Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Axiom Technologies LLC operates a company patent portfolio in the Networking & Security technology area. There are 2 pending office actions currently active. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, each managing 1 pending matter. This distribution suggests that the company is managing 2 separate review tracks within the USPTO. The presence of 2 pending office actions indicates a focused prosecution effort in the networking and security sector.
The prosecution is spread across 2 distinct art units, reflecting different technical focuses within the networking field. CHAO, MICHAEL W is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The use of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units provides a varied review process for the company's pending security applications. For a practitioner, this means that each of the 2 pending office actions is being handled in a unique administrative and technical environment. The lack of overlap between the 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units requires a specific strategy for each individual 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAO, MICHAEL W | 1 | 70.1% | +39.7% |
| LIU, SHU | 1 | 85.7% | -50.0% |
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.
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18905227 | Method And System For Securely Communicating In A Networked System | CHAO, MICHAEL W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18905227 | Method And System For Securely Communicating In A Networked System | CHAO, MICHAEL W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2492 | 1 |
| 2417 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18905227 | Method And System For Securely Communicating In A Networked System | CHAO, MICHAEL W | 2492 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18218660 | Control Of Signal Transmission Between Communication Devices | LIU, SHU | 2417 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jul 06, 2023 |
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