Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Lightbrite Inc. is managing 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MA, CALVIN, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. This 1 to 1 relationship between the pending action and the examiner indicates a very specific and singular point of engagement with the patent office for the company's current Communications interests.
The prosecution is situated within 1 distinct art unit, matching the count of examiners and pending actions. For a practitioner, this concentration means that the company's current success in the Communications sector is entirely dependent on the review of MA, CALVIN. The lack of multiple art units or examiners suggests a narrow administrative footprint, which may simplify communication but also increases the impact of a single examiner's perspective on the portfolio's immediate outcomes. This focused approach ensures that all current intellectual property efforts are channeled through a single, specialized path within the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MA, CALVIN | 1 | 76.1% | +13.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18798024 | SYSTEM FOR MITIGATING ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS | MA, CALVIN | 146d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2629 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18798024 | SYSTEM FOR MITIGATING ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS | MA, CALVIN | 2629 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 146d overdue | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialLightbrite Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Calvin Ma has the most, with 1 of Lightbrite Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
