Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 1 (14%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (14%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRIBBS, MALCOLM | 2 | 88.9% | +14.7% |
| MONTOYA, OSCHTA I | 1 | 71.2% | +14.4% |
| HAILU, TESHOME | 1 | 78.1% | +23.5% |
| BASEHOAR, ADAM L | 1 | 58.4% | +24.8% |
| IMMANUEL, ILSE I | 1 | 26.6% | +26.6% |
| SHAIFER HARRIMAN, DANT B | 1 | 81.0% | +17.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18990982 | Systems and Methods for Secure Playback of Encrypted Elementary Bitstreams | CRIBBS, MALCOLM | — |
| 18359831 | Systems and Methods for Automatically Generating Top Level Index Files | SHAIFER HARRIMAN, DANT B | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19030740 | Systems and Methods for Protecting Elementary Bitstreams Incorporating Independently Encoded Tiles | CRIBBS, MALCOLM | — |
| 19004089 | Method to Identify Consumer Electronics Products | IMMANUEL, ILSE I | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19278571 | Network Video Streaming with Trick Play Based on Separate Trick Play Files | MONTOYA, OSCHTA I | — |
| 19030379 | Systems and Methods for Distributing Content Using a Common Set of Encryption Keys | HAILU, TESHOME | — |
| 19030740 | Systems and Methods for Protecting Elementary Bitstreams Incorporating Independently Encoded Tiles | CRIBBS, MALCOLM | — |
| 19030892 | Playback Synchronization Across Playback Devices | BASEHOAR, ADAM L | — |
| 19004089 | Method to Identify Consumer Electronics Products | IMMANUEL, ILSE I | — |
| 18990982 | Systems and Methods for Secure Playback of Encrypted Elementary Bitstreams | CRIBBS, MALCOLM | — |
| 18359831 | Systems and Methods for Automatically Generating Top Level Index Files | SHAIFER HARRIMAN, DANT B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3992 | 1 |
| 3699 | 1 |
| 2497 | 1 |
| 2434 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19278571 | Network Video Streaming with Trick Play Based on Separate Trick Play Files | MONTOYA, OSCHTA I | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 |
| 19030379 | Systems and Methods for Distributing Content Using a Common Set of Encryption Keys | HAILU, TESHOME | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19030740 | Systems and Methods for Protecting Elementary Bitstreams Incorporating Independently Encoded Tiles | CRIBBS, MALCOLM | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19030892 | Playback Synchronization Across Playback Devices | BASEHOAR, ADAM L | 3992 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19004089 | Method to Identify Consumer Electronics Products | IMMANUEL, ILSE I | 3699 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18990982 | Systems and Methods for Secure Playback of Encrypted Elementary Bitstreams | CRIBBS, MALCOLM | 2497 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18359831 | Systems and Methods for Automatically Generating Top Level Index Files | SHAIFER HARRIMAN, DANT B | 2434 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
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