Technology area: Communications
6 pending office actions • 4 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP - Chicago is associated with Communications and 3,141 career applications. It has 6 pending office actions, a resolved allowance rate of 82.12%, and an average of 3.37 office actions per allowance.
The Chicago profile identifies a limited current workload of 6 pending office actions against the application record. Practitioners can use the resolved allowance rate and action average to assess the reported prosecution history in Communications.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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% |
| ABU ALI, SHUANGYI | 1 | 45.4% | +37.7% |
| CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | 1 | 35.2% | +18.0% |
| COFINO, JONATHAN M | 1 | 63.0% | +31.9% |
| KAUR, JASPREET | 1 | 75.9% | +34.1% |
| WEILAND, HANS R. | 1 | 56.2% | +12.7% |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18562453 | APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH DYNAMIC INTERFACE FOR MECHANICAL, SELECTIVE WEED CONTROL IN CROPS INCLUDING TURFGRASSES | CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | 100d overdue |
| 18658013 | SILANE TREATED ANHYDROUS KAOLIN AND OTHER MINERALS | ABU ALI, SHUANGYI | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18562453 | APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH DYNAMIC INTERFACE FOR MECHANICAL, SELECTIVE WEED CONTROL IN CROPS INCLUDING TURFGRASSES | CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | 100d overdue |
| 17315327 | HIGH-EFFICIENCY DESALINATION | WEILAND, HANS R. | 99d overdue |
| 18014999 | VISUALIZING THE APPEARANCE OF AT LEAST TWO MATERIALS | COFINO, JONATHAN M | 73d overdue |
| 18658013 | SILANE TREATED ANHYDROUS KAOLIN AND OTHER MINERALS | ABU ALI, SHUANGYI | — |
| 17986609 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INVESTIGATING VISUAL PROPERTIES OF A SAMPLE SURFACE HAVING DEFECTS | KAUR, JASPREET | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Danaher | 3 |
| Burgess Pigment Company | 1 |
| SWARD LLC | 1 |
| Sylvan Source, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2878 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 2614 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19109406 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLOR FORMULATION | X-Rite Europe GmbH | KO, TONY | 2878 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 18658013 | SILANE TREATED ANHYDROUS KAOLIN AND OTHER MINERALS | Burgess Pigment Company | ABU ALI, SHUANGYI | 1731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18562453 | APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH DYNAMIC INTERFACE FOR MECHANICAL, SELECTIVE WEED CONTROL IN CROPS INCLUDING TURFGRASSES | Sward LLC | CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | 3642 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 100d overdue | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18014999 | VISUALIZING THE APPEARANCE OF AT LEAST TWO MATERIALS | X-Rite Europe GmbH | 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 | X-Rite Europe GmbH | KAUR, JASPREET | 2662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2022 |
| 17315327 | HIGH-EFFICIENCY DESALINATION | Sylvan Source, Inc. | WEILAND, HANS R. | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | 99d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2021 |
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Start Free Trial82.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP - Chicago were allowed, across 3,141 applications in USPTO records.
3.37 office actions per allowed application on average.
6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 4 clients, before 6 examiners in 6 art units.
