Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Limbic Limited has 2 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. NEWTON, CHAD A is the named busiest examiner, with 1 pending action.
The separate assignments make coordinated review important. Counsel should track each action independently while maintaining consistent transportation and mechanical terminology across the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEWTON, CHAD A | 1 | 38.4% | +23.4% |
| ZHU, RICHARD Z | 1 | 69.3% | +15.5% |
| SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. | 1 | 30.3% | +29.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18117019 | Cognitive Distortion Detection Method and System | SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. | 21d |
| 18710169 | Diagnostic Method and System | NEWTON, CHAD A | 28d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18117019 | Cognitive Distortion Detection Method and System | SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. | 21d |
| 18710169 | Diagnostic Method and System | NEWTON, CHAD A | 28d |
| 18458706 | DIALOGUE SYSTEM AND A DIALOGUE METHOD | ZHU, RICHARD Z | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3681 | 1 |
| 2654 | 1 |
| 3684 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18710169 | Diagnostic Method and System | NEWTON, CHAD A | 3681 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18458706 | DIALOGUE SYSTEM AND A DIALOGUE METHOD | ZHU, RICHARD Z | 2654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 18117019 | Cognitive Distortion Detection Method and System | SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. | 3684 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Mar 03, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLimbic Limited has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Chad A Newton has the most, with 1 of Limbic Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
