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
Asrock Rack Incorporation currently manages 1 pending office action within the Networking & Security technology area. Examiner SLOMS, NICHOLAS is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending case. The company's current activity involves only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a concentrated effort in a specific area of networking technology.
The outcome of this pending matter will be determined by the specific examination criteria of this official. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate patent outcomes depend entirely on the individual discretion of SLOMS, NICHOLAS. This lack of examiner diversity means the prosecution strategy must be precisely tailored to the specific requirements of the assigned art unit. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's research and development in this area is highly specialized. Practitioners should focus on establishing a clear dialogue with this examiner to advance the application.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SLOMS, NICHOLAS | 1 | 68.5% | +10.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18617884 | MULTI-NODE SERVER NETWORK SYSTEM | SLOMS, NICHOLAS | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2476 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18617884 | MULTI-NODE SERVER NETWORK SYSTEM | SLOMS, NICHOLAS | 2476 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
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