Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
VIRNECT CO., LTD. currently has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. This reflects a single, focused point of prosecution for the company patent portfolio, which can streamline the path to allowance.
The concentration of 1 pending office action under 1 distinct examiner means that the practitioner's primary task is to address the specific concerns of MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR. Since there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, the technical standards and prior art landscape are likely to be very specific. This lack of examiner diversity simplifies the prosecution process but also means that the portfolio's immediate progress is tied to a single relationship. The current state of the portfolio reflects a targeted approach to securing intellectual property within the communications sector. This centralized arrangement allows for a dedicated strategy tailored to the assigned examiner and art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR | 1 | 75.0% | +40.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18989723 | METHOD, A SMART ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND A SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED VOICE CONVERSATION ENVIRONMENT | MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18989723 | METHOD, A SMART ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND A SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED VOICE CONVERSATION ENVIRONMENT | MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR | 2655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialVIRNECT CO., LTD. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Shashidhar Shankar Manoharan has the most, with 1 of VIRNECT CO., LTD.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
