Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Thales (China) Enterprises Management Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the current workload suggests a focused patenting effort on a specific communication technology or a single strategic application. This allows the company to dedicate its resources to a single examination path without the complexity of managing multiple art unit requirements.
The busiest examiner assigned to the company is BURGDORF, STEPHEN R, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. As the sole examiner for the company's pending matters, the prosecution strategy is focused on this single point of contact. The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit indicates that the current filings have not required review from multiple technical divisions within the patent office. Consequently, the company's immediate patent goals are subject to the specific examination style and technical interpretations of this individual.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURGDORF, STEPHEN R | 1 | 64.1% | +43.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18724316 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS POSITIONING OF VEHICLES | BURGDORF, STEPHEN R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18724316 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS POSITIONING OF VEHICLES | BURGDORF, STEPHEN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18724316 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS POSITIONING OF VEHICLES | BURGDORF, STEPHEN R | 2685 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialThales (China) Enterprises Management Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Stephen R Burgdorf has the most, with 1 of Thales (China) Enterprises Management Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
