Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
ICOM Incorporated manages 2 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners. The portfolio is also divided among 2 distinct art units, reflecting a variety of technical focuses within the networking and security fields.
SAMARA, LOUIS is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. For a practitioner, this data shows a balanced distribution of work where no single examiner or art unit dominates the pending portfolio. The presence of 2 distinct examiners means that the practitioner must prepare for different examination styles simultaneously.
With 2 distinct art units involved, the prosecution may be subject to different internal guidelines or technical standards. This diversity, even on a small scale, provides some insulation against the specific tendencies of a single examiner. The 1 busiest examiner pending action for SAMARA, LOUIS indicates that the workload is spread across the available examiners in the Networking & Security area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAMARA, LOUIS | 1 | 94.7% | +6.5% |
| YI, ALEXANDER J. | 1 | 68.6% | +55.1% |
| ZHAO, WEI | 1 | 89.5% | +15.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18787099 | RADIO STATION AND CARRIER SENSING METHOD | SAMARA, LOUIS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18621341 | A WIRELESS DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR CHANGE A VOLUME OF THE WIRELESS DEVICE | YI, ALEXANDER J. | 34d |
| 18620234 | RADIO DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ZHAO, WEI | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18621341 | A WIRELESS DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR CHANGE A VOLUME OF THE WIRELESS DEVICE | YI, ALEXANDER J. | 34d |
| 18620234 | RADIO DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ZHAO, WEI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2476 | 1 |
| 2643 | 1 |
| 2479 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18787099 | RADIO STATION AND CARRIER SENSING METHOD | SAMARA, LOUIS | 2476 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18621341 | A WIRELESS DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR CHANGE A VOLUME OF THE WIRELESS DEVICE | YI, ALEXANDER J. | 2643 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18620234 | RADIO DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ZHAO, WEI | 2479 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialICOM Incorporated has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Louis Samara has the most, with 1 of ICOM Incorporated's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
