Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Avalor Technologies, Ltd. is managing 5 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These matters are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution shows that some examiners are handling more than one pending matter for the company, while the workload is spread across three different specialized groups. The presence of 3 distinct art units suggests a range of networking technologies are under review.
POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 3 busiest examiner pending actions. This represents a majority of the 5 pending office actions for the company. The concentration of three actions with one examiner across 3 distinct art units suggests that this examiner has a significant role in the company's current prosecution landscape. Practitioners should prioritize understanding this examiner's specific review patterns, as they handle a majority of the company's active matters.
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 only | 1 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN | 2 | 51.9% | +77.8% |
| NANO, SARGON N | 1 | 80.8% | -1.4% |
| HICKS, SHIRLEY D. | 1 | 60.8% | +50.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19205683 | Automated Mapping of Raw Data into a Data Fabric | POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN | — |
| 19170332 | Exposure and Attack Surface Management Using a Data Fabric | POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN | — |
| 18672456 | Techniques for continuous representation of discrete data models in a cybersecurity management system | NANO, SARGON N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18176149 | TECHNIQUES FOR THE EXECUTION OF WORKFLOWS ON UBER OBJECTS AND COMPACT REPRESENTATION IN STORAGE THEREOF | HICKS, SHIRLEY D. | 2d overdue |
| 19205683 | Automated Mapping of Raw Data into a Data Fabric | POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN | — |
| 19170332 | Exposure and Attack Surface Management Using a Data Fabric | POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2443 | 1 |
| 2168 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19205683 | Automated Mapping of Raw Data into a Data Fabric | POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19170332 | Exposure and Attack Surface Management Using a Data Fabric | POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 18672456 | Techniques for continuous representation of discrete data models in a cybersecurity management system | NANO, SARGON N | 2443 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18176149 | TECHNIQUES FOR THE EXECUTION OF WORKFLOWS ON UBER OBJECTS AND COMPACT REPRESENTATION IN STORAGE THEREOF | HICKS, SHIRLEY D. | 2168 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
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