Technology area: Communications
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hover Inc. has 8 pending office actions in Communications. The matters are assigned to 6 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, showing that the docket has separate technical placements even where examiner assignments may overlap.
COFINO, JONATHAN M is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That examiner represents the clearest concentration in the portfolio, making a consistent approach to recurring claim or prior-art issues particularly useful for those matters.
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 (12%) |
| §103 only | 4 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (25%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COFINO, JONATHAN M | 3 | 63.0% | +31.9% |
| MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | 1 | 86.6% | +13.0% |
| CHEN, FRANK S | 1 | 82.3% | +8.4% |
| PRINGLE-PARKER, JASON A | 1 | 83.7% | +13.8% |
| SHEN, QUN | 1 | 76.5% | +37.3% |
| CHOI, TIMOTHY WING HO | 1 | 60.0% | +35.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19045483 | 3-D Reconstruction Using Augmented Reality Frameworks | CHEN, FRANK S | — |
| 18880830 | METHODS, STORAGE MEDIA, AND SYSTEMS FOR COMBINING DISPARATE 3D MODELS OF A COMMON BUILDING OBJECT | PRINGLE-PARKER, JASON A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19053221 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING AND NAVIGATING AN OPTIMAL MULTI-DIMENSIONAL BUILDING MODEL | MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19053221 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING AND NAVIGATING AN OPTIMAL MULTI-DIMENSIONAL BUILDING MODEL | MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | — |
| 18880830 | METHODS, STORAGE MEDIA, AND SYSTEMS FOR COMBINING DISPARATE 3D MODELS OF A COMMON BUILDING OBJECT | PRINGLE-PARKER, JASON A | — |
| 18956755 | THRESHOLDS FOR CHANGE IDENTIFICATION WHEN COMPARING IMAGERY | COFINO, JONATHAN M | — |
| 18956807 | THRESHOLDS FOR CHANGE IDENTIFICATION WHEN COMPARING IMAGERY | COFINO, JONATHAN M | — |
| 18859062 | METHODS, STORAGE MEDIA, AND SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING AN ANGLE OF A ROOF FACET | SHEN, QUN | — |
| 18809268 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MODEL RECONSTRUCTION | COFINO, JONATHAN M | — |
| 18274717 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE CAPTURE | CHOI, TIMOTHY WING HO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2614 | 3 |
| 2612 | 1 |
| 2611 | 1 |
| 2617 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| 2671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19053221 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING AND NAVIGATING AN OPTIMAL MULTI-DIMENSIONAL BUILDING MODEL | MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | 2612 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 19045483 | 3-D Reconstruction Using Augmented Reality Frameworks | CHEN, FRANK S | 2611 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 18880830 | METHODS, STORAGE MEDIA, AND SYSTEMS FOR COMBINING DISPARATE 3D MODELS OF A COMMON BUILDING OBJECT | PRINGLE-PARKER, JASON A | 2617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18956755 | THRESHOLDS FOR CHANGE IDENTIFICATION WHEN COMPARING IMAGERY | COFINO, JONATHAN M | 2614 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18956807 | THRESHOLDS FOR CHANGE IDENTIFICATION WHEN COMPARING IMAGERY | COFINO, JONATHAN M | 2614 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18859062 | METHODS, STORAGE MEDIA, AND SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING AN ANGLE OF A ROOF FACET | SHEN, QUN | 2662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18809268 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MODEL RECONSTRUCTION | COFINO, JONATHAN M | 2614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18274717 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE CAPTURE | CHOI, TIMOTHY WING HO | 2671 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHover Inc. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Jonathan M Cofino has the most, with 3 of Hover Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
