Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kairos Water Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within its company patent portfolio in the Communications technology area. This single action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, creating a highly concentrated prosecution environment. The activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the company's current intellectual property filings.
RUSHING, MARK S is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This individual action constitutes the entire pending workload for the company at the patent office. As a result, the progression and eventual outcome of the 1 pending office action are entirely dependent on the examination by this single examiner.
For practitioners, this concentrated portfolio structure means that all current prosecution efforts are directed toward a single point of contact. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, there is no need to manage diverse examination styles or varying art unit standards. The success of the company's current communications-related IP strategy rests on the resolution of the single action handled by RUSHING, MARK S, making their specific tendencies the primary factor in the case.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSHING, MARK S | 1 | 76.8% | +23.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19245750 | LEAK DETECTION AND CONTROL SYSTEM | RUSHING, MARK S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19245750 | LEAK DETECTION AND CONTROL SYSTEM | RUSHING, MARK S | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialKairos Water Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Mark S Rushing has the most, with 1 of Kairos Water Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
