Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bunker Hill Technologies LLC has 4 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These 4 actions are handled by 4 distinct examiners, meaning that each pending case is assigned to a different individual. The busiest examiner, LE, BRIAN T, is responsible for 1 pending action. This one-to-one ratio between actions and examiners suggests a lack of concentration in the company's current prosecution.
The 4 pending actions are located within 2 distinct art units. This indicates that while the examiners are all different, the technical subject matter is grouped into two specific areas within the Networking & Security field. For a practitioner, this means that while they must manage 4 different examiner relationships, they only need to navigate the practices of 2 distinct art units. The 4 distinct examiners will each bring a unique perspective to the pending office actions. Without any examiner overlap, insights from one case may not directly translate to another, even if they share one of the 2 art units. This structure requires a decentralized prosecution strategy that accounts for the individual preferences of four different officials while maintaining a technical focus within the two assigned units. The 4 pending office actions represent a diverse set of interactions within the networking sector.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EBRAHIM, ANEZ C | 1 | 82.9% | +8.1% |
| BEYEN, ZEWDU A | 1 | 83.5% | +14.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18212186 | METHOD AND DEVICE IN NODES USED FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION | BEYEN, ZEWDU A | 147d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18520578 | METHOD AND DEVICE USED FOR POSITIONING | EBRAHIM, ANEZ C | 20d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18212186 | METHOD AND DEVICE IN NODES USED FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION | BEYEN, ZEWDU A | 147d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2467 | 1 |
| 2461 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18520578 | METHOD AND DEVICE USED FOR POSITIONING | EBRAHIM, ANEZ C | 2467 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18212186 | METHOD AND DEVICE IN NODES USED FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION | BEYEN, ZEWDU A | 2461 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
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