Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Scanmaster Systems (Irt) Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This matter is assigned to examiner FOXX, CHICO A, the only distinct examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, matching the single pending action.
FOXX, CHICO A is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This indicates a single, focused effort in the communications sector for the company's current patent filings. For a practitioner, the presence of 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner means that the outcome of the prosecution depends on the interaction with a single individual. The 1 distinct art unit suggests the innovation falls within a specific technical category.
The involvement of only 1 distinct examiner for the 1 pending office action suggests a streamlined prosecution process. Because there is only 1 distinct art unit, the company is not currently navigating multiple technical sections of the office. This singular focus allows for a dedicated prosecution effort on the one pending matter assigned to FOXX, CHICO A.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOXX, CHICO A | 1 | 78.5% | +29.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18867702 | MIRROR CONNECTING UNIT FOR AN INDUSTRIAL UT SYSTEM | FOXX, CHICO A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18867702 | MIRROR CONNECTING UNIT FOR AN INDUSTRIAL UT SYSTEM | FOXX, CHICO A | 2685 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialScanmaster Systems (Irt) Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Chico A Foxx has the most, with 1 of Scanmaster Systems (Irt) Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
