Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
AlphaTheta Corporation has 4 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning each pending case has a unique reviewer. However, these examiners are grouped within 2 distinct art units, suggesting some technical overlap in the subject matter being prosecuted across the portfolio. This structure allows the company to potentially identify trends within the 2 distinct art units.
The busiest examiner, HOQUE, NAFIZ E, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This is part of the 4 pending office actions currently active for the company. With multiple examiners but only the 2 distinct art units, the company may encounter consistent art unit-level policies despite the variety of individual examiners assigned to the Networking & Security portfolio. This structure requires the company to balance individual examiner tendencies with the broader standards of the art units involved. The presence of distinct examiners ensures that no single individual has excessive influence over the pending actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANWAH, OLISA | 1 | 89.0% | +4.8% |
| HOQUE, NAFIZ E | 1 | 75.6% | +23.0% |
| LYNCH, SHARON S | 1 | 76.7% | +47.5% |
| FLANDERS, ANDREW C | 1 | 74.1% | +14.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18871010 | AUDIO CONTROL DEVICE AND AUDIO CONTROL PROGRAM | ANWAH, OLISA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18557336 | ACOUSTIC DEVICE, ACOUSTIC DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM | FLANDERS, ANDREW C | 51d overdue |
| 18871003 | ACOUSTIC CONTROL DEVICE AND ACOUSTIC CONTROL PROGRAM | HOQUE, NAFIZ E | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18557336 | ACOUSTIC DEVICE, ACOUSTIC DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM | FLANDERS, ANDREW C | 51d overdue |
| 18870032 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM | LYNCH, SHARON S | 14d |
| 18871003 | ACOUSTIC CONTROL DEVICE AND ACOUSTIC CONTROL PROGRAM | HOQUE, NAFIZ E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2400 | 1 |
| 2655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18871010 | AUDIO CONTROL DEVICE AND AUDIO CONTROL PROGRAM | ANWAH, OLISA | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18871003 | ACOUSTIC CONTROL DEVICE AND ACOUSTIC CONTROL PROGRAM | HOQUE, NAFIZ E | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18870032 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM | LYNCH, SHARON S | 2400 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18557336 | ACOUSTIC DEVICE, ACOUSTIC DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM | FLANDERS, ANDREW C | 2655 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 51d overdue | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
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