Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
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
Fairchild Imaging Inc. currently has 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These cases are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, with SALAZ, SAMMANTHA KATELYN identified as the busiest examiner holding 1 pending action. This means the 3 pending matters are each assigned to a different individual, spreading the workload across multiple personnel.
The prosecution activity spans 3 distinct art units, matching the number of 3 distinct examiners and 3 pending office actions. This indicates a technical footprint that is as wide as the number of cases. With 3 pending office actions in 3 different art units, the company must adapt its prosecution strategy to the specific standards of three different technical groups within the patent office. Practitioners should prepare for 3 distinct examiner interactions across these 3 distinct art units in the Communications sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (67%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SALAZ, SAMMANTHA KATELYN | 1 | 87.1% | +10.5% |
| GILES, NICHOLAS G | 1 | 81.9% | +16.7% |
| DEPALMA, CAROLINE ELIZABETH | 1 | 90.2% | +6.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18448452 | TECHNIQUES FOR LOW-LIGHT IMAGING | DEPALMA, CAROLINE ELIZABETH | 49d |
| 18438600 | IMAGE SENSOR PIXEL DESIGN | SALAZ, SAMMANTHA KATELYN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18525093 | MULTIPLE PIXEL BINNING WITH GLOBAL SHUTTER OPERATION | GILES, NICHOLAS G | 141d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18525093 | MULTIPLE PIXEL BINNING WITH GLOBAL SHUTTER OPERATION | GILES, NICHOLAS G | 141d overdue |
| 18438600 | IMAGE SENSOR PIXEL DESIGN | SALAZ, SAMMANTHA KATELYN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2892 | 1 |
| 2639 | 1 |
| 2675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18438600 | IMAGE SENSOR PIXEL DESIGN | SALAZ, SAMMANTHA KATELYN | 2892 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18525093 | MULTIPLE PIXEL BINNING WITH GLOBAL SHUTTER OPERATION | GILES, NICHOLAS G | 2639 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 141d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18448452 | TECHNIQUES FOR LOW-LIGHT IMAGING | DEPALMA, CAROLINE ELIZABETH | 2675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFairchild Imaging Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Sammantha Katelyn Salaz has the most, with 1 of Fairchild Imaging Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
