Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Peng Cheng Laboratory is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are split across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's current filings cover different technical sub-sectors within the communications field. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, which means each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual at the patent office. This distribution suggests that the company is pursuing multiple distinct communications-related innovations simultaneously.
TORRES, JUAN A is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action under their review. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending actions, the workload is evenly distributed with each examiner handling one case. For a practitioner, this requires managing two separate prosecution tracks, each tailored to the specific requirements of a different examiner and art unit. The data shows a balanced interaction with the patent office across these 2 pending matters. Having 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units means the company must address two different sets of technical standards and examiner preferences.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TORRES, JUAN A | 1 | 87.4% | +12.6% |
| CADEAU, WEDNEL | 1 | 71.6% | +19.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19049687 | POSITIONING METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS | TORRES, JUAN A | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18683359 | Point Cloud Attribute Encoding Method and Apparatus, and Point Cloud Attribute Decoding Method and Apparatus | CADEAU, WEDNEL | 26d |
| 19049687 | POSITIONING METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS | TORRES, JUAN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2634 | 1 |
| 2632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19049687 | POSITIONING METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS | TORRES, JUAN A | 2634 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 18683359 | Point Cloud Attribute Encoding Method and Apparatus, and Point Cloud Attribute Decoding Method and Apparatus | CADEAU, WEDNEL | 2632 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialPeng Cheng Laboratory has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Juan A Torres has the most, with 1 of Peng Cheng Laboratory's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
