Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ortelligence Inc. is currently prosecuting 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, VARNDELL, ROSS E, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The concentration of the company's entire active workload under 1 distinct examiner suggests a highly centralized prosecution process at this stage.
The portfolio's activity is further limited to 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a specific technical focus for the current filings. This lack of diversity in art units means that the applicant can apply a consistent procedural approach without needing to adapt to the varying standards of different administrative groups. With 1 pending office action to manage, the company can focus its legal resources on a particular set of examiner concerns.
For patent practitioners, the primary task is to navigate the specific preferences of VARNDELL, ROSS E. The 1 distinct examiner's historical tendencies will be the most significant factor in determining the outcome of the 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio is currently situated within 1 distinct art unit, the strategy should be tailored to the particular guidelines and trends of that group within the Communications sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VARNDELL, ROSS E | 1 | 84.7% | +13.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18234191 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC IDENTIFICATION OF A SURGICAL TRAY AND THE ITEMS CONTAINED THEREON | VARNDELL, ROSS E | 73d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18234191 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC IDENTIFICATION OF A SURGICAL TRAY AND THE ITEMS CONTAINED THEREON | VARNDELL, ROSS E | 73d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2674 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18234191 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC IDENTIFICATION OF A SURGICAL TRAY AND THE ITEMS CONTAINED THEREON | VARNDELL, ROSS E | 2674 | §103 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Aug 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialOrtelligence Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ross E Varndell has the most, with 1 of Ortelligence Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
