Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Spina Care Corporation is active in the Communications technology area with 1 pending office action. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, ALUNKAL, THOMAS D. This examiner is the busiest for the company, with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a specific technical focus for the pending application.
With only 1 pending office action, the company's immediate patent office interaction is highly centralized. Practitioners should focus on the examination patterns of ALUNKAL, THOMAS D. The 1 pending office action represents the total current workload for the company's pending portfolio, making the outcome of this single case very important for the company's communications technology interests. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the practitioner can focus all resources on the 1 pending office action. The role of ALUNKAL, THOMAS D is central as they manage the only 1 pending office action in the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALUNKAL, THOMAS D | 1 | 72.3% | +14.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18668705 | PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING DEVICE FOR DRIVERS | ALUNKAL, THOMAS D | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18668705 | PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING DEVICE FOR DRIVERS | ALUNKAL, THOMAS D | 2686 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSpina Care Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Thomas D Alunkal has the most, with 1 of Spina Care Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
