Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pctel Inc. currently has 1 pending office action situated in the Computing & Software technology area. The prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a specific technical focus within the broader software domain. With only 1 distinct examiner assigned to the pending workload, the company's current experience is limited to a single point of contact at the patent office. This centralization can be efficient for maintaining a unified legal argument across the portfolio's active matters.
BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. serves as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action constitutes the total volume of pending office actions for the company at this time. Because the 1 distinct examiner manages the only active matter, the progression of the company's software-related intellectual property is currently subject to the specific examination patterns of this individual. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the company's current administrative challenges within the 1 distinct art unit identified.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. | 1 | 68.1% | +11.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18527837 | Serial Peripheral Interface Control Method | BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2184 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18527837 | Serial Peripheral Interface Control Method | BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. | 2184 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPctel Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Christopher A. Bartels has the most, with 1 of Pctel Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
