Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Bravo Tech Inc. is currently engaged in 1 pending office action within the Networking & Security technology area. This activity is localized in a distinct art unit, which points to a specific technical niche within the broader networking field. The company is working with a distinct examiner, allowing for a consistent and direct dialogue during the prosecution of this single application.
VANGAPATY, SRIHARSHA REDDY is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling the 1 pending office action. Since there is only a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit involved, the company's current patent strategy is highly focused on the specific technical standards of that unit. The pending office action in Networking & Security serves as the current focal point for Bravo Tech Inc.'s intellectual property development. Practitioners should tailor their arguments to the specific expectations of the busiest examiner to efficiently resolve the 1 pending office action and advance the company's position in the Networking & Security sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VANGAPATY, SRIHARSHA REDDY | 1 | 40.0% | +100.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18531611 | ACTIVE-STANDBY SWITCHING PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | VANGAPATY, SRIHARSHA REDDY | 3d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18531611 | ACTIVE-STANDBY SWITCHING PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | VANGAPATY, SRIHARSHA REDDY | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2475 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18531611 | ACTIVE-STANDBY SWITCHING PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | VANGAPATY, SRIHARSHA REDDY | 2475 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
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