Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Cryptography Research Inc.

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

2
Hard (40%)
3
Medium (60%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (40%)
§103 only3 (60%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
80% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
20% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHEEMA, ALI H 1 74.8% +51.7%
ANDERSON, MICHAEL D 1 79.8% +15.4%
WOLDEMARIAM, NEGA 1 75.9% +18.1%
CARNES, THOMAS A 1 68.1% +73.7%
CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S 1 65.0% +33.5%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18131086 MULTIPLICATIVE MASKING FOR CRYPTOGRAPHIC OPERATIONS WOLDEMARIAM, NEGA 2d overdue
17864230 CORRECTING THE ALMOST BINARY EXTENDED GREATEST COMMON DENOMINATOR (GCD) CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S 22d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18670037 FUNCTIONS WITH A PRE-CHARGE OPERATION AND AN EVALUATION OPERATION ANDERSON, MICHAEL D 86d overdue
18131086 MULTIPLICATIVE MASKING FOR CRYPTOGRAPHIC OPERATIONS WOLDEMARIAM, NEGA 2d overdue
17989594 ENTROPY DISTRIBUTION CARNES, THOMAS A 19d
18818336 PROTECTION OF NEURAL NETWORKS BY OBFUSCATION OF ACTIVATION FUNCTIONS CHEEMA, ALI H 21d
17864230 CORRECTING THE ALMOST BINARY EXTENDED GREATEST COMMON DENOMINATOR (GCD) CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2497 1
2433 1
2407 1
2436 1
3694 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18818336 PROTECTION OF NEURAL NETWORKS BY OBFUSCATION OF ACTIVATION FUNCTIONS CHEEMA, ALI H 2497 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Aug 28, 2024
18670037 FUNCTIONS WITH A PRE-CHARGE OPERATION AND AN EVALUATION OPERATION ANDERSON, MICHAEL D 2433 §103 Final Rejection 86d overdue Pending May 21, 2024
18131086 MULTIPLICATIVE MASKING FOR CRYPTOGRAPHIC OPERATIONS WOLDEMARIAM, NEGA 2407 §101 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2023
17989594 ENTROPY DISTRIBUTION CARNES, THOMAS A 2436 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Nov 17, 2022
17864230 CORRECTING THE ALMOST BINARY EXTENDED GREATEST COMMON DENOMINATOR (GCD) CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S 3694 §101 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jul 13, 2022

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