Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The Lockout Co. LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. Prosecution is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This suggests a specific focus for the company's current patenting activities. The administrative simplicity of having a lone active matter allows for a highly targeted legal strategy.
HAILE, BENYAM is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with the only pending office action. This examiner is responsible for all currently pending office actions for the company. Strategy should be tailored to the specific examination style of this individual within the active art unit. Practitioners should consider the examiner's historical approach to the Communications field when drafting responses. The progress of the company's patent portfolio is currently tied to the resolution of the issues raised by this specific examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAILE, BENYAM | 1 | 61.7% | +24.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17951647 | BUILDING LOCKDOWN SYSTEM | HAILE, BENYAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17951647 | BUILDING LOCKDOWN SYSTEM | HAILE, BENYAM | 2688 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialThe Lockout Co. LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Benyam Haile has the most, with 1 of The Lockout Co. LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
