Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
X-Rite Europe GmbH has 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, ensuring a variety of perspectives on the company's filings. The portfolio is spread across 3 distinct art units, meaning each pending case is being reviewed within a different technical group. This distribution suggests that the company's communications innovations are being evaluated by three different specialized teams at the USPTO.
KO, TONY is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. With 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions, the prosecution is fully decentralized. The use of 3 distinct art units requires the applicant to address the specific requirements of three different USPTO divisions. This structure ensures that each of the 3 pending actions is evaluated independently by a different examiner in a different art unit, necessitating a flexible prosecution approach.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KO, TONY | 1 | 87.8% | +2.8% |
| COFINO, JONATHAN M | 1 | 63.0% | +31.9% |
| KAUR, JASPREET | 1 | 75.9% | +34.1% |
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.
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18014999 | VISUALIZING THE APPEARANCE OF AT LEAST TWO MATERIALS | COFINO, JONATHAN M | 73d overdue |
| 17986609 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INVESTIGATING VISUAL PROPERTIES OF A SAMPLE SURFACE HAVING DEFECTS | KAUR, JASPREET | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2878 | 1 |
| 2614 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19109406 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLOR FORMULATION | KO, TONY | 2878 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 18014999 | VISUALIZING THE APPEARANCE OF AT LEAST TWO MATERIALS | COFINO, JONATHAN M | 2614 | §103 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
| 17986609 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INVESTIGATING VISUAL PROPERTIES OF A SAMPLE SURFACE HAVING DEFECTS | KAUR, JASPREET | 2662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialX-Rite Europe GmbH has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Tony Ko has the most, with 1 of X-Rite Europe GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
