Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Patty'S GmbH maintains 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This active matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The company's current patent prosecution is limited to this single case within the communications field, reflecting a very specific focus for their active intellectual property development.
The busiest examiner for the company is BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With a busiest examiner pending count of 1, this individual manages the company's entire current pending workload. This data indicates a focused prosecution strategy within a single art unit. Practitioners should note that the company's immediate patent outcomes are subject to the specific examination patterns and requirements of BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | 1 | 84.4% | +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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17834072 | METHOD FOR FINDING PRODUCTS IN A NETWORK | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17834072 | METHOD FOR FINDING PRODUCTS IN A NETWORK | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2661 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17834072 | METHOD FOR FINDING PRODUCTS IN A NETWORK | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | 2661 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialPatty'S GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kathleen M Broughton has the most, with 1 of Patty'S GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
