Technology area: Communications
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Subtle Medical, Inc. has 7 pending office actions in Communications. The portfolio spans 6 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, indicating that prosecution is distributed across both personnel and examination groups.
ALFONSO, DENISE G is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That assignment creates a limited point of examiner continuity, but most of the workload remains spread across other examiners.
Counsel should maintain a unified technical narrative where applications share subject matter, while tracking art-unit and examiner differences when preparing amendments. Centralized claim-chart and prior-art review can reduce inconsistency across the distributed docket.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (43%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALFONSO, DENISE G | 2 | 76.5% | +13.6% |
| WINDSOR, COURTNEY J | 1 | 86.3% | +9.0% |
| CHAN, CAROL WANG | 1 | 84.2% | +33.6% |
| LY, TOMMY TAI | 1 | 80.0% | +23.6% |
| YENTRAPATI, AVINASH | 1 | 75.0% | -4.3% |
| GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA | 1 | 77.6% | +20.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19058491 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTRAST-ENHANCED MRI | WINDSOR, COURTNEY J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18636423 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-CONTRAST MULTI-SCALE VISION TRANSFORMERS | LY, TOMMY TAI | 43d overdue |
| 18602373 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED SPINE SEGMENTATION AND ASSESSMENT OF DEGENERATION USING DEEP LEARNING | YENTRAPATI, AVINASH | 32d overdue |
| 19001901 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCELERATING SPECT IMAGING | CHAN, CAROL WANG | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18636423 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-CONTRAST MULTI-SCALE VISION TRANSFORMERS | LY, TOMMY TAI | 43d overdue |
| 18607804 | ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION CT RECONSTRUCTION USING GRADIENT GUIDANCE | ALFONSO, DENISE G | 26d overdue |
| 18607814 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTRAST DOSE REDUCTION | ALFONSO, DENISE G | 26d overdue |
| 19001901 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCELERATING SPECT IMAGING | CHAN, CAROL WANG | — |
| 17706163 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USING SELF-ATTENTION DEEP LEARNING FOR IMAGE ENHANCEMENT | GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2672 | 2 |
| 2662 | 2 |
| 2661 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19058491 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTRAST-ENHANCED MRI | WINDSOR, COURTNEY J | 2661 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19001901 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCELERATING SPECT IMAGING | CHAN, CAROL WANG | 2672 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18636423 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-CONTRAST MULTI-SCALE VISION TRANSFORMERS | LY, TOMMY TAI | 3797 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18607804 | ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION CT RECONSTRUCTION USING GRADIENT GUIDANCE | ALFONSO, DENISE G | 2662 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18607814 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTRAST DOSE REDUCTION | ALFONSO, DENISE G | 2662 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18602373 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED SPINE SEGMENTATION AND ASSESSMENT OF DEGENERATION USING DEEP LEARNING | YENTRAPATI, AVINASH | 2672 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 17706163 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USING SELF-ATTENTION DEEP LEARNING FOR IMAGE ENHANCEMENT | GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA | 2677 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSubtle Medical, Inc. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Denise G Alfonso has the most, with 2 of Subtle Medical, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
