Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Friendlybuzz Company Pbc has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The portfolio is distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter, so no single examiner or art unit accounts for more than one identified pending matter.
The distributed assignment favors a coordinated but application-specific prosecution plan. Counsel should use consistent mechanical and medical-device terminology across the filings, while adapting claim amendments and technical explanations to each examination record. A centralized review can identify recurring support or clarity issues, but the data does not indicate a repeated examiner relationship that would justify relying on one response approach for all matters.
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 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH | 1 | 89.7% | +7.4% |
| GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 22.0% | +7.1% |
| JOSHI, SURAJ M | 1 | 72.0% | +16.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18660113 | VOICE ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HOLDING A CONVERSATION WITH A PERSON | ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH | 89d overdue |
| 18660163 | INTERACTIVE AI TOY CAPABLE OF HOLDING A CONVERSATION WITH A PERSON, AND METHOD OF INTERACTING WITH SAME | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 44d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18563854 | METHOD OF MATCHING ANALYTICS AND COMMUNICATION ESTABLISHMENT | JOSHI, SURAJ M | 59d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2657 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 2447 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18660113 | VOICE ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HOLDING A CONVERSATION WITH A PERSON | ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH | 2657 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18660163 | INTERACTIVE AI TOY CAPABLE OF HOLDING A CONVERSATION WITH A PERSON, AND METHOD OF INTERACTING WITH SAME | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 3715 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18563854 | METHOD OF MATCHING ANALYTICS AND COMMUNICATION ESTABLISHMENT | JOSHI, SURAJ M | 2447 | §103 | Final Rejection | 59d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFriendlybuzz Company Pbc has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Daniel Demelash Abebe has the most, with 1 of Friendlybuzz Company Pbc's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
