Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Badge Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Networking & Security technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit and is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN. As the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN is the sole official responsible for the company's active prosecution. This structure allows for a focused approach to resolving the pending matter.
The relationship of pending actions to examiners ensures that the company's legal strategy is not divided across multiple officials. Because the application is situated within the Networking & Security sector, the prosecution will be governed by the specific technical standards of that area. The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit further simplifies the administrative requirements for the company.
Practitioners should focus on the specific examination patterns of KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN to navigate the 1 pending office action effectively. Since this is the only active case, the applicant can provide a comprehensive response without the need to coordinate with other ongoing matters. This centralized prosecution environment is ideal for a targeted intellectual property strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | 2 | 71.1% | +36.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18960066 | Privacy-Preserving Biometric Authentication | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | 73d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18960066 | Privacy-Preserving Biometric Authentication | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | 73d overdue |
| 18471562 | Privacy-Preserving Key Generation in Biometric Authentication | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2492 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18960066 | Privacy-Preserving Biometric Authentication | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | 2492 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18471562 | Privacy-Preserving Key Generation in Biometric Authentication | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | 2492 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
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