Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Instrumental Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating separate examination assignments within the same technology area.
TRAN, PHUOC is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Each response should be tailored to its own communications claims and examination record rather than relying on a shared examiner strategy.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, PHUOC | 1 | 85.4% | +8.8% |
| DARDANO, STEFANO ANTHONY | 1 | 78.7% | +32.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18980362 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING DEFECTS IN ASSEMBLY UNITS | TRAN, PHUOC | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18955660 | METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A COMMON MEASUREMENT ACROSS MULTIPLE ASSEMBLY UNITS | DARDANO, STEFANO ANTHONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2668 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18980362 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING DEFECTS IN ASSEMBLY UNITS | TRAN, PHUOC | 2668 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18955660 | METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A COMMON MEASUREMENT ACROSS MULTIPLE ASSEMBLY UNITS | DARDANO, STEFANO ANTHONY | 2663 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialInstrumental Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Phuoc Tran has the most, with 1 of Instrumental Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
