Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hall Matthew has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, THOMAS, SOUMYA, in 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a singular focus for the company's current patent prosecution activities. The 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical subject matter is confined to one specific area of the patent office.
THOMAS, SOUMYA is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. This 1 action represents the total of 1 pending office actions currently active in the portfolio. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner, THOMAS, SOUMYA is the only person the company must interact with for its current Communications filings. Practitioners can concentrate their efforts on the 1 pending office action and the particular style of THOMAS, SOUMYA. This 1 pending office action is the only active case for Hall Matthew at this time.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS, SOUMYA | 1 | 66.7% | -25.0% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18437291 | A System for Tracking, Locating and Calculating the Position of a First Moving Object in Relation to a Second Object | THOMAS, SOUMYA | 2664 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHall Matthew has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Soumya Thomas has the most, with 1 of Hall Matthew's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
