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
Emhart Glass SA is managing 1 pending office action within the Networking & Security technology area. The prosecution is focused within 1 distinct art unit and assigned to 1 distinct examiner. BILLAH, MASUM is the busiest examiner for the company, currently responsible for the 1 pending office action. This represents the current point of contact for the company's active patent prosecution in the Networking & Security sector.
With only 1 pending office action, the company's strategy is concentrated on the specific requirements of 1 distinct examiner. BILLAH, MASUM handles the active workload within the 1 distinct art unit assigned. Practitioners should focus on the examination history of this examiner to navigate the Networking & Security filing effectively. The 1 pending office action indicates a very limited but highly specialized active portfolio at this time.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BILLAH, MASUM | 1 | 80.5% | +20.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18821261 | Apparatus and Method for Inspecting Containers | BILLAH, MASUM | 5d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18821261 | Apparatus and Method for Inspecting Containers | BILLAH, MASUM | 5d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2486 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18821261 | Apparatus and Method for Inspecting Containers | BILLAH, MASUM | 2486 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
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