Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Huanic Corporation currently manages 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This prosecution activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a singular focus for the company's current patent filings. In the broad field of communications, this suggests a very specific technical application or a limited number of active patent families.
SURAFEL YILMAKASSAYE is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action under review. This 1 busiest examiner pending action accounts for the entire pending workload of the portfolio. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate success in obtaining patent rights depends on the specific examination criteria of this individual. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company is not currently managing filings across multiple communications-related examination groups at the USPTO.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YILMAKASSAYE, SURAFEL | 1 | 57.4% | +37.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18715844 | SIGHT SYSTEM BASED ON FUSION OF INFRARED IMAGING, LOW-ILLUMINATION IMAGING, AND LED SIGHT LIGHT DOT, AND SIGHT HAVING THERMAL IMAGING FUNCTION | YILMAKASSAYE, SURAFEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2639 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18715844 | SIGHT SYSTEM BASED ON FUSION OF INFRARED IMAGING, LOW-ILLUMINATION IMAGING, AND LED SIGHT LIGHT DOT, AND SIGHT HAVING THERMAL IMAGING FUNCTION | YILMAKASSAYE, SURAFEL | 2639 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHuanic Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Surafel Yilmakassaye has the most, with 1 of Huanic Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
