Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Beken Corporation has 3 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. Each of these matters is assigned to a different examiner, and each resides in a distinct art unit. TESHALE, AKELAW is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This balanced ratio between actions, examiners, and art units is notable for such a small sample.
It suggests that the company's networking technology is highly diverse, triggering reviews from separate specialized divisions at the patent office. Practitioners must manage the distinct examiners, each operating within their own art unit's specific guidelines. TESHALE, AKELAW is 1 of the individuals responsible for the company's current prosecution. This distribution across the 3 actions means the applicant cannot rely on a single prosecution strategy for their networking and security portfolio. Managing these separate examiner relationships requires a flexible approach to prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TESHALE, AKELAW | 1 | 82.1% | +16.0% |
| VALLAMDASU, SHIVAKRISHNA | 1 | 86.7% | -1.8% |
| DUFFY, JAMES P | 1 | 77.3% | -7.7% |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18904906 | ECHO CANCELLATION AND AUDIO PROCESSING FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS | TESHALE, AKELAW | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18613978 | AUTOMATIC TRANSMIT POWER ADJUSTMENT AT DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES | VALLAMDASU, SHIVAKRISHNA | 5d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18904906 | ECHO CANCELLATION AND AUDIO PROCESSING FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS | TESHALE, AKELAW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2694 | 1 |
| 2468 | 1 |
| 2461 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18904906 | ECHO CANCELLATION AND AUDIO PROCESSING FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS | TESHALE, AKELAW | 2694 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18613978 | AUTOMATIC TRANSMIT POWER ADJUSTMENT AT DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES | VALLAMDASU, SHIVAKRISHNA | 2468 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18392754 | SLEEP MODE ADJUSTMENT FOR QUICK COMMUNICATION RESPONSE | DUFFY, JAMES P | 2461 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
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