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
Science Arts Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, LAFONTANT, GARY, who is also listed as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, representing a highly focused point of contact for the company's current patent activities. This concentration allows for a direct and singular focus on the specific requirements of the assigned examiner.
The presence of only 1 pending office action means that the company's immediate prosecution risk is limited to a single case. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the applicant can dedicate resources to understanding the specific prior art preferences of LAFONTANT, GARY. This singular focus within the Communications technology area simplifies the administrative burden compared to larger portfolios. Practitioners can tailor their arguments specifically to the standards of the 1 distinct art unit identified in the data.
With 1 pending office action, the company does not currently face the challenge of coordinating responses across multiple examiners or technical groups. The busiest examiner, LAFONTANT, GARY, holds the entirety of the company's pending workload. This 1 pending office action serves as the primary indicator of the company's current engagement with the USPTO. The lack of additional pending actions suggests a highly targeted approach to its Communications technology filings at this time.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAFONTANT, GARY | 1 | 73.7% | +1.4% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2646 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18929965 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, And Information Processing Program | LAFONTANT, GARY | 2646 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialScience Arts Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Gary Lafontant has the most, with 1 of Science Arts Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
