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
Wayfair LLC has 2 pending office actions in Communications. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, so the docket is divided across both examination dimensions.
HE, YINGCHUN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should prepare each response separately, using the particular examiner and art-unit record rather than relying on a shared prosecution pattern.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HE, YINGCHUN | 1 | 82.1% | +14.9% |
| PATEL, SHREYANS A | 1 | 88.4% | +7.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19091004 | TECHNIQUES FOR VIRTUAL VISUALIZATION OF A PRODUCT IN A PHYSICAL SCENE | HE, YINGCHUN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18804897 | MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR INTENT-BASED ROUTING OF CALLER COMMUNICATIONS | PATEL, SHREYANS A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19091004 | TECHNIQUES FOR VIRTUAL VISUALIZATION OF A PRODUCT IN A PHYSICAL SCENE | HE, YINGCHUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2613 | 1 |
| 2659 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19091004 | TECHNIQUES FOR VIRTUAL VISUALIZATION OF A PRODUCT IN A PHYSICAL SCENE | HE, YINGCHUN | 2613 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 18804897 | MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR INTENT-BASED ROUTING OF CALLER COMMUNICATIONS | PATEL, SHREYANS A | 2659 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialWayfair LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Yingchun He has the most, with 1 of Wayfair LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
