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
Brick LLC has 1 pending office action in the Networking & Security technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a streamlined prosecution profile where all current activity is confined to a single technical and administrative channel.
GIDDINS, NELSON S is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This workload accounts for the total 1 pending office action currently active. The presence of 1 examiner and 1 art unit for this single matter indicates a focused prosecution environment. For the company, this means that their current patent strategy in the Networking & Security space is dependent on the feedback and decisions of this one examiner within their specific art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIDDINS, NELSON S | 1 | 84.6% | +10.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19190238 | Electronic Device Program Blocker | GIDDINS, NELSON S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19190238 | Electronic Device Program Blocker | GIDDINS, NELSON S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2408 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19190238 | Electronic Device Program Blocker | GIDDINS, NELSON S | 2408 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
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