Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Exfo Inc. is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. Each of these 4 pending office actions is assigned to a different individual, resulting in a total of 4 distinct examiners for the portfolio. This distribution is mirrored in the departmental structure, as the portfolio also spans 4 distinct art units, ensuring that each pending matter is being reviewed by a unique technical group.
SINGH, DALZID E is listed as the busiest examiner for the company, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the 4 pending office actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, the company must navigate 4 separate sets of examination preferences and technical interpretations. This diversity within the Communications sector means that the company's prosecution strategy must be highly individualized for each application, as there is no overlap in the personnel or art units reviewing the current workload.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SINGH, DALZID E | 1 | 90.9% | +6.8% |
| LUU, THANH X | 1 | 78.3% | +10.2% |
| WANG, QUAN ZHEN | 1 | 51.0% | +24.9% |
| TAN, DAVID H | 1 | 32.1% | +16.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18969857 | Systems and methods for proactively detecting faulty optical fibers using OTDR data, environmental data, and machine learning | SINGH, DALZID E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18891340 | PINCH DETECTION USING REAL-TIME OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY | LUU, THANH X | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17648876 | PEAK SELECTION ASSISTANCE FOR RF SPECTRUM ANALYSIS | TAN, DAVID H | 189d overdue |
| 18891340 | PINCH DETECTION USING REAL-TIME OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY | LUU, THANH X | — |
| 18777215 | CHROMATIC DISPERSION MEASUREMENT | WANG, QUAN ZHEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2635 | 1 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| 2145 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18969857 | Systems and methods for proactively detecting faulty optical fibers using OTDR data, environmental data, and machine learning | SINGH, DALZID E | 2635 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18891340 | PINCH DETECTION USING REAL-TIME OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY | LUU, THANH X | 2878 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18777215 | CHROMATIC DISPERSION MEASUREMENT | WANG, QUAN ZHEN | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 17648876 | PEAK SELECTION ASSISTANCE FOR RF SPECTRUM ANALYSIS | TAN, DAVID H | 2145 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 189d overdue | Pending | Jan 25, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialExfo Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Dalzid E Singh has the most, with 1 of Exfo Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
