Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 1 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. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. Both of these actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very focused technical review of the company's intellectual property. The prosecution of these 2 pending actions is handled by 2 distinct examiners, meaning that each case is being reviewed by a different individual despite being in the same art unit.
The busiest examiner, WINDER, PATRICE L, is responsible for only 1 pending office action, which is half of the total pending inventory. This distribution shows that there is no concentration of cases under a single examiner, requiring the company to manage two separate examiner relationships. Even within a single art unit, the presence of 2 distinct examiners can lead to different prosecution experiences for the 2 pending actions.
With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's 2 pending office actions are subject to the specific policies and trends of a single USPTO division. However, the fact that WINDER, PATRICE L and the other examiner each hold only 1 action means that the company must still address two unique perspectives. This requires a strategy that accounts for the specific nuances of the Networking & Security field while managing 2 distinct examiners.
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 | 86.9% | +11.4% |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 | — | §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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