Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
R&D Industries Inc. is managing 1 pending office action in the Networking & Security technology area. This activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a highly focused approach to its current intellectual property development. Such concentration simplifies the administrative burden of tracking multiple matters across different USPTO departments.
POLLACK, MELVIN H is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. This examiner oversees the company's entire current 1 pending office action. For the practitioner, this means that the success of the current prosecution rests entirely on the interaction with POLLACK, MELVIN H. The alignment of 1 examiner and 1 art unit for the pending matter ensures that the company can maintain a consistent technical narrative throughout the examination process.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLLACK, MELVIN H | 1 | 86.0% | +5.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18801047 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERNET AND FAILOVER CONNECTIVITY AND MONITORING | POLLACK, MELVIN H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2445 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18801047 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERNET AND FAILOVER CONNECTIVITY AND MONITORING | POLLACK, MELVIN H | 2445 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialR&D Industries Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Melvin H Pollack has the most, with 1 of R&D Industries Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
