Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Iucf-Hyu(Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University) currently has 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The busiest examiner, SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K, is responsible for 1 pending office action, meaning the workload is shared equally between the two assigned examiners. With 2 distinct art units involved, the foundation's communications innovations are being reviewed in two different specialized groups.
For practitioners, this distribution across 2 distinct examiners means that the prosecution of each action is independent. A decision made by SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K on the 1 pending office action she handles will not necessarily affect the outcome of the other action. This structure requires a tailored approach for each of the 2 distinct art units to address their specific technical requirements and examiner preferences. Since there are 2 distinct examiners involved in the 2 pending office actions, practitioners cannot rely on a single point of contact. Instead, they must develop separate strategies for each of the 2 distinct art units to successfully resolve the pending matters. The lack of examiner overlap ensures that each of the 2 pending office actions is evaluated on its own merits within its specific technical classification.
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%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K | 1 | 68.5% | +33.1% |
| ESQUINO, CALEB LOGAN | 1 | 58.1% | +6.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19012768 | SPEAKER VERIFICATION DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING SPEAKER VERIFICATION DEVICE, AND SPEAKER VERIFICATION SYSTEM | SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19012768 | SPEAKER VERIFICATION DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING SPEAKER VERIFICATION DEVICE, AND SPEAKER VERIFICATION SYSTEM | SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2659 | 1 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19012768 | SPEAKER VERIFICATION DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING SPEAKER VERIFICATION DEVICE, AND SPEAKER VERIFICATION SYSTEM | SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K | 2659 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18921012 | IMAGE RESTORATION METHOD AND IMAGING SYSTEM FOR EXECUTING THE SAME | ESQUINO, CALEB LOGAN | 2677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialIucf-Hyu(Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University) has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Nicole A K Schmieder has the most, with 1 of Iucf-Hyu(Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University)'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
