Technology area: Communications
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Institut National De Recherche En Informatique Et En Automatique has 3 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners but only 1 distinct art unit, indicating examiner diversity within a common technical examination group.
ORANGE, DAVID BENJAMIN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The shared art-unit assignment supports centralized technical review, while the separate examiner assignments call for individualized response analysis.
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 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORANGE, DAVID BENJAMIN | 1 | 31.7% | +28.2% |
| RHIM, WOO CHUL | 1 | 78.9% | +21.0% |
| VANWORMER, SKYLAR K | 1 | 48.5% | +30.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18877465 | METHOD IMPLEMENTED BY COMPUTER MEANS FOR CHARACTERIZING AT LEAST ONE OBSERVATION OF A SUBJECT | RHIM, WOO CHUL | — |
| 18701787 | CAT QUBIT CONTAINMENT DEVICE, Z GATE AND CNOT GATE USING THIS DEVICE | VANWORMER, SKYLAR K | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18994933 | Device and method for forming a low-noise image from a burst of images | ORANGE, DAVID BENJAMIN | — |
| 18877465 | METHOD IMPLEMENTED BY COMPUTER MEANS FOR CHARACTERIZING AT LEAST ONE OBSERVATION OF A SUBJECT | RHIM, WOO CHUL | — |
| 18701787 | CAT QUBIT CONTAINMENT DEVICE, Z GATE AND CNOT GATE USING THIS DEVICE | VANWORMER, SKYLAR K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18994933 | Device and method for forming a low-noise image from a burst of images | ORANGE, DAVID BENJAMIN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18877465 | METHOD IMPLEMENTED BY COMPUTER MEANS FOR CHARACTERIZING AT LEAST ONE OBSERVATION OF A SUBJECT | RHIM, WOO CHUL | 2676 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18701787 | CAT QUBIT CONTAINMENT DEVICE, Z GATE AND CNOT GATE USING THIS DEVICE | VANWORMER, SKYLAR K | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialInstitut National De Recherche En Informatique Et En Automatique has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
David Benjamin Orange has the most, with 1 of Institut National De Recherche En Informatique Et En Automatique's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
