Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Alpha Networks Inc. manages 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The concentration in 2 art units indicates a specific technical focus for these 3 actions. Practitioners should be aware that the pending office actions are being reviewed by 3 different individuals, which may lead to varying interpretations of the 2 art units' guidelines.
PERVIN, NUZHAT is the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is currently handling 1 pending office action. With 3 examiners for 3 actions, each pending matter is being reviewed by a different official within the USPTO. This distribution across 3 distinct examiners means that the outcome of each action is independent of the others. The focus within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area across only 2 art units suggests that while the examiners differ, the technical standards applied to the actions may be similar.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERVIN, NUZHAT | 1 | 81.1% | +13.7% |
| LEVI, DAMEON E | 1 | 64.8% | +1.8% |
| HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 1 | 68.2% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18085876 | TARGET DETECTION METHOD, TARGET DETECTION DEVICE, AND MILLIMETER WAVE RADAR SYSTEM | HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 8d overdue |
| 18945028 | METHOD FOR REDUCING COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY IN DETERMINING DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL FOR RADAR SYSTEM, AND RADAR SYSTEM IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | PERVIN, NUZHAT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18085876 | TARGET DETECTION METHOD, TARGET DETECTION DEVICE, AND MILLIMETER WAVE RADAR SYSTEM | HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 8d overdue |
| 18945028 | METHOD FOR REDUCING COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY IN DETERMINING DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL FOR RADAR SYSTEM, AND RADAR SYSTEM IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | PERVIN, NUZHAT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3648 | 2 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18945028 | METHOD FOR REDUCING COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY IN DETERMINING DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL FOR RADAR SYSTEM, AND RADAR SYSTEM IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | PERVIN, NUZHAT | 3648 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18810358 | MAGNETO-ELECTRIC DIPOLE ANTENNA AND ANTENNA ARRAY USING THE SAME | LEVI, DAMEON E | 2845 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18085876 | TARGET DETECTION METHOD, TARGET DETECTION DEVICE, AND MILLIMETER WAVE RADAR SYSTEM | HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 3648 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
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