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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Discovery Com LLC has 1 pending office action in the Networking & Security technology area. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This configuration suggests a highly specific prosecution track where a single reviewer in one specialized group is evaluating the company's current application.
HOANG, HIEU T is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active. Because the entire active portfolio consists of this single matter, the company's current progress is tied directly to the feedback from this specific examiner. This concentration simplifies the administrative management of the portfolio.
The 1 distinct art unit involved indicates a specific technical focus within the Networking & Security sector. The 1 pending office action assigned to HOANG, HIEU T represents the total current workload for the company at the patent office. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history of this examiner to navigate the current prosecution effectively.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOANG, HIEU T | 1 | 80.9% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18752124 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNCHRONOUS GROUP DEVICE TRANSMISSION OF STREAMING MEDIA AND RELATED USER INTERFACES | HOANG, HIEU T | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18752124 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNCHRONOUS GROUP DEVICE TRANSMISSION OF STREAMING MEDIA AND RELATED USER INTERFACES | HOANG, HIEU T | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2449 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18752124 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNCHRONOUS GROUP DEVICE TRANSMISSION OF STREAMING MEDIA AND RELATED USER INTERFACES | HOANG, HIEU T | 2449 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
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