Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tissot SA has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. Prosecution for the company is currently focused on 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly specific area of interest within the communications field, with all current patent office interaction occurring through the channel.
The busiest examiner, SCHNIREL, ANDREW B, is handling 1 pending office action. This represents the total volume of pending matters for the portfolio, concentrating all current communications-related prosecution with 1 examiner. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the company's immediate patent goals are subject to the review of this individual. The lack of broader activity across multiple examiners or art units suggests that the company is currently pursuing 1 active patent application in this sector, making the outcome of this action critical for the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHNIREL, ANDREW B | 1 | 51.0% | -6.2% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17773795 | METHOD FOR MANAGING A DISPLAY INTERFACE | SCHNIREL, ANDREW B | 2625 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialTissot SA has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Andrew B Schnirel has the most, with 1 of Tissot SA's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
