Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
11 pending office actions • 7 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Crypto Lab Inc. is managing 11 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These 11 actions are assigned to 11 distinct examiners, meaning every pending application has a unique reviewer. The portfolio spans 7 distinct art units, showing technical variety within the security sector. The 7 distinct art units involved suggest that the company's cryptographic innovations are being evaluated by several different specialized groups, each with its own technical focus for the 11 pending office actions.
The busiest examiner is CELANI, NICHOLAS P, who is managing 1 pending office action. This matches the distribution of 11 distinct examiners for 11 pending office actions. For the practitioner, this means managing 11 separate examiner relationships simultaneously. The involvement of 7 distinct art units requires the prosecution team to adapt to the different technical standards and procedural nuances of each specific unit while handling the company's networking and security applications. The workload of 1 pending office action for CELANI, NICHOLAS P is the standard for this portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 2 (18%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (36%) |
| §103 only | 5 (45%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CELANI, NICHOLAS P | 1 | 45.8% | +42.3% |
| MALINOWSKI, WALTER J | 1 | 69.9% | +52.1% |
| AHSAN, SYED M | 1 | 73.1% | +22.3% |
| ZAIDI, SYED A | 1 | 81.9% | +12.2% |
| BOYD, MALA DENAE | 1 | — | — |
| LEMMA, SAMSON B | 1 | 88.2% | +11.2% |
| NILFOROUSH, MOHAMMAD A | 1 | 30.8% | +36.1% |
| SANKS, SCHYLER S | 1 | 72.8% | +16.0% |
| AVERY, BRIAN WILLIAM | 1 | 59.3% | +56.8% |
| CARNES, THOMAS A | 1 | 70.6% | +70.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18934695 | SERVER DEVICE FOR PROVIDING HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION AI MODEL AND METHOD THEREOF | LEMMA, SAMSON B | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18805778 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | NILFOROUSH, MOHAMMAD A | 31d overdue |
| 19222753 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | CELANI, NICHOLAS P | — |
| 19192586 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF | MALINOWSKI, WALTER J | — |
| 19043771 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROCESSING DATA, AND METHODS THEREOF | ZAIDI, SYED A | — |
| 18423732 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR MAKING DECISION AND METHODS THEREOF | SANKS, SCHYLER S | — |
| 17999389 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING STATISTICAL CALCULATION ON HOMOMORPHIC CIPHERTEXT | DILUZIO, NICHOLAS JOSEPH | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18805778 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | NILFOROUSH, MOHAMMAD A | 31d overdue |
| 18185707 | APPARATUS FOR BOOTSTRAP PROCESSING HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTED MESSAGE AND METHOD THEREOF | CARNES, THOMAS A | 16d |
| 19222753 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | CELANI, NICHOLAS P | — |
| 19192586 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF | MALINOWSKI, WALTER J | — |
| 19169947 | SERVER DEVICE FOR USING HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTED MASTER KEY AND METHODS THEREOF | AHSAN, SYED M | — |
| 19043771 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROCESSING DATA, AND METHODS THEREOF | ZAIDI, SYED A | — |
| 18934695 | SERVER DEVICE FOR PROVIDING HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION AI MODEL AND METHOD THEREOF | LEMMA, SAMSON B | — |
| 18423732 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR MAKING DECISION AND METHODS THEREOF | SANKS, SCHYLER S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2498 | 2 |
| 2449 | 1 |
| 2439 | 1 |
| 2497 | 1 |
| 3697 | 1 |
| 2495 | 1 |
| 2436 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19222753 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | CELANI, NICHOLAS P | 2449 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19192586 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF | MALINOWSKI, WALTER J | 2439 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19169947 | SERVER DEVICE FOR USING HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTED MASTER KEY AND METHODS THEREOF | AHSAN, SYED M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19043771 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROCESSING DATA, AND METHODS THEREOF | ZAIDI, SYED A | — | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 18959049 | METHOD FOR MONITORING NETWORK USING HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | BOYD, MALA DENAE | 2497 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18934695 | SERVER DEVICE FOR PROVIDING HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION AI MODEL AND METHOD THEREOF | LEMMA, SAMSON B | 2498 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18805778 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | NILFOROUSH, MOHAMMAD A | 3697 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18423732 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR MAKING DECISION AND METHODS THEREOF | SANKS, SCHYLER S | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18351707 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING COMPUTING DEVICE FOR EACH COMPUTING POWER BASED ON PREDICTION OF COMPUTING POWER REQUIRED FOR FULLY HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT | AVERY, BRIAN WILLIAM | 2495 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
| 18185707 | APPARATUS FOR BOOTSTRAP PROCESSING HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTED MESSAGE AND METHOD THEREOF | CARNES, THOMAS A | 2436 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Mar 17, 2023 |
| 17999389 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING STATISTICAL CALCULATION ON HOMOMORPHIC CIPHERTEXT | DILUZIO, NICHOLAS JOSEPH | 2498 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
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