Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Utility Relay Company Ltd. manages 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, VO, DON NGUYEN, who is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The portfolio is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific communications focus.
For a practitioner, the entire pending workload is subject to the examination style of VO, DON NGUYEN. The presence of 1 distinct art unit means the practitioner can focus on the specific technical standards of that unit. Since there is only 1 pending office action, the company's current US patent strategy is highly focused on this single case.
The lack of multiple distinct examiners means there is no opportunity to compare different examination approaches within this portfolio. Practitioners should carefully review the history of VO, DON NGUYEN to anticipate potential challenges. This narrow scope simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the risk associated with a single examiner's perspective within the Communications area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VO, DON NGUYEN | 1 | 90.5% | +0.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18834396 | MODULATED LIGHT-BASED COMMUNICATION FOR DATA TRANSFER AND SYSTEM PROTECTION FOR ELECTRICAL POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS | VO, DON NGUYEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18834396 | MODULATED LIGHT-BASED COMMUNICATION FOR DATA TRANSFER AND SYSTEM PROTECTION FOR ELECTRICAL POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS | VO, DON NGUYEN | 2634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialUtility Relay Company Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Don Nguyen Vo has the most, with 1 of Utility Relay Company Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
