Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Freqport Pty Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, PATEL, HEMANT SHANTILAL, in 1 distinct art unit. PATEL, HEMANT SHANTILAL is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Prosecution for this portfolio is currently limited to this single action, placing all emphasis on the interaction with this one examiner.
The 1 pending office action is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit, which will apply specific Communications technology area standards to the case. Practitioners should focus on the individual preferences of PATEL, HEMANT SHANTILAL to ensure a favorable outcome. Since there are no other pending office actions, the company's entire patent prosecution profile is defined by this one matter. Successfully navigating this 1 pending office action is the current priority for the company's intellectual property strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, HEMANT SHANTILAL | 1 | 81.3% | +13.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18941782 | Method and Apparatus for Control and Transfer of Audio Between Analog and Computer in Digital Audio Processing | PATEL, HEMANT SHANTILAL | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18941782 | Method and Apparatus for Control and Transfer of Audio Between Analog and Computer in Digital Audio Processing | PATEL, HEMANT SHANTILAL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2694 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18941782 | Method and Apparatus for Control and Transfer of Audio Between Analog and Computer in Digital Audio Processing | PATEL, HEMANT SHANTILAL | 2694 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFreqport Pty Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Hemant Shantilal Patel has the most, with 1 of Freqport Pty Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.