Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
BLANCCO TECHNOLOGY GROUP IP OY is managing 5 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. This 1 to 1 ratio between actions, examiners, and art units indicates a highly diversified portfolio where every pending case is being evaluated in a unique technical and administrative environment. Such a structure suggests that the company's software and computing innovations span a wide range of specialized classifications.
The workload is perfectly balanced, with the busiest examiner, MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G, handling 1 pending office action. This means that each of the 5 distinct examiners is responsible for exactly 1 of the 5 pending office actions. The use of 5 distinct art units requires a broad spectrum of examiner expertise across the patent office. This decentralized structure provides the company with a variety of examiner perspectives, reducing the risk associated with a single point of failure in the prosecution process and allowing for a more robust intellectual property strategy across the 5 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | 1 | 80.0% | +28.5% |
| MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G | 1 | 81.6% | +18.1% |
| WU, BENJAMIN C | 1 | 87.4% | +16.4% |
| CHOI, WOO H | 1 | 83.5% | -4.1% |
| MAHMOOD, REZWANUL | 1 | 46.0% | +33.9% |
| CHEN, WENREN | 1 | 15.2% | +28.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18279002 | SECURE ERASURE AND REPLACEMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINE POOLS | WU, BENJAMIN C | 19d overdue |
| 18624355 | DIAGNOSIS OF MOBILE DEVICES USING BUILT-IN ACTUATORS AND SENSORS | MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17430198 | Providing User Guidance on Erasure Process Selection Based on Accumulated Erasure Reports | MAHMOOD, REZWANUL | 42d overdue |
| 17360944 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTENSIBLE DEVICE ASSESSMENT AND DYNAMIC POLICY CONFIGURATION | CHEN, WENREN | 13d |
| 18791213 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF DEVICE UNDER TEST | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | — |
| 17870241 | USER SELECTABLE ERASURE AND DIAGNOSTIC METHOD AND SYSTEM | CHOI, WOO H | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17430198 | Providing User Guidance on Erasure Process Selection Based on Accumulated Erasure Reports | MAHMOOD, REZWANUL | 42d overdue |
| 18279002 | SECURE ERASURE AND REPLACEMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINE POOLS | WU, BENJAMIN C | 19d overdue |
| 17360944 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTENSIBLE DEVICE ASSESSMENT AND DYNAMIC POLICY CONFIGURATION | CHEN, WENREN | 13d |
| 18791213 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF DEVICE UNDER TEST | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | — |
| 18624355 | DIAGNOSIS OF MOBILE DEVICES USING BUILT-IN ACTUATORS AND SENSORS | MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2443 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2195 | 1 |
| 3992 | 1 |
| 2159 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18791213 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF DEVICE UNDER TEST | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | 2443 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18624355 | DIAGNOSIS OF MOBILE DEVICES USING BUILT-IN ACTUATORS AND SENSORS | MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18279002 | SECURE ERASURE AND REPLACEMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINE POOLS | WU, BENJAMIN C | 2195 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 17870241 | USER SELECTABLE ERASURE AND DIAGNOSTIC METHOD AND SYSTEM | CHOI, WOO H | 3992 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2022 |
| 17430198 | Providing User Guidance on Erasure Process Selection Based on Accumulated Erasure Reports | MAHMOOD, REZWANUL | 2159 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Aug 11, 2021 |
| 17360944 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTENSIBLE DEVICE ASSESSMENT AND DYNAMIC POLICY CONFIGURATION | CHEN, WENREN | 3626 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Jun 28, 2021 |
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