Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
13 pending office actions • 11 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Figma Inc. currently has 14 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed among 14 distinct examiners and 11 distinct art units. The fact that there are 14 distinct examiners for 14 pending office actions means that every pending matter is being handled by a different person.
FLORES, ROBERTO W is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This reflects the broader trend where each of the 14 pending office actions is assigned to a unique examiner. With 11 distinct art units involved, the portfolio covers a range of software and computing technologies. FLORES, ROBERTO W handles 1 of these cases.
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 only | 1 (8%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (15%) |
| §103 only | 7 (54%) |
| §102 only | 2 (15%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLORES, ROBERTO W | 1 | 49.8% | +14.0% |
| ADAMS, CHARLES D | 1 | 44.9% | +43.4% |
| PHAM, LINH K | 1 | 80.9% | +28.8% |
| MCLEAN, NEIL R | 1 | 79.9% | +10.4% |
| ULRICH, NICHOLAS S | 1 | 69.3% | +8.0% |
| PARCHER, DANIEL W | 1 | 60.5% | +59.3% |
| NAHRA, SELENA SABAH | 1 | 76.9% | +54.5% |
| NGUYEN, MONGBAO | 1 | 85.9% | +41.8% |
| HEBERT, THEODORE E | 1 | 74.2% | +14.2% |
| SHENG, XIN | 1 | 73.2% | +16.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18991170 | COMMENTING FEATURE FOR GRAPHIC DESIGN SYSTEMS | PHAM, LINH K | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19063196 | FRAGMENT-BASED DESIGN SEARCH | ADAMS, CHARLES D | 34d |
| 18750594 | AUTOCOMPLETE FEATURE FOR CODE EDITOR | NGUYEN, MONGBAO | — |
| 17726251 | BRANCHING AND MERGING IN A DESIGN INTERFACE | DO, CHAT C | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19063196 | FRAGMENT-BASED DESIGN SEARCH | ADAMS, CHARLES D | 34d |
| 19337734 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING EVENTS IN BROWSER-BASED APPLICATIONS | FLORES, ROBERTO W | — |
| 18991170 | COMMENTING FEATURE FOR GRAPHIC DESIGN SYSTEMS | PHAM, LINH K | — |
| 18893061 | INTERACTIVE VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF SEMANTICALLY RELATED EXTRACTED DATA | MCLEAN, NEIL R | — |
| 18765145 | CURSOR TEXT REPRESENTATION OF USER IN A COLLABORATIVE PLATFORM | PARCHER, DANIEL W | — |
| 18750279 | UNIFIED REST API FOR GRAPHIC DESIGN SYSTEM | NAHRA, SELENA SABAH | — |
| 18750594 | AUTOCOMPLETE FEATURE FOR CODE EDITOR | NGUYEN, MONGBAO | — |
| 18750948 | DYNAMICALLY GENERATING CODE FOR IMPLEMENTING A DESIGN COMPONENT IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT | HEBERT, THEODORE E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2174 | 2 |
| 2192 | 2 |
| 2621 | 1 |
| 2165 | 1 |
| 2681 | 1 |
| 2179 | 1 |
| 2199 | 1 |
| 2619 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 2193 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19337734 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING EVENTS IN BROWSER-BASED APPLICATIONS | FLORES, ROBERTO W | 2621 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2025 |
| 19063196 | FRAGMENT-BASED DESIGN SEARCH | ADAMS, CHARLES D | 2165 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 18991170 | COMMENTING FEATURE FOR GRAPHIC DESIGN SYSTEMS | PHAM, LINH K | 2174 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18893061 | INTERACTIVE VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF SEMANTICALLY RELATED EXTRACTED DATA | MCLEAN, NEIL R | 2681 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18819244 | NATIVE INTERACTION LAYER FOR A COLLABORATION PLATFORM | ULRICH, NICHOLAS S | 2179 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18765145 | CURSOR TEXT REPRESENTATION OF USER IN A COLLABORATIVE PLATFORM | PARCHER, DANIEL W | 2174 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18750279 | UNIFIED REST API FOR GRAPHIC DESIGN SYSTEM | NAHRA, SELENA SABAH | 2192 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18750594 | AUTOCOMPLETE FEATURE FOR CODE EDITOR | NGUYEN, MONGBAO | 2192 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18750948 | DYNAMICALLY GENERATING CODE FOR IMPLEMENTING A DESIGN COMPONENT IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT | HEBERT, THEODORE E | 2199 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18749359 | GRAPHIC DESIGN SYSTEM UTILIZING VARIABLE DATA STRUCTURES FOR MULTI-STATE DESIGN ELEMENTS | SHENG, XIN | 2619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18748965 | GRAPHIC DESIGN CODE GENERATION PLUGIN SYSTEM | NOOR, TUBBA | 4100 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 17726251 | BRANCHING AND MERGING IN A DESIGN INTERFACE | DO, CHAT C | 2193 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2022 |
| 17530413 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY IMPLEMENTING LAYOUT CONFIGURATIONS AMONGST OBJECT GROUPINGS OF A DESIGN UNDER EDIT | KEATON, SHERROD L | 2148 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialFigma Inc. has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 11 art units and 13 examiners.
Roberto W Flores has the most, with 1 of Figma Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
