Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Livedrop B V maintains a focused patent portfolio in the Communications technology area, currently featuring 1 pending office action. This single action is being processed within 1 distinct art unit by 1 distinct examiner. ZONG, HELEN is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for the 1 pending office action currently on record. This concentrated data indicates a singular point of contact for the company's current prosecution activity within the USPTO.
The presence of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current legal strategy is highly specialized. For practitioners, this means that the outcome of the pending matter is entirely dependent on the specific examination standards of ZONG, HELEN. Without a broader distribution of cases, the portfolio does not yet show the departmental variety seen in larger Communications portfolios. This singular focus allows for a very direct prosecution approach, as there are no competing examiner styles or art unit guidelines to reconcile across the current workload.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZONG, HELEN | 1 | 79.3% | +8.0% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2683 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19008470 | UNIDIRECTIONAL TRANSFER OF DATA FROM SENDER TO RECEIVER | ZONG, HELEN | 2683 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialLivedrop B V has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Helen Zong has the most, with 1 of Livedrop B V's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
