Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tmrw Group Ip has 5 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 5 examiners and 5 art units, indicating a separate examiner and art-unit assignment for each reported matter.
CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT is the busiest identified examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should emphasize application-specific prosecution analysis while maintaining consistent treatment of communications-related claim scope.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT | 1 | 66.5% | +48.9% |
| CRAWFORD, JACINTA M | 1 | 88.0% | +9.7% |
| LEE, MICHAEL M | 1 | 84.3% | +37.5% |
| ZHAO, CHRISTINE NMN | 1 | 69.0% | +42.3% |
| BASEHOAR, ADAM L | 1 | 58.0% | +23.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18182260 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION | LEE, MICHAEL M | 16d overdue |
| 18978949 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL 3D ENGINE COMPUTING AND VIRTUALIZATION-BASED DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING OF VIRTUAL OR REAL WORLDS | CRAWFORD, JACINTA M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18182269 | IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM AND METHOD | ZHAO, CHRISTINE NMN | — |
| 16163300 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING LIVE PERFORMANCES WITH DIGITAL CONTENT | BASEHOAR, ADAM L | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18182260 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION | LEE, MICHAEL M | 16d overdue |
| 19285757 | LOCATION-BASED AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION USING A VIRTUAL WORLD SYSTEM | CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT | — |
| 18182269 | IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM AND METHOD | ZHAO, CHRISTINE NMN | — |
| 16163300 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING LIVE PERFORMANCES WITH DIGITAL CONTENT | BASEHOAR, ADAM L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3663 | 1 |
| 2617 | 1 |
| 2436 | 1 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| 3992 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19285757 | LOCATION-BASED AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION USING A VIRTUAL WORLD SYSTEM | CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT | 3663 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 18978949 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL 3D ENGINE COMPUTING AND VIRTUALIZATION-BASED DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING OF VIRTUAL OR REAL WORLDS | CRAWFORD, JACINTA M | 2617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18182260 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION | LEE, MICHAEL M | 2436 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Mar 10, 2023 |
| 18182269 | IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM AND METHOD | ZHAO, CHRISTINE NMN | 2677 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2023 |
| 16163300 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING LIVE PERFORMANCES WITH DIGITAL CONTENT | BASEHOAR, ADAM L | 3992 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2018 |
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Start Free TrialTmrw Group Ip has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Jeffrey Robert Chalhoub has the most, with 1 of Tmrw Group Ip's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
