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
Spark Insights Inc. is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This prosecution activity is limited to a distinct examiner and a single art unit. The focus on communications technology suggests that the company's current patenting strategy is centered on networking or data transmission innovations.
ORANGE, DAVID BENJAMIN is the busiest examiner assigned to the company's matters. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action, representing the full scope of the portfolio's current pending actions. Managing the entire workload through a single examiner can lead to a more predictable prosecution path, as the applicant only needs to address the concerns of one individual.
The alignment of the technology area with the assigned art unit confirms that the application is being reviewed by specialists in the communications field. For the practitioner, this means that the examiner will likely have a deep understanding of the relevant prior art in this sector. Tailoring arguments to the specific technical standards of this art unit will be essential for advancing the application toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORANGE, DAVID BENJAMIN | 1 | 31.7% | +28.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18039624 | Damage Detection Based On Damage-Index Data | ORANGE, DAVID BENJAMIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18039624 | Damage Detection Based On Damage-Index Data | ORANGE, DAVID BENJAMIN | 2663 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSpark Insights Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
David Benjamin Orange has the most, with 1 of Spark Insights Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
