Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vodafone GmbH has 2 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that each pending matter is assigned in a separate examination context.
WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The available information supports individualized response planning, with no repeated examiner or art-unit assignment identified.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE | 1 | 89.0% | +4.5% |
| KHAN, SUHAIL | 1 | 80.3% | +27.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879637 | Roaming Radio Access to a Public Land Mobile Network | WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE | — |
| 18866588 | EMERGENCY MESSAGE HANDLING | KHAN, SUHAIL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18866588 | EMERGENCY MESSAGE HANDLING | KHAN, SUHAIL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2644 | 1 |
| 2642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18879637 | Roaming Radio Access to a Public Land Mobile Network | WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE | 2644 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18866588 | EMERGENCY MESSAGE HANDLING | KHAN, SUHAIL | 2642 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialVodafone GmbH has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Erika Alise Washington has the most, with 1 of Vodafone GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
