Technology area: Communications
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
Next Biometrics Group Asa currently has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. The company's current prosecution activity is focused on this filing, suggesting a targeted approach to its intellectual property. Practitioners can observe that the prosecution landscape is concentrated, with limited distribution across different technical groups.
The busiest examiner, HALEY, JOSEPH R, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. As the only examiner involved in the company's current filings, HALEY, JOSEPH R is the sole point of contact for active matters. The distinct art unit indicates that the technology is being reviewed within a specific communications-related group. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the pending office action by analyzing the specific requirements of the examiner.
The involvement of HALEY, JOSEPH R as the busiest examiner means that feedback and requirements originate from this specific source. This structure simplifies the coordination needed to address the 1 busiest examiner pending action. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific examination style of the examiner to advance the 1 pending office action toward allowance in the Communications technology area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HALEY, JOSEPH R | 1 | 79.1% | +7.4% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2621 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19238983 | SENSOR AND SYSTEM FOR BIOMETRIC SENSING HAVING MULTI-SEGMENT ARCHITECTURE, AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | HALEY, JOSEPH R | 2621 | §103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialNext Biometrics Group Asa has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Joseph R Haley has the most, with 1 of Next Biometrics Group Asa's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
