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
Tally Surgical Inc. has a single pending office action in the Communications technology area. This 1 pending office action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, FOXX, CHICO A. As the only examiner currently assigned to a pending matter for the company, FOXX, CHICO A is also the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action.
The prosecution for this portfolio is limited to 1 distinct art unit. This concentration is expected given that there is only a single pending office action total. The 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit represent the entire current scope of the company's active patent prosecution at the USPTO.
For Tally Surgical Inc., the 1 pending office action in the Communications area defines its current administrative footprint. Practitioners can dedicate their analysis to the specific practices of FOXX, CHICO A and the single art unit involved. The 1 pending action is the sole focus of the company's current interaction with the patent office, requiring no coordination across multiple examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOXX, CHICO A | 1 | 78.5% | +29.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19319391 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR RECOGNIZING SURGICAL ARTICLES LEFT INSIDE PATIENTS | FOXX, CHICO A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19319391 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR RECOGNIZING SURGICAL ARTICLES LEFT INSIDE PATIENTS | FOXX, CHICO A | 2685 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialTally Surgical Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Chico A Foxx has the most, with 1 of Tally Surgical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
