Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dryrun Security Co. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This active matter is assigned to a distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a highly focused prosecution strategy rather than a broad multi-front approach across different technical specialties. This singular focus allows for a dedicated response strategy tailored to the specific requirements of the Communications field.
ZHU, RICHARD Z is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing a pending office action. Because this individual handles the entirety of the company's pending workload, the outcome of this specific interaction will dictate the immediate success of the portfolio. Practitioners should monitor the specific preferences of this examiner given their total control over the current pending matters. The relationship with this examiner is the most critical factor in the company's current patent acquisition process.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHU, RICHARD Z | 1 | 69.3% | +15.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19054727 | LLM TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINISTIC DATA ANALYSIS AND REVIEW | ZHU, RICHARD Z | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19054727 | LLM TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINISTIC DATA ANALYSIS AND REVIEW | ZHU, RICHARD Z | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19054727 | LLM TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINISTIC DATA ANALYSIS AND REVIEW | ZHU, RICHARD Z | 2654 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialDryrun Security Co. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Richard Z Zhu has the most, with 1 of Dryrun Security Co.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
