Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Connectfree Corporation is managing 7 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These matters are distributed across 7 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units. This high ratio of art units to pending actions suggests a broad technical scope within the networking and security field. The involvement of 6 distinct art units means that almost every pending matter is being reviewed by a different specialized group within the patent office.
Yong Hang Jiang is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 7 distinct examiners for 7 pending actions, the prosecution is entirely decentralized. This distribution ensures a variety of examiner perspectives across the active matters. This structure allows the company to receive feedback from a broad array of examiners across 6 distinct art units. Practitioners should be prepared for a variety of examination styles, as the pending office actions are being processed by as many different individuals. This decentralized approach ensures that the company's networking and security innovations are evaluated by a wide range of specialized groups and examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (43%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JIANG, YONG HANG | 1 | 61.7% | +20.5% |
| FIORILLO, JAMES N | 1 | 85.7% | +37.1% |
| JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT | 1 | 86.9% | +15.0% |
| MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 1 | 64.1% | +33.9% |
| BERMAN, STEPHEN DAVID | 1 | 78.4% | +58.3% |
| LANIER, BENJAMIN E | 1 | 69.4% | +16.9% |
| LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D | 1 | 58.5% | +55.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18393835 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM | JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT | 16d overdue |
| 19005894 | COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK COMMUNICATION | FIORILLO, JAMES N | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17428941 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSING PROGRAM | LANIER, BENJAMIN E | 36d overdue |
| 17293316 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR NETWORK ADDRESS PROVISION | LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D | 30d overdue |
| 19042312 | GATE OPENING METHOD AND DOOR UNLOCKING METHOD USING PORTABLE TERMINAL NETWORK ADDRESS | JIANG, YONG HANG | — |
| 17631211 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION GATHERING SYSTEM AND WEARABLE DEVICE | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17428941 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSING PROGRAM | LANIER, BENJAMIN E | 36d overdue |
| 17293316 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR NETWORK ADDRESS PROVISION | LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D | 30d overdue |
| 18393835 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM | JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT | 16d overdue |
| 19042312 | GATE OPENING METHOD AND DOOR UNLOCKING METHOD USING PORTABLE TERMINAL NETWORK ADDRESS | JIANG, YONG HANG | — |
| 19005894 | COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK COMMUNICATION | FIORILLO, JAMES N | — |
| 17631211 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION GATHERING SYSTEM AND WEARABLE DEVICE | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | — |
| 17613452 | COMPUTING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | BERMAN, STEPHEN DAVID | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2493 | 2 |
| 2689 | 1 |
| 2444 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| 2192 | 1 |
| 2437 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19042312 | GATE OPENING METHOD AND DOOR UNLOCKING METHOD USING PORTABLE TERMINAL NETWORK ADDRESS | JIANG, YONG HANG | 2689 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19005894 | COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK COMMUNICATION | FIORILLO, JAMES N | 2444 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18393835 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM | JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT | 2493 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 17631211 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION GATHERING SYSTEM AND WEARABLE DEVICE | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 3794 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2022 |
| 17613452 | COMPUTING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | BERMAN, STEPHEN DAVID | 2192 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2021 |
| 17428941 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSING PROGRAM | LANIER, BENJAMIN E | 2437 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Aug 05, 2021 |
| 17293316 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR NETWORK ADDRESS PROVISION | LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D | 2493 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | May 12, 2021 |
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