Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hitachi Rail Sts S P A currently manages 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a highly concentrated prosecution environment. By working with only 1 distinct examiner, the company can focus its legal strategy on a single set of procedural expectations and examination preferences.
The prosecution is further localized within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the company's innovations are situated in a specific technical niche. FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio and is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's active office actions at the patent office.
For a practitioner, the presence of 1 busiest examiner pending action under FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS means that the timeline for the portfolio is entirely dependent on this individual's review. The focus remains on the 1 pending office action and the specific standards of the 1 distinct art unit. This structure allows for a targeted approach without the complexity of coordinating across different patent office divisions.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | 1 | 71.7% | +30.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18713489 | TRACKING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A TRANSPORTATION NETWORK | FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18713489 | TRACKING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A TRANSPORTATION NETWORK | FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18713489 | TRACKING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A TRANSPORTATION NETWORK | FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | 2633 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHitachi Rail Sts S P A has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Aristocratis Fotakis has the most, with 1 of Hitachi Rail Sts S P A's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
