Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Diehl Metering Systems GmbH currently has 1 pending office action in the Networking & Security technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The alignment with the Networking & Security area defines the company's current patenting focus and technical direction.
The busiest examiner, FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG, is managing 1 pending office action. This single action constitutes the total of 1 pending office action for the company. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution process is highly focused on a single point of review at the patent office.
Practitioners should be aware that the outcome of the 1 pending office action is entirely dependent on the findings of FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG. The use of 1 distinct art unit suggests a specialized examination environment within the Networking & Security field. This concentration simplifies the management of the company's current intellectual property assets by limiting the number of active dialogues with examiners.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG | 1 | 82.8% | +19.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18615331 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE, METHOD FOR OPERATING A GATEWAY, GATEWAY, SHARED-USAGE TERTIARY INFRASTRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR APPLYING A PROGRAM LOGIC OF GATEWAY SOFTWARE | FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18615331 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE, METHOD FOR OPERATING A GATEWAY, GATEWAY, SHARED-USAGE TERTIARY INFRASTRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR APPLYING A PROGRAM LOGIC OF GATEWAY SOFTWARE | FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2462 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18615331 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE, METHOD FOR OPERATING A GATEWAY, GATEWAY, SHARED-USAGE TERTIARY INFRASTRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR APPLYING A PROGRAM LOGIC OF GATEWAY SOFTWARE | FUQUA, CHRISTINE DUONG | 2462 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
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