Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
FARO Technologies Inc. has 8 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 7 distinct examiners across 6 art units, indicating a broadly distributed docket with some repeated examiner coverage.
XIAO, YUQING is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending actions. That examiner provides a limited concentration point for comparing prosecution issues, while the remaining matters require separate examination of their technical and claim records.
Portfolio management should maintain consistent treatment of communication-system terminology and specification support. The spread across units also makes examiner-specific review important when selecting amendments, arguments, or interview priorities.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (12%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| XIAO, YUQING | 2 | 60.5% | +27.7% |
| RICHER, AARON M | 1 | 52.2% | +20.7% |
| LEE, PAUL D | 1 | 83.0% | +14.8% |
| TRAN, PHUOC | 1 | 85.4% | +8.8% |
| RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | 1 | 87.2% | +10.4% |
| COFINO, JONATHAN M | 1 | 63.0% | +31.9% |
| HOCKER, JOHN PAUL | 1 | 55.9% | +30.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18632564 | IMAGE ACQUISITION FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) COORDINATE MEASUREMENT DEVICES | TRAN, PHUOC | — |
| 18514898 | METHOD OF OPERATING A COORDINATE MEASUREMENT DEVICE | RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18131596 | LASER SCANNER FOR VERIFYING POSITIONING OF COMPONENTS OF ASSEMBLIES | XIAO, YUQING | 36d |
| 18778334 | MEASURING THE POSITION OF A MIRROR SURFACE IN POINT CLOUDS CAPTURED BY A SCANNER | LEE, PAUL D | — |
| 18106842 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMBINING THREE DIMENSIONAL DATA | HOCKER, JOHN PAUL | — |
| 17330721 | CAPTURING ENVIRONMENTAL SCANS USING ANCHOR OBJECTS FOR REGISTRATION | XIAO, YUQING | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19062827 | GENERATING GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS FOR VIEWING 3D DATA AND/OR IMAGE DATA | RICHER, AARON M | 44d overdue |
| 18447617 | GAP FILLING FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA VISUALIZATION | COFINO, JONATHAN M | 36d overdue |
| 18131596 | LASER SCANNER FOR VERIFYING POSITIONING OF COMPONENTS OF ASSEMBLIES | XIAO, YUQING | 36d |
| 18778334 | MEASURING THE POSITION OF A MIRROR SURFACE IN POINT CLOUDS CAPTURED BY A SCANNER | LEE, PAUL D | — |
| 18514898 | METHOD OF OPERATING A COORDINATE MEASUREMENT DEVICE | RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | — |
| 18106842 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMBINING THREE DIMENSIONAL DATA | HOCKER, JOHN PAUL | — |
| 17330721 | CAPTURING ENVIRONMENTAL SCANS USING ANCHOR OBJECTS FOR REGISTRATION | XIAO, YUQING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 3 |
| 2617 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| 2614 | 1 |
| 2189 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19062827 | GENERATING GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS FOR VIEWING 3D DATA AND/OR IMAGE DATA | RICHER, AARON M | 2617 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 18778334 | MEASURING THE POSITION OF A MIRROR SURFACE IN POINT CLOUDS CAPTURED BY A SCANNER | LEE, PAUL D | 2857 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18632564 | IMAGE ACQUISITION FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) COORDINATE MEASUREMENT DEVICES | TRAN, PHUOC | 2668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18514898 | METHOD OF OPERATING A COORDINATE MEASUREMENT DEVICE | RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | 3645 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18447617 | GAP FILLING FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA VISUALIZATION | COFINO, JONATHAN M | 2614 | §112 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18131596 | LASER SCANNER FOR VERIFYING POSITIONING OF COMPONENTS OF ASSEMBLIES | XIAO, YUQING | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Apr 06, 2023 |
| 18106842 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMBINING THREE DIMENSIONAL DATA | HOCKER, JOHN PAUL | 2189 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2023 |
| 17330721 | CAPTURING ENVIRONMENTAL SCANS USING ANCHOR OBJECTS FOR REGISTRATION | XIAO, YUQING | 3645 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialFARO Technologies Inc. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 7 examiners.
Yuqing Xiao has the most, with 2 of FARO Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
