Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
MAINTAINX INC. has 1 pending office action in the Computing & Software technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit and is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. OLVIN LOPEZ ALVAREZ is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently under his supervision. Because the company only has 1 pending office action, its current prosecution activity is highly concentrated. The focus is entirely on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit and the individual preferences of the 1 distinct examiner involved.
This allows for a very targeted approach to resolving the single active matter in the Computing & Software sector. Practitioners should conduct a thorough review of the examiner's previous actions within this specific art unit to anticipate potential rejections. Since there is only 1 pending office action, any progress made with OLVIN LOPEZ ALVAREZ will have a significant impact on the overall status of the company's pending intellectual property in this domain. Maintaining a clear and direct line of communication with the 1 distinct examiner is essential for efficient prosecution of the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOPEZ ALVAREZ, OLVIN | 1 | 48.9% | +43.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19259319 | DETECTION AND PREVENTION OF EQUIPMENT FAILURE USING A PLURALITY OF AGENTS | LOPEZ ALVAREZ, OLVIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2117 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19259319 | DETECTION AND PREVENTION OF EQUIPMENT FAILURE USING A PLURALITY OF AGENTS | LOPEZ ALVAREZ, OLVIN | 2117 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialMAINTAINX INC. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Olvin Lopez Alvarez has the most, with 1 of MAINTAINX INC.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
