Technology area: Communications
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hid Global Corp. has 6 pending office actions in Communications. Each action is assigned to a separate examiner and art unit, so the docket has no repeated examiner or technical-unit assignment in the supplied data.
MUNION, JAMES E is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Counsel should tailor prosecution strategy to each matter rather than rely on a shared examiner approach.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 4 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUNION, JAMES E | 1 | 77.4% | +22.9% |
| CESE, KENNY A | 1 | 75.2% | +11.0% |
| HALEY, JOSEPH R | 1 | 79.1% | +7.4% |
| NORDMEYER, PATRICIA L | 1 | 56.5% | +37.1% |
| LEE, BENEDICT E | 1 | 87.8% | +13.1% |
| PREVIL, DANIEL | 1 | 85.8% | +12.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18502326 | WEARABLE BIOMETRIC SENSORS | PREVIL, DANIEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18874953 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING POSSESSION OF MOBILE DEVICES HOLDING DIGITAL CREDENTIAL | CESE, KENNY A | — |
| 18541718 | SWITCHING PLATES IN AN OPTICAL SYSTEM | LEE, BENEDICT E | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18788549 | MEMBRANE FOR PLATEN OF OPTICAL BIOMETRIC SENSOR | NORDMEYER, PATRICIA L | 20d |
| 19324904 | EYE-GAZE BASED INTELLIGENT DOOR OPENING SYSTEM | MUNION, JAMES E | — |
| 18874953 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING POSSESSION OF MOBILE DEVICES HOLDING DIGITAL CREDENTIAL | CESE, KENNY A | — |
| 18541718 | SWITCHING PLATES IN AN OPTICAL SYSTEM | LEE, BENEDICT E | — |
| 18502326 | WEARABLE BIOMETRIC SENSORS | PREVIL, DANIEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| 2621 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 2665 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19324904 | EYE-GAZE BASED INTELLIGENT DOOR OPENING SYSTEM | MUNION, JAMES E | 2688 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 18874953 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING POSSESSION OF MOBILE DEVICES HOLDING DIGITAL CREDENTIAL | CESE, KENNY A | 2663 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18867934 | ENROLLMENT, IDENTIFICATION, AND/OR VERIFICATION FOR A BIOMETRIC SECURITY SYSTEM | HALEY, JOSEPH R | 2621 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18788549 | MEMBRANE FOR PLATEN OF OPTICAL BIOMETRIC SENSOR | NORDMEYER, PATRICIA L | 1788 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18541718 | SWITCHING PLATES IN AN OPTICAL SYSTEM | LEE, BENEDICT E | 2665 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18502326 | WEARABLE BIOMETRIC SENSORS | PREVIL, DANIEL | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHid Global Corp. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
James E Munion has the most, with 1 of Hid Global Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
