Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sphairos Inc. manages a patent portfolio in the Communications technology area. The portfolio currently contains 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This distribution reflects a concentrated prosecution effort within the specified technical and administrative channels.
MCCULLEY, RYAN D is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. For the practitioner, this means that the 1 pending office action is subject to the specific examination style and history of MCCULLEY, RYAN D. Because the portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner, the company can focus its resources on the preferences of this individual rather than managing diverse perspectives.
The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the subject matter of the pending office action is confined to a specific technical niche within the Communications technology area. This concentration simplifies the management of the portfolio, as the prosecution is not divided across art units. The current data reflects a targeted approach to patent acquisition, with all active prosecution consolidated under these specific designations.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCULLEY, RYAN D | 1 | 69.6% | +28.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15482544 | Methods and Systems for Obtaining, Analyzing, and Generating Vision Performance Data and Modifying Media Based on the Vision Performance Data | MCCULLEY, RYAN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15482544 | Methods and Systems for Obtaining, Analyzing, and Generating Vision Performance Data and Modifying Media Based on the Vision Performance Data | MCCULLEY, RYAN D | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2017 |
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Start Free TrialSphairos Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ryan D Mcculley has the most, with 1 of Sphairos Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
