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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Esw Holdings Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Networking & Security technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, POLTORAK, PIOTR, who is also identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The concentration of work under 1 distinct art unit suggests a focused prosecution strategy within a specific technical niche. Because POLTORAK, PIOTR handles the 1 busiest examiner pending action, the firm's immediate patent outcomes depend entirely on this individual's review.
The presence of only 1 pending office action across 1 distinct examiner indicates a narrow portfolio at the USPTO. Practitioners should note that with only 1 distinct art unit involved, there is no diversification of examination styles or departmental norms. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the current workload for Esw Holdings Inc. in this sector. This streamlined structure allows for a direct response strategy tailored to the specific preferences of the 1 assigned examiner. Success in this area will require meeting the specific technical benchmarks set by POLTORAK, PIOTR.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLTORAK, PIOTR | 1 | 74.8% | +30.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18773494 | Device Identification Scoring | POLTORAK, PIOTR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2433 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18773494 | Device Identification Scoring | POLTORAK, PIOTR | 2433 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
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