Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Maui Imaging Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Communications. The matters are distributed among 3 examiners and 3 art units, giving each matter a distinct examination context.
GILLIARD, DELOMIA L is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should manage the matters separately while using portfolio-level review to keep claim and argument positions consistent.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 1 | 81.4% | +23.1% |
| GILLIARD, DELOMIA L | 1 | 89.6% | +10.3% |
| ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D | 1 | 55.3% | +3.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18955146 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING ULTRASOUND IMAGE QUALITY BY APPLYING WEIGHTING FACTORS | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 49d overdue |
| 18955278 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING OBJECT MOTION | GILLIARD, DELOMIA L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18955146 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING ULTRASOUND IMAGE QUALITY BY APPLYING WEIGHTING FACTORS | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 49d overdue |
| 18955278 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING OBJECT MOTION | GILLIARD, DELOMIA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18955146 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING ULTRASOUND IMAGE QUALITY BY APPLYING WEIGHTING FACTORS | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18955278 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING OBJECT MOTION | GILLIARD, DELOMIA L | 2668 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18948323 | CALIBRATION OF MULTIPLE APERTURE ULTRASOUND PROBES | ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D | 3645 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMaui Imaging Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Nyrobi I Celestine has the most, with 1 of Maui Imaging Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
