Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Institut De Física D'Altes Energies (Ifae) is presently engaged in the prosecution of 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which centralizes the company's legal interactions at the USPTO. Such a pipeline suggests a specific focus for the company's current patenting efforts.
The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the subject matter falls under a specific technical category. BURGDORF, STEPHEN R is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the active workload of the portfolio, creating a link between the applicant and a specific reviewer.
For a practitioner, this structure means that the success of the current prosecution depends on the feedback from BURGDORF, STEPHEN R. The absence of multiple examiners simplifies the strategy, as there is no need to reconcile different examination styles. Instead, the focus remains on the 1 pending office action and the requirements of the assigned examiner within that 1 distinct art unit.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURGDORF, STEPHEN R | 1 | 64.1% | +43.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18027279 | DEVICE FOR PASSIVE DETECTION OF EVENTS | BURGDORF, STEPHEN R | 62d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18027279 | DEVICE FOR PASSIVE DETECTION OF EVENTS | BURGDORF, STEPHEN R | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Mar 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialInstitut De Física D'Altes Energies (Ifae) has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Stephen R Burgdorf has the most, with 1 of Institut De Física D'Altes Energies (Ifae)'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
