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
Smart Rf Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This single case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The current prosecution activity is entirely centralized. Because the portfolio consists of only 1 pending office action, the company's immediate success at the USPTO depends on this specific examiner. The 1 distinct art unit involved indicates a singular technical focus for the pending application.
TAYONG, HELENE E is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's interaction with the USPTO is limited to a single point of contact. This 1 pending office action represents the total active workload for the company in the Communications technology area. Practitioners must focus their efforts on the specific technical requirements of this 1 distinct art unit. Since there are no other pending cases, the outcome of this single action will define the current state of the company's patent prosecution efforts.
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 |
|---|---|
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAYONG, HELENE E | 1 | 89.2% | +14.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19257578 | MULTI-CELL PROCESSING ARCHITECTURES FOR MODELING AND IMPAIRMENT COMPENSATION IN MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT SYSTEMS | TAYONG, HELENE E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2631 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19257578 | MULTI-CELL PROCESSING ARCHITECTURES FOR MODELING AND IMPAIRMENT COMPENSATION IN MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT SYSTEMS | TAYONG, HELENE E | 2631 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSmart Rf Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Helene E Tayong has the most, with 1 of Smart Rf Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
