Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Alcatraz AI, Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio in the Networking & Security technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner, CHEEMA, ALI H, within 1 distinct art unit.
The busiest examiner, CHEEMA, ALI H, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the portfolio only has 1 pending office action, this examiner is the sole individual currently reviewing the company's patent applications. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the Networking & Security filings are currently limited to 1 technical category.
Practitioners will find that with 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution strategy is very direct. CHEEMA, ALI H is the primary point of contact for all current USPTO interactions. The focus within 1 distinct art unit means that the practitioner can concentrate on the specific practices of that 1 unit. This results in a highly concentrated prosecution effort for the 1 pending office action.
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 | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEEMA, ALI H | 1 | 74.8% | +53.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18947693 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISIONING A FACIAL RECOGNITION-BASED SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO A BUILDING | CHEEMA, ALI H | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2497 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18947693 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISIONING A FACIAL RECOGNITION-BASED SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO A BUILDING | CHEEMA, ALI H | 2497 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
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