Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lixo has 2 pending office actions in Communications. Both matters are assigned to SHERMAN, STEPHEN G, and the portfolio is concentrated in a single art unit.
This concentration gives the practitioner a consistent examiner context for responding to the outstanding actions. Review of the complete matter set can focus on a common prosecution approach rather than coordination across multiple examiner or art-unit assignments.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | 2 | 82.3% | +16.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963102 | WASTE COLLECTION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD, A WASTE COLLECTION VEHICLE, AND A METHOD FOR ANALYZING WASTE | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963071 | WASTE COLLECTION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD, A WASTE COLLECTION VEHICLE, AND A METHOD FOR ANALYZING WASTE | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963102 | WASTE COLLECTION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD, A WASTE COLLECTION VEHICLE, AND A METHOD FOR ANALYZING WASTE | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | — |
| 18963071 | WASTE COLLECTION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD, A WASTE COLLECTION VEHICLE, AND A METHOD FOR ANALYZING WASTE | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2621 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18963102 | WASTE COLLECTION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD, A WASTE COLLECTION VEHICLE, AND A METHOD FOR ANALYZING WASTE | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | 2621 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18963071 | WASTE COLLECTION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD, A WASTE COLLECTION VEHICLE, AND A METHOD FOR ANALYZING WASTE | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | 2621 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialLixo has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Stephen G Sherman has the most, with 2 of Lixo's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
