Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Frequentis AG operates in the Computing & Software technology area. The company has 1 pending office action currently active. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, DISTEFANO, GREGORY A. This concentration indicates that the company's current engagement with the patent office is focused on 1 technical disclosure within the computing field.
The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit. DISTEFANO, GREGORY A is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. This 1 action and 1 examiner represent the entire current pending workload for the company's portfolio. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy is centralized. The success of the current portfolio depends on navigating the specific requirements of 1 art unit and the individual review style of DISTEFANO, GREGORY A.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DISTEFANO, GREGORY A | 1 | 69.6% | +22.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18541231 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR TEXT-BASED COMMUNICATION | DISTEFANO, GREGORY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2174 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18541231 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR TEXT-BASED COMMUNICATION | DISTEFANO, GREGORY A | 2174 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFrequentis AG has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Gregory A Distefano has the most, with 1 of Frequentis AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
