Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vivotek Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Communications. The portfolio is divided between 2 examiners and 2 art units, with each matter following a distinct examination path.
GARCIA, SANTIAGO is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The assignment does not encompass the entire workload, so prosecution management should preserve separate attention for the other examiner and art-unit context.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARCIA, SANTIAGO | 1 | 87.9% | +13.6% |
| DING, XIAOMAO | 1 | 80.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18946961 | IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD AND IMAGE ANALYSIS APPARATUS | GARCIA, SANTIAGO | — |
| 18646786 | IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD AND IMAGE ANALYSIS APPARATUS | DING, XIAOMAO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18946961 | IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD AND IMAGE ANALYSIS APPARATUS | GARCIA, SANTIAGO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2673 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18946961 | IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD AND IMAGE ANALYSIS APPARATUS | GARCIA, SANTIAGO | 2673 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18646786 | IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD AND IMAGE ANALYSIS APPARATUS | DING, XIAOMAO | 2674 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialVivotek Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Santiago Garcia has the most, with 1 of Vivotek Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
