Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp. has 4 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are handled by 4 distinct examiners. The prosecution effort spans 3 distinct art units, indicating a level of departmental diversity within the USPTO for this portfolio. The presence of 3 art units suggests that the company's technology is being evaluated across several specialized groups, which may lead to varying examination timelines and technical requirements.
HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because there are 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending actions, each examiner is managing exactly one case. This distribution suggests that no single examiner holds a disproportionate influence over the pending portfolio. The applicant must prepare for 4 unique examination styles across the 3 distinct art units involved in these 4 pending office actions. This decentralized structure requires a versatile prosecution strategy that can adapt to the specific nuances of 4 different examiners and 3 different technical departments.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOIRALA, NIROJ | 1 | — | — |
| BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT | 1 | 51.6% | +37.3% |
| LAHAM BAUZO, ALVARO SALIM | 1 | 50.0% | +100.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17855914 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZED GENERATION EVALUATION, SELECTION OF SOLUTIONS USING IMPROVED DISTRIBUTED EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING | LAHAM BAUZO, ALVARO SALIM | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17855955 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING WEIGHT INITIALIZATION FOR NEURAL NETWORK MODELS | BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT | 6d |
| 17855914 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZED GENERATION EVALUATION, SELECTION OF SOLUTIONS USING IMPROVED DISTRIBUTED EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING | LAHAM BAUZO, ALVARO SALIM | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2129 | 1 |
| 2124 | 1 |
| 2146 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18641886 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADDING EXPLAINABILITY TO DEEP LEARNING MODELS USING RULE-SET EVOLUTION | KOIRALA, NIROJ | 2129 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 17855955 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING WEIGHT INITIALIZATION FOR NEURAL NETWORK MODELS | BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT | 2124 | §112 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Jul 01, 2022 |
| 17855914 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZED GENERATION EVALUATION, SELECTION OF SOLUTIONS USING IMPROVED DISTRIBUTED EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING | LAHAM BAUZO, ALVARO SALIM | 2146 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jul 01, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCognizant Technology Solutions US Corp. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Niroj Koirala has the most, with 1 of Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.