Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Visual Supply Company has 1 pending office action in Computing & Software. The matter is handled by 1 examiner in 1 art unit, making the current prosecution profile fully concentrated. Counsel can organize review around one application, one examination record, and one set of claim construction and prior-art questions.
SMITH, BENJAMIN J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. This examiner accounts for the complete identified workload. A focused response should connect any software claim amendments to the disclosed technical operation and address the office action without narrowing the claims beyond what the examination record requires.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, BENJAMIN J | 1 | 64.9% | +56.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18611379 | MULTIPLE ASPECT RATIO IMAGE SYSTEM | SMITH, BENJAMIN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2172 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18611379 | MULTIPLE ASPECT RATIO IMAGE SYSTEM | SMITH, BENJAMIN J | 2172 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialVisual Supply Company has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Benjamin J Smith has the most, with 1 of Visual Supply Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
