Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
J M Torres & Associates LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This single action is assigned to a distinct examiner, ALUNKAL, THOMAS D. As the busiest examiner for this portfolio, ALUNKAL, THOMAS D is responsible for 1 pending office action.
The prosecution is localized within a distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the current legal activity is isolated to a specific examiner rather than spread across multiple departments at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALUNKAL, THOMAS D | 1 | 72.3% | +14.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18888124 | FLOOD WARNING SYSTEM | ALUNKAL, THOMAS D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18888124 | FLOOD WARNING SYSTEM | ALUNKAL, THOMAS D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18888124 | FLOOD WARNING SYSTEM | ALUNKAL, THOMAS D | 2686 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialJ M Torres & Associates LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Thomas D Alunkal has the most, with 1 of J M Torres & Associates LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
