Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Calix Inc. oversees a company patent portfolio within the Networking & Security technology area. The portfolio currently includes 3 pending office actions, each of which is assigned to a different individual among 3 distinct examiners. This distribution shows that every active matter is being handled by a unique examiner, preventing any single official from having an outsized influence on the current pending workload.
Furthermore, the pending office actions are spread across 3 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's current intellectual property efforts are technically diverse, even within the Networking & Security sector. The busiest examiner, BARKER, TODD L, is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action, which represents a portion of the total active cases.
With distinct examiners and art units involved, the prosecution landscape is fragmented, requiring the company to manage multiple administrative tracks simultaneously. This lack of overlap suggests that the pending applications cover distinct technological innovations. Practitioners must tailor their arguments to the specific requirements of BARKER, TODD L and the other examiners across their respective art units.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARKER, TODD L | 1 | 75.7% | +23.1% |
| CARTER, MICHAEL W | 1 | 74.3% | +15.8% |
| TODD, GREGORY G | 1 | 38.6% | -2.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18148734 | NETWORK CONFIGURATION FOR POLICY COMPLIANT SPANNING TREE | TODD, GREGORY G | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18670647 | FAST AND SCALABLE CONNECTOR FOR NETWORK CONNECTIVITY | BARKER, TODD L | — |
| 18301416 | LASER TRANSMITTER CHARACTERIZATION FOR ACCURATE LASER AGING | CARTER, MICHAEL W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2449 | 1 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| 2443 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18670647 | FAST AND SCALABLE CONNECTOR FOR NETWORK CONNECTIVITY | BARKER, TODD L | 2449 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18301416 | LASER TRANSMITTER CHARACTERIZATION FOR ACCURATE LASER AGING | CARTER, MICHAEL W | 2828 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2023 |
| 18148734 | NETWORK CONFIGURATION FOR POLICY COMPLIANT SPANNING TREE | TODD, GREGORY G | 2443 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2022 |
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