Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Future Technology (Xiangyang) Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These matters are distributed between 2 distinct examiners, which provides the company with independent reviews for each application. This distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's communications technology involves different technical sub-specialties.
CLOTHIER, MATTHEW MORRIS is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is evenly split, as CLOTHIER, MATTHEW MORRIS handles exactly half of the active matters. This arrangement prevents any single examiner from having a disproportionate impact on the company's overall patent strategy.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates a varied technical focus within the Communications sector. CLOTHIER, MATTHEW MORRIS manages 1 pending office action, matching the workload of the other examiner involved. This balanced prosecution profile across 2 distinct examiners allows the company to navigate different examiner preferences and technical requirements simultaneously.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLOTHIER, MATTHEW MORRIS | 1 | 83.3% | +20.0% |
| WELCH, DAVID T | 1 | 81.4% | +26.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18989323 | 3D IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER DEVICE | CLOTHIER, MATTHEW MORRIS | — |
| 18987044 | 3D IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, COMPUTER DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM | WELCH, DAVID T | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18989323 | 3D IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER DEVICE | CLOTHIER, MATTHEW MORRIS | — |
| 18987044 | 3D IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, COMPUTER DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM | WELCH, DAVID T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2614 | 1 |
| 2613 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18989323 | 3D IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER DEVICE | CLOTHIER, MATTHEW MORRIS | 2614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18987044 | 3D IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, COMPUTER DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM | WELCH, DAVID T | 2613 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFuture Technology (Xiangyang) Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Matthew Morris Clothier has the most, with 1 of Future Technology (Xiangyang) Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
