Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
7Signal Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing separate examination assignments.
ZAIDI, IQBAL is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should track the two matters independently and tailor prosecution activity to each art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZAIDI, IQBAL | 1 | 90.4% | +6.8% |
| MAK, RODRICK | 1 | 75.6% | +26.1% |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18907966 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED NETWORK PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT | ZAIDI, IQBAL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18333298 | System and Method for Determining Wireless Service Quality using Inference | MAK, RODRICK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2464 | 1 |
| 2416 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18907966 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED NETWORK PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT | ZAIDI, IQBAL | 2464 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18333298 | System and Method for Determining Wireless Service Quality using Inference | MAK, RODRICK | 2416 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial7Signal Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Iqbal Zaidi has the most, with 1 of 7Signal Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
