Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cognitive Systems Corp. has 6 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These matters are distributed among 6 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This distribution shows that every pending action is being handled by a different examiner. Such a wide distribution across examiners for a portfolio of 6 actions suggests a highly decentralized examination process.
The busiest examiner for the company is DECKER, CASSANDRA L, who is assigned 1 pending office action. Because each of the 6 distinct examiners handles only 1 of the 6 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly distributed across the examination staff. Practitioners must manage relationships with six different examiners across 4 distinct art units. This variety of examiners within a relatively small number of art units suggests that the company's networking and security innovations are being reviewed by a diverse group of specialists. Practitioners should expect to tailor their arguments to the specific preferences of each individual examiner involved across these 4 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 5 (83%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DECKER, CASSANDRA L | 1 | 72.3% | +15.9% |
| ELPENORD, CANDAL | 1 | 89.7% | +12.7% |
| SIXTO, NANCY | 1 | 76.9% | +37.5% |
| RANEW, BENJAMIN THOMAS | 1 | 90.9% | +14.3% |
| JAIN, SWATI | 1 | 84.4% | +24.0% |
| HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 1 | 68.2% | +27.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18700548 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TIME SPREAD ASSEMBLED CSI FOR WIDEBAND CHANNELS | ELPENORD, CANDAL | — |
| 18573941 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMBINED DATA AND SENSING IN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (OFDMA) | RANEW, BENJAMIN THOMAS | — |
| 18060137 | Configuring a Motion Sensing System for Operation in an Environment | JAIN, SWATI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18893666 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC TIME DOMAIN CHANNEL REPRESENTATIONS | DECKER, CASSANDRA 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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18688134 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMPRESSED CSI FOR VIRTUAL WIDEBAND CHANNELS | SIXTO, NANCY | 8d |
| 17696224 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TIME STAMPING OF WI-FI SENSING DATA | HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 22d |
| 18893666 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC TIME DOMAIN CHANNEL REPRESENTATIONS | DECKER, CASSANDRA L | — |
| 18700548 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TIME SPREAD ASSEMBLED CSI FOR WIDEBAND CHANNELS | ELPENORD, CANDAL | — |
| 18573941 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMBINED DATA AND SENSING IN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (OFDMA) | RANEW, BENJAMIN THOMAS | — |
| 18060137 | Configuring a Motion Sensing System for Operation in an Environment | JAIN, SWATI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2465 | 2 |
| 2473 | 1 |
| 2649 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18893666 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC TIME DOMAIN CHANNEL REPRESENTATIONS | DECKER, CASSANDRA L | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18700548 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TIME SPREAD ASSEMBLED CSI FOR WIDEBAND CHANNELS | ELPENORD, CANDAL | 2473 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18688134 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMPRESSED CSI FOR VIRTUAL WIDEBAND CHANNELS | SIXTO, NANCY | 2465 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18573941 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMBINED DATA AND SENSING IN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (OFDMA) | RANEW, BENJAMIN THOMAS | 2465 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18060137 | Configuring a Motion Sensing System for Operation in an Environment | JAIN, SWATI | 2649 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
| 17696224 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TIME STAMPING OF WI-FI SENSING DATA | HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Mar 16, 2022 |
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