Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cerby Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Networking & Security technology area. This 1 pending office action is being processed by 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a concentrated prosecution status. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit shows that the company's current patent applications are classified within a particular technical domain of networking and security.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LANE, GREGORY A, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 busiest examiner pending office action represents the active prosecution matter for the company at this time. Because there is 1 distinct examiner, the immediate future of the portfolio in the Networking & Security area is subject to the individual review of LANE, GREGORY A.
Practitioners should note that the concentration in 1 distinct art unit affects the procedural landscape for Cerby Inc. There is no need to coordinate between different examination groups, as the 1 pending office action is contained within a particular administrative unit. Success in this technology area currently depends on addressing the feedback provided by LANE, GREGORY A during the examination of the pending application.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANE, GREGORY A | 1 | 74.8% | -0.7% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2438 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18221365 | SECURE APPLICATION SUGGESTION IN WORKFLOW | LANE, GREGORY A | 2438 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
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