Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Rph Engineering LLC currently has 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. Both of these actions are being handled by a single examiner, PHAM, QUANG, within 1 distinct art unit. Because the portfolio's current activity is entirely concentrated under this one individual's review, the prosecution strategy is unified. This lack of distribution across multiple examiners or art units means that the company's immediate patent outcomes in the communications field are tied to the findings and preferences of PHAM, QUANG.
The presence of only 1 distinct art unit suggests a very focused technical scope for the 2 pending office actions. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution does not face the complexity of navigating different art unit cultures or conflicting examiner styles. With PHAM, QUANG serving as the busiest examiner with 2 pending actions, the applicant can apply insights from one case directly to the other. The focus remains solely on the 2 pending office actions and the specific requirements of the single assigned administrative group. This concentration allows for a highly consistent approach to the 2 matters.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, QUANG | 2 | 54.4% | +57.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19272179 | TIME-BASED CODES FOR REMOTELY DEPLOYED LOCKS | PHAM, QUANG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18919521 | TIME-BASED CODES FOR REMOTELY DEPLOYED LOCKS | PHAM, QUANG | 58d overdue |
| 19272179 | TIME-BASED CODES FOR REMOTELY DEPLOYED LOCKS | PHAM, QUANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19272179 | TIME-BASED CODES FOR REMOTELY DEPLOYED LOCKS | PHAM, QUANG | 2685 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 18919521 | TIME-BASED CODES FOR REMOTELY DEPLOYED LOCKS | PHAM, QUANG | 2685 | §103 | Final Rejection | 58d overdue | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialRph Engineering LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Quang Pham has the most, with 2 of Rph Engineering LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
