Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Lockfob LLC is active in the Communications technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The matter is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit. This singular focus suggests that the company's current pending patent activity is concentrated in one specific technical and administrative area of the patent office. Practitioners should focus on the specific standards of this 1 distinct art unit.
AKHTER, SHARMIN is the busiest examiner for the company, handling 1 pending office action. This single examiner is responsible for the company's entire pending workload. Since there is only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the outcome of this case is the primary factor in the company's current prosecution status. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technology is specialized within the communications domain.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKHTER, SHARMIN | 1 | 70.5% | +28.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19038020 | CONTACTLESS ELECTRONIC ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM | AKHTER, SHARMIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19038020 | CONTACTLESS ELECTRONIC ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM | AKHTER, SHARMIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19038020 | CONTACTLESS ELECTRONIC ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM | AKHTER, SHARMIN | 2689 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialLockfob LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sharmin Akhter has the most, with 1 of Lockfob LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
