SIGNALING AND COMMUNICATIONS FOR TRAILERS | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | — |
| 18890063 | SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION OF HAZARDOUS VEHICLE AND ROAD CONDITIONS | SHAFI, MUHAMMAD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19212092 | ENCHANCED OPTICAL EMERGENCY SIGNALING AND COMMUNICATIONS FOR TRAILERS | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 2686 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 18890063 | SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION OF HAZARDOUS VEHICLE AND ROAD CONDITIONS | SHAFI, MUHAMMAD | 3666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18238809 | VEHICLE DIGITAL ALERTING SYSTEM | PHAM, QUANG | 2685 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialEss-Help Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Anthony D Afrifa-Kyei has the most, with 1 of Ess-Help Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
