Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The patent portfolio for Michael Horsfall currently includes 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct art units, indicating a focused area of technical review. The prosecution is being handled by 1 distinct examiners, with PHAM, QUANG identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. As the busiest examiner, PHAM, QUANG is responsible for 1 pending office action, which constitutes the entirety of the company's current pending matters.
This relationship between the 1 pending office action and the 1 distinct examiners means that the outcome of the current prosecution rests with a single official. For a portfolio of this size, the concentration in 1 distinct art units and the assignment to 1 distinct examiners simplifies the management of the 1 pending office action but also increases the impact of that single examiner's perspective on the company's intellectual property goals in the Communications sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, QUANG | 1 | 54.4% | +57.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19126838 | SECURITY ALARM | PHAM, QUANG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19126838 | SECURITY ALARM | PHAM, QUANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19126838 | SECURITY ALARM | PHAM, QUANG | 2685 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialMichael Horsfall has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Quang Pham has the most, with 1 of Michael Horsfall's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
