Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Edge Networking Systems LLC is focused on the Networking & Security technology area. The company has 3 pending office actions. These actions are all assigned to 1 distinct examiner, showing a very high concentration of review. This concentration allows the applicant to focus all resources on a single dialogue rather than managing multiple examiner personalities.
The prosecution is centralized in 1 distinct art unit. This means that all active matters are being evaluated within the same technical group and by the same individual. Practitioners can focus their strategy entirely on the preferences of this single examiner and unit. Understanding the specific internal policies of the department is critical for success.
HIGA, BRENDAN Y is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 3 pending office actions. The busiest examiner pending count is 3, confirming that this individual is handling the entirety of the company's current pending workload. The outcome of the current prosecution depends entirely on this specific interaction. Practitioners should analyze the historical allowance rates and common objections of this examiner to prepare an effective response.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIGA, BRENDAN Y | 4 | 85.8% | +8.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19229982 | METHOD FOR MANAGING UPDATES TO A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK INDEPENDENT OF HARDWARE | HIGA, BRENDAN Y | — |
| 19229970 | METHOD FOR MANAGING UPDATES TO A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK INDEPENDENT OF HARDWARE | HIGA, BRENDAN Y | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19229976 | METHOD FOR MANAGING UPDATES TO A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK INDEPENDENT OF HARDWARE | HIGA, BRENDAN Y | — |
| 18824854 | A Method For Managing Updates To A Distributed Network With No Interruption To Operations | HIGA, BRENDAN Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2447 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19229982 | METHOD FOR MANAGING UPDATES TO A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK INDEPENDENT OF HARDWARE | HIGA, BRENDAN Y | 2447 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19229976 | METHOD FOR MANAGING UPDATES TO A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK INDEPENDENT OF HARDWARE | HIGA, BRENDAN Y | 2447 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19229970 | METHOD FOR MANAGING UPDATES TO A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK INDEPENDENT OF HARDWARE | HIGA, BRENDAN Y | 2447 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 18824854 | A Method For Managing Updates To A Distributed Network With No Interruption To Operations | HIGA, BRENDAN Y | 2447 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
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