Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cequence Security Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units and are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. WINDER, PATRICE L is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. This distribution means that each of the 2 pending actions is being handled by a different examiner in a different art unit, requiring separate prosecution approaches for each matter. This decentralized structure for the 2 pending actions suggests a diverse technical focus within the security sector.
With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units involved, the company faces two different sets of examiner expectations and art unit standards. This lack of overlap means that progress in one pending office action may not directly influence the other. The presence of 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending actions indicates that the company's networking and security innovations are being classified into different specialized categories at the USPTO. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate two separate examination paths simultaneously to advance this portfolio.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WINDER, PATRICE L | 1 | 87.0% | +11.3% |
| ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD | 1 | 74.1% | +30.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19220386 | FOUNDATIONAL MACHINE LEARNING MODEL APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) SECURITY | WINDER, PATRICE L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19220386 | FOUNDATIONAL MACHINE LEARNING MODEL APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) SECURITY | WINDER, PATRICE L | — |
| 18967060 | DOMAIN REPUTATION SYSTEM | ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2453 | 1 |
| 2431 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19220386 | FOUNDATIONAL MACHINE LEARNING MODEL APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) SECURITY | WINDER, PATRICE L | 2453 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 18967060 | DOMAIN REPUTATION SYSTEM | ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD | 2431 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCequence Security Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Patrice L Winder has the most, with 1 of Cequence Security Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
