Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Middle Chart LLC is managing 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, CHU, DAVID H, who is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests a specific technical focus for the company's pending matter.
Because there is only 1 pending office action, the examiner CHU, DAVID H handles the entirety of the company's current patent office workload. Practitioners should note that the outcome of this 1 pending office action depends entirely on the review of this 1 distinct examiner within the 1 distinct art unit. This level of concentration indicates a very narrow scope for the company's current patent prosecution efforts, with a single point of contact for all current interactions with the patent office.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHU, DAVID H | 1 | 78.3% | +3.4% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18814511 | APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DIGITAL CONTENT BASED UPON A GEOSPATIAL LOCATION | CHU, DAVID H | 2616 | §103 | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Aug 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMiddle Chart LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
David H Chu has the most, with 1 of Middle Chart LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
