Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Visteon Global Technologies Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Communications. The portfolio involves 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, showing separate examiner assignments with some art-unit repetition.
HAKALA, ALAN GREGORY is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Counsel should track the recurring art-unit context while treating each examiner’s analysis independently.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAKALA, ALAN GREGORY | 1 | — | — |
| LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| CREARY, LATRELL ANTHONY | 1 | 77.3% | +34.5% |
| LEE, MICHAEL | 1 | 79.6% | +10.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19015987 | IMAGE ENHANCEMENT FRAMEWORK | LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18933124 | HIDDEN CAMERA SUBSYSTEM THAT MONITORS A DRIVER OF A VEHICLE | LEE, MICHAEL | 6d |
| 19015992 | DYNAMIC LIGHT SENSOR AUGMENTED IMAGE ENHANCEMENT | CREARY, LATRELL ANTHONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2613 | 2 |
| 2617 | 1 |
| 2422 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19016057 | TRUE COLOR IMAGE ENHANCEMENT COMPENSATION | HAKALA, ALAN GREGORY | 2617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 19015987 | IMAGE ENHANCEMENT FRAMEWORK | LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | 2613 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 19015992 | DYNAMIC LIGHT SENSOR AUGMENTED IMAGE ENHANCEMENT | CREARY, LATRELL ANTHONY | 2613 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18933124 | HIDDEN CAMERA SUBSYSTEM THAT MONITORS A DRIVER OF A VEHICLE | LEE, MICHAEL | 2422 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialVisteon Global Technologies Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Alan Gregory Hakala has the most, with 1 of Visteon Global Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
