Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Arqit Limited has 5 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution is further spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating that the company's technology is being evaluated by several different specialized groups within the USPTO's networking and security divisions. The distribution of 5 examiners for 5 actions indicates a lack of concentration in the prosecution process.
The busiest examiner, KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner handles only 1 of the 5 pending office actions, there is no concentration of workload with a single examiner. This requires a prosecution strategy that addresses the specific tendencies of 5 distinct examiners. The presence of 4 distinct art units for 5 pending office actions suggests variety in the administrative oversight of the portfolio. For the practitioner, this means that the 5 pending office actions are likely subject to a variety of different supervisory styles and examination standards within the Networking & Security area.
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 (20%) |
| §103 only | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | 1 | 71.1% | +36.9% |
| VO, ETHAN VIET | 1 | 75.3% | +27.1% |
| ULLAH, SHARIF E | 1 | 84.7% | +21.5% |
| ABYANEH, ALI S | 1 | 77.8% | +55.7% |
| DHAKAD, RUPALI | 1 | 40.0% | +32.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18873611 | GROUP KEY SHARING | ULLAH, SHARIF E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18873584 | GROUP KEY SHARING | VO, ETHAN VIET | 45d overdue |
| 18868276 | KEY DISTRIBUTION TO A PROXY SERVER | ABYANEH, ALI S | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18873584 | GROUP KEY SHARING | VO, ETHAN VIET | 45d overdue |
| 18874018 | QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION PROTOCOL | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | — |
| 18873611 | GROUP KEY SHARING | ULLAH, SHARIF E | — |
| 18868276 | KEY DISTRIBUTION TO A PROXY SERVER | ABYANEH, ALI S | — |
| 18579155 | QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION PROTOCOL ADAPTER | DHAKAD, RUPALI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2437 | 2 |
| 2492 | 1 |
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2495 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18874018 | QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION PROTOCOL | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | 2492 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18873584 | GROUP KEY SHARING | VO, ETHAN VIET | 2431 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18873611 | GROUP KEY SHARING | ULLAH, SHARIF E | 2495 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18868276 | KEY DISTRIBUTION TO A PROXY SERVER | ABYANEH, ALI S | 2437 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18579155 | QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION PROTOCOL ADAPTER | DHAKAD, RUPALI | 2437 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
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