Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Inventec Appliances Corporation has 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This small, focused portfolio shows no concentration of personnel or organizational units at the USPTO. The use of 2 distinct art units for only 2 cases suggests that the underlying technologies, while both under the communications umbrella, are distinct enough to require different examiner expertise.
BARRY, STEVEN DANIEL is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending action. With only 2 pending office actions in total, the prosecution footprint is minimal. Because there are 2 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage two separate prosecution tracks without any overlap in examiner interaction. The 2 distinct art units indicate that the pending office actions are being evaluated by different specialized divisions. This lack of overlap means that the outcome of one action is unlikely to provide significant procedural insight into the other, despite both being within the Communications technology 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARRY, STEVEN DANIEL | 1 | 88.6% | -10.0% |
| TENGBUMROONG, NATHAN NARA | 1 | 40.7% | +34.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18792483 | MEETING MINUTES AUTOMATIC GENERATION SYSTEM AND MEETING MINUTES AUTOMATIC GENERATION METHOD | TENGBUMROONG, NATHAN NARA | 5d overdue |
| 19257486 | CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR MONITORING EQUIPMENT AND MONITORING SYSTEM | BARRY, STEVEN DANIEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18792483 | MEETING MINUTES AUTOMATIC GENERATION SYSTEM AND MEETING MINUTES AUTOMATIC GENERATION METHOD | TENGBUMROONG, NATHAN NARA | 5d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2638 | 1 |
| 2654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19257486 | CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR MONITORING EQUIPMENT AND MONITORING SYSTEM | BARRY, STEVEN DANIEL | 2638 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 18792483 | MEETING MINUTES AUTOMATIC GENERATION SYSTEM AND MEETING MINUTES AUTOMATIC GENERATION METHOD | TENGBUMROONG, NATHAN NARA | 2654 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialInventec Appliances Corporation has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Steven Daniel Barry has the most, with 1 of Inventec Appliances Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
