Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, representing a focused prosecution effort. This singular focus suggests that the university is currently prioritizing a specific communication technology innovation. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the application is being reviewed by a specialized group of technical experts. The Communications sector requires precise alignment with departmental standards.
ANDREW W. BEE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action constitutes the entirety of the university's current pending workload. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner, the relationship between the applicant and the patent office is currently very direct. The 1 pending office action serves as the sole focal point for the university's immediate patent goals. Practitioners can focus their resources on addressing the specific concerns of this one examiner within the 1 distinct art unit. This focus on 1 busiest examiner pending action simplifies the administrative management of the active applications.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEE, ANDREW W. | 1 | 73.0% | +32.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18481104 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING THE VELOCITY FIELD WHEN RESTARTING THE FLOW OF COMPLEX MATERIALS IN A TRANSIENT REGIME | BEE, ANDREW W. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18481104 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING THE VELOCITY FIELD WHEN RESTARTING THE FLOW OF COMPLEX MATERIALS IN A TRANSIENT REGIME | BEE, ANDREW W. | 2677 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialUNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Andrew W. Bee has the most, with 1 of UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
