Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Vivo Mobile Communicaton Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Networking & Security technology area. Examiner KAYAL, DAVID M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending case. The prosecution is currently confined to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This narrow focus indicates a specific technological application within the networking field.
Practitioners must address the individual requirements of this examiner to move the application forward. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate patent outcomes depend entirely on the individual discretion of KAYAL, DAVID M. This lack of examiner diversity means the prosecution strategy must be precisely tailored to the specific requirements of the assigned art unit. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's research and development in this area is highly specialized. Success in this pending action will require a thorough understanding of the specific examination standards applied within this technical group.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAYAL, DAVID M | 1 | 85.0% | +26.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18618398 | Communication Path Switching Method and Apparatus, First Terminal and Second Terminal | KAYAL, DAVID M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18618398 | Communication Path Switching Method and Apparatus, First Terminal and Second Terminal | KAYAL, DAVID M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2464 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18618398 | Communication Path Switching Method and Apparatus, First Terminal and Second Terminal | KAYAL, DAVID M | 2464 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialVivo Mobile Communicaton Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
David M Kayal has the most, with 1 of Vivo Mobile Communicaton Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
