Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Royaltek Company Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This matter is assigned to examiner LAU, HOI CHING, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The case is located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a very concentrated prosecution profile.
The company's current prosecution activity is limited to this 1 pending office action. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's immediate patent strategy is focused entirely on the review process of LAU, HOI CHING. This 1 pending case represents the entire active docket for the company at this time.
For practitioners, the focus on 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner means that success is entirely dependent on the outcome of this single matter. There are no other active cases to provide a baseline for comparison. The strategy for the 1 pending office action must be tailored specifically to the Communications standards applied by LAU, HOI CHING.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAU, HOI CHING | 1 | 74.6% | +15.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19052523 | WARNING DEVICE | LAU, HOI CHING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19052523 | WARNING DEVICE | LAU, HOI CHING | 2689 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialRoyaltek Company Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Hoi Ching Lau has the most, with 1 of Royaltek Company Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.