Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Centripetal Networks LLC focuses its patent portfolio on the Networking & Security technology area. The company currently has 5 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating that the company's technology spans several different specialized groups at the patent office.
The prosecution involves 5 distinct examiners, which matches the total number of 5 pending office actions. This means that every pending action is being evaluated by a different person. DEBNATH, SUMAN is the busiest examiner, though this individual only has 1 busiest examiner pending action. With the current pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, the company must navigate unique examiner perspectives across 3 distinct art units. This distribution suggests a broad but individualized prosecution landscape within the Networking & Security field.
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 (40%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEBNATH, SUMAN | 1 | 75.3% | +32.6% |
| POWERS, WILLIAM S | 1 | 79.7% | +2.4% |
| CHOY, KA SHAN | 1 | 93.1% | +10.0% |
| KHAN, AFTAB N | 1 | 80.3% | +49.7% |
| DESROSIERS, EVANS | 1 | 82.8% | +23.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18999728 | Efficient Threat Context-Aware Packet Filtering for Network Protection | CHOY, KA SHAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18670043 | Methods and Systems for Efficient Virtualization of Inline Transparent Computer Networking Devices | KHAN, AFTAB N | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19207722 | Methods and Systems for Efficient Cybersecurity Policy Enforcement on Network Communications | DEBNATH, SUMAN | — |
| 18999728 | Efficient Threat Context-Aware Packet Filtering for Network Protection | CHOY, KA SHAN | — |
| 18670043 | Methods and Systems for Efficient Virtualization of Inline Transparent Computer Networking Devices | KHAN, AFTAB N | — |
| 18661295 | Cyberanalysis Workflow Acceleration | DESROSIERS, EVANS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2496 | 1 |
| 2454 | 1 |
| 2491 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19207722 | Methods and Systems for Efficient Cybersecurity Policy Enforcement on Network Communications | DEBNATH, SUMAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19052509 | Methods and Systems for Efficient Encrypted SNI Filtering for Cybersecurity Applications | POWERS, WILLIAM S | 2496 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 18999728 | Efficient Threat Context-Aware Packet Filtering for Network Protection | CHOY, KA SHAN | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18670043 | Methods and Systems for Efficient Virtualization of Inline Transparent Computer Networking Devices | KHAN, AFTAB N | 2454 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18661295 | Cyberanalysis Workflow Acceleration | DESROSIERS, EVANS | 2491 | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
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