Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Milotte has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, DSOUZA, JOSEPH FRANCIS A, and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This profile indicates a focused and singular engagement with the USPTO, with only one active matter currently under review.
DSOUZA, JOSEPH FRANCIS A is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for the 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the entire prosecution strategy for Milotte's current communications technology is centered on this one interaction. There are no other pending cases to provide a baseline for how this examiner or art unit might handle similar claims. Practitioners should focus their efforts on the specific requirements and historical tendencies of DSOUZA, JOSEPH FRANCIS A to successfully navigate this 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DSOUZA, JOSEPH FRANCIS A | 1 | 86.2% | +10.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19003496 | Lotte Lockbox and Parcel Management System | DSOUZA, JOSEPH FRANCIS A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19003496 | Lotte Lockbox and Parcel Management System | DSOUZA, JOSEPH FRANCIS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19003496 | Lotte Lockbox and Parcel Management System | DSOUZA, JOSEPH FRANCIS A | 2632 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMilotte has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Joseph Francis A Dsouza has the most, with 1 of Milotte's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
