Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rapsodo Pte. Ltd. is currently overseeing 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This matter is assigned to YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI, who serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, creating a very specific and centralized review process for the company's pending application.
With only 1 pending office action to manage, Rapsodo Pte. Ltd. can dedicate its resources to the specific examination style of YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI. This singular focus is reinforced by the fact that the workload is contained within 1 distinct art unit, which typically follows a unified set of internal guidelines. While this reduces the complexity of managing multiple officials, it also means that the company's success in the Communications field is entirely dependent on the outcome of this single prosecution path. The applicant must be prepared to address the specific technical concerns raised by this individual examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 1 | 62.1% | +47.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18970076 | CLUB RECOGNITION USING MARKERS | YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18970076 | CLUB RECOGNITION USING MARKERS | YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 2666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialRapsodo Pte. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Julia Zhi-Yi Yao has the most, with 1 of Rapsodo Pte. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
