Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Arabian Gulf University currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. Furthermore, the prosecution is split between 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the university's active patent matters are not concentrated in a single administrative area, requiring engagement with different sets of examination standards and personnel. This decentralized approach may require more coordination to ensure consistency across the portfolio.
HUANG, KAYLEE J is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 pending actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly 1 action. This means the workload is evenly divided, and no single examiner dominates the university's current prosecution landscape. The university must manage two independent prosecution tracks simultaneously across different art units in the Networking & Security sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUANG, KAYLEE J | 1 | 74.6% | +49.2% |
| SIFFORD, JEFFREY MARK | 1 | 55.1% | +32.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18058403 | ANTIGENIC DETERMINANTS PROTECTIVE IMMUNITY, SERODIAGNOSTIC AND MULTIVALENT SUBUNITS PRECISION VACCINE AGAINST SARS-CoV-2 | SIFFORD, JEFFREY MARK | 27d |
| 18533035 | IP ADDRESS ALLOCATING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING AN ENCODING OF DISJOINT INTERVALS | HUANG, KAYLEE J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18058403 | ANTIGENIC DETERMINANTS PROTECTIVE IMMUNITY, SERODIAGNOSTIC AND MULTIVALENT SUBUNITS PRECISION VACCINE AGAINST SARS-CoV-2 | SIFFORD, JEFFREY MARK | 27d |
| 18533035 | IP ADDRESS ALLOCATING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING AN ENCODING OF DISJOINT INTERVALS | HUANG, KAYLEE J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2447 | 1 |
| 1671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18533035 | IP ADDRESS ALLOCATING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING AN ENCODING OF DISJOINT INTERVALS | HUANG, KAYLEE J | 2447 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18058403 | ANTIGENIC DETERMINANTS PROTECTIVE IMMUNITY, SERODIAGNOSTIC AND MULTIVALENT SUBUNITS PRECISION VACCINE AGAINST SARS-CoV-2 | SIFFORD, JEFFREY MARK | 1671 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Nov 23, 2022 |
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