Technology area: Communications
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U S A Inc. has 5 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, showing that each pending matter is associated with a separate examiner and technical grouping.
BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Prosecution management should therefore emphasize individual response calendars and claim strategies for each matter rather than a single examiner-centered approach.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 1 | 79.1% | +4.0% |
| ROGERS, SCOTT A | 1 | 91.9% | +0.1% |
| ESQUINO, CALEB LOGAN | 1 | 58.1% | +6.0% |
| BLACKSTEN, SYDNEY LYNN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MORSE, GREGORY ALLAN | 1 | 43.8% | +44.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18622754 | Method and System for Document Ownership using Decentralized Identity | ROGERS, SCOTT A | 21d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18409739 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE AND AUGMENT DOCUMENT FORMS | BLACKSTEN, SYDNEY LYNN | 31d overdue |
| 18622846 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO CREATE STRUCTURED DOCUMENTS AND GENERATE CONTENT | BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17958232 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TEXT RESTORATION IN CHARACTER RECOGNITION | MORSE, GREGORY ALLAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2662 | 1 |
| 2683 | 1 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18622846 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO CREATE STRUCTURED DOCUMENTS AND GENERATE CONTENT | BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 2662 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18622754 | Method and System for Document Ownership using Decentralized Identity | ROGERS, SCOTT A | 2683 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18622758 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO RETRIEVE OBSCURED FORM INFORMATION | ESQUINO, CALEB LOGAN | 2677 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18409739 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE AND AUGMENT DOCUMENT FORMS | BLACKSTEN, SYDNEY LYNN | 2674 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 17958232 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TEXT RESTORATION IN CHARACTER RECOGNITION | MORSE, GREGORY ALLAN | 2663 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialKonica Minolta Business Solutions U S A Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Andrew Steven Budisalich has the most, with 1 of Konica Minolta Business Solutions U S A Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
