Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Barco NV operates within the Networking & Security technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions in its portfolio. These 2 pending office actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, with each examiner managing 1 case. The prosecution activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. DANELL L OWENS is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 pending office action. This examiner's workload represents 1 of the 2 pending office actions for Barco NV.
The focus on 1 distinct art unit for both pending actions suggests a specialized patent strategy within the Networking & Security field. For practitioners, this concentration within 1 distinct art unit may lead to consistent examination results, as the examiners likely follow the same internal guidelines. With DANELL L OWENS and the other distinct examiner each handling 1 pending office action, the workload is evenly distributed. This structure indicates that the portfolio's success is tied to a specific examination group at the USPTO.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OWENS, DANELL L | 1 | 76.2% | +11.0% |
| SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R | 1 | 76.3% | +21.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698948 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TRANSFERRING DATA | SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R | 50d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698948 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TRANSFERRING DATA | SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R | 50d overdue |
| 18852814 | COLOR PROJECTOR WITH A BEAM-STEERED ILLUMINATION AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BEAM-STEERED ILLUMINATION TO A COLOR PROJECTOR | OWENS, DANELL L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2445 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18852814 | COLOR PROJECTOR WITH A BEAM-STEERED ILLUMINATION AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BEAM-STEERED ILLUMINATION TO A COLOR PROJECTOR | OWENS, DANELL L | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18698948 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TRANSFERRING DATA | SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R | 2445 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 50d overdue | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
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