Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Orchard Holding is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This 1 matter constitutes the whole of the company's active prosecution as shown in the data. The alignment with Communications suggests a portfolio focused on specific technical advancements in this field.
The prosecution is characterized by concentration, with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved. CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. For the practitioner, this means that the success of the current filing depends on the specific interpretations and procedural expectations of this 1 examiner.
Because there is only 1 distinct art unit, the subject matter is being handled within 1 specialized group at the USPTO. This can simplify the prosecution process by ensuring that the examiner is a specialist in the relevant field. With 1 pending office action, the company can dedicate its resources to addressing the specific concerns raised by CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT without the need to coordinate across multiple active cases.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT | 1 | 69.8% | +34.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18369643 | system and method to measure, identify, process and reduce food defects during manual or automated processing | CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18369643 | system and method to measure, identify, process and reduce food defects during manual or automated processing | CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2667 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18369643 | system and method to measure, identify, process and reduce food defects during manual or automated processing | CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT | 2667 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialOrchard Holding has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael Robert Cammarata has the most, with 1 of Orchard Holding's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
