Technology area: Communications
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
ULTRATEC, INC. has 7 pending office actions in Communications. The docket is distributed across 3 examiners and 3 art units, but HASHEM, LISA is the busiest examiner, with 5 pending matters.
The concentration in one examiner’s docket makes HASHEM, LISA the main point for identifying recurring objections, interview opportunities, and consistent amendment positions. The remaining matters still require separate review because they are assigned outside that examiner’s record.
The 3 art-unit assignments provide a second useful organizing layer. Counsel can compare treatment within each assignment while avoiding assumptions that an approach developed for one examination context will apply uniformly across the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (43%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HASHEM, LISA | 5 | 75.1% | +12.0% |
| PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT | 1 | 82.6% | +12.4% |
| YIP, JACK | 1 | 33.1% | +37.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18828529 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18396162 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | YIP, JACK | 12d |
| 18981828 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | — |
| 18975587 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | — |
| 18967917 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | — |
| 18943527 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | — |
| 18911427 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | — |
| 18828529 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2692 | 5 |
| 2655 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18981828 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | 2692 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18975587 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | 2692 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18967917 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | 2692 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18943527 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | 2692 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18911427 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | HASHEM, LISA | 2692 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18828529 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT | 2655 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18396162 | SEMIAUTOMATED RELAY METHOD AND APPARATUS | YIP, JACK | 3715 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Dec 26, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialULTRATEC, INC. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Lisa Hashem has the most, with 5 of ULTRATEC, INC.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
