Technology area: Communications
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Headway Technologies Inc. has 6 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating repeated assignments across both examiner relationships and technical classifications. That structure supports comparing response approaches among related matters.
RENNER, CRAIG A is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. This is a central feature of the profile and gives counsel a clear opportunity to review examiner-specific treatment, claim language, and response consistency. The remaining matters still require separate tracking because they are assigned outside that examiner relationship.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RENNER, CRAIG A | 3 | 84.3% | +17.5% |
| HINDI, NABIL Z | 1 | 87.4% | +8.9% |
| TRINH, MINH N | 1 | 85.5% | +9.6% |
| CHAU, LINDA N | 1 | 44.7% | +15.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19359507 | Noble Metal Coated Plasmonic Waveguide Blocker For Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording Head | HINDI, NABIL Z | — |
| 18384788 | Seamless Main Pole Electroplating For A Magnetic Recording Write Head | TRINH, MINH N | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18122362 | Self-Aligned Side Gap Insulator For A Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Writer | RENNER, CRAIG A | 23d |
| 18623991 | Spintronic Reader Utilizing The Inverse Spin Hall Effect | RENNER, CRAIG A | 34d |
| 19254928 | Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Writer with Tunable Two Bias Branches | RENNER, CRAIG A | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18122362 | Self-Aligned Side Gap Insulator For A Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Writer | RENNER, CRAIG A | 23d |
| 18623991 | Spintronic Reader Utilizing The Inverse Spin Hall Effect | RENNER, CRAIG A | 34d |
| 19254928 | Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Writer with Tunable Two Bias Branches | RENNER, CRAIG A | — |
| 17985698 | Gold-Copper Alloy In A Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording Writer | CHAU, LINDA N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 4 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19359507 | Noble Metal Coated Plasmonic Waveguide Blocker For Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording Head | HINDI, NABIL Z | 2688 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2025 |
| 19254928 | Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Writer with Tunable Two Bias Branches | RENNER, CRAIG A | 2688 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 18623991 | Spintronic Reader Utilizing The Inverse Spin Hall Effect | RENNER, CRAIG A | 2688 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18384788 | Seamless Main Pole Electroplating For A Magnetic Recording Write Head | TRINH, MINH N | 3729 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18122362 | Self-Aligned Side Gap Insulator For A Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Writer | RENNER, CRAIG A | 2688 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
| 17985698 | Gold-Copper Alloy In A Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording Writer | CHAU, LINDA N | 1785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialHeadway Technologies Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Craig A Renner has the most, with 3 of Headway Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
