Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kourai Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, POINT, RUFUS C. This examiner is the busiest for the company, managing 1 pending action. The prosecution is located within 1 distinct art unit. With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's current efforts are concentrated.
The 1 distinct art unit indicates a specific technical focus within the communications field. POINT, RUFUS C is the only examiner currently reviewing a pending action for the company. This relationship between the 1 pending office action and the 1 distinct examiner allows for a focused prosecution strategy. Practitioners can tailor their arguments specifically to the standards of the 1 distinct art unit involved. The absence of other pending actions means all attention is directed toward this single matter. This streamlined environment simplifies the management of the 1 pending office action with the 1 distinct examiner in the Communications sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POINT, RUFUS C | 1 | 74.3% | +17.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19228597 | POOL GUARDIAN AND SURVEILLANCE SAFETY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | POINT, RUFUS C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19228597 | POOL GUARDIAN AND SURVEILLANCE SAFETY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | POINT, RUFUS C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19228597 | POOL GUARDIAN AND SURVEILLANCE SAFETY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | POINT, RUFUS C | 2685 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialKourai Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Rufus C Point has the most, with 1 of Kourai Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
