Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Quantmetry holds 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner across 1 distinct art unit. Caroline Tabancay Duffy is the busiest examiner for the company, with this single pending matter currently assigned. With only 1 pending office action, the portfolio's immediate trajectory depends entirely on the interaction within 1 distinct art unit.
The Communications technology area often involves complex standards, but the current workload is limited to a single point of contact. Practitioners should focus on the specific examiner, Caroline Tabancay Duffy, to resolve the pending matter. This concentrated activity means that the company's current prosecution results are tied to the 1 distinct examiner and the specific practices of the art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUFFY, CAROLINE TABANCAY | 1 | 80.6% | +18.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18832388 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING A BIOLOGICAL ELEMENT IN A TISSUE SAMPLE | DUFFY, CAROLINE TABANCAY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18832388 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING A BIOLOGICAL ELEMENT IN A TISSUE SAMPLE | DUFFY, CAROLINE TABANCAY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18832388 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING A BIOLOGICAL ELEMENT IN A TISSUE SAMPLE | DUFFY, CAROLINE TABANCAY | 2662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialQuantmetry has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Caroline Tabancay Duffy has the most, with 1 of Quantmetry's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.