Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Evs Broadcast Equipment SA is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending matter is receiving an individual assessment from a different official. This distribution provides a variety of perspectives in the examination process for the company's current filings.
The technical scope of the portfolio is further defined by the involvement of 1 distinct art unit, which handles both pending actions. This concentration suggests that while different examiners are involved, the company's current legal activities are focused on a specific technical area within the Networking & Security sector. Practitioners must therefore tailor their arguments to the specific expectations of the 2 distinct examiners while adhering to the standards of the single art unit.
The busiest examiner for the company is MONTOYA, OSCHTA I, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the total number of pending actions is 2, the workload is evenly split between the 2 distinct examiners. This structure ensures that the company's progress is not entirely dependent on a single person's discretion, requiring a balanced approach to managing the portfolio's current needs within the 1 distinct art unit.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MONTOYA, OSCHTA I | 1 | 71.4% | +14.3% |
| COOMBER, KEVIN M | 1 | 84.2% | +21.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18882482 | Playout Device and Method for Playing Out Zoomed Broadcast Content | COOMBER, KEVIN M | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18882935 | Playout Device and a Method for Playing Out Broadcast Content | MONTOYA, OSCHTA I | 41d |
| 18882482 | Playout Device and Method for Playing Out Zoomed Broadcast Content | COOMBER, KEVIN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2421 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18882935 | Playout Device and a Method for Playing Out Broadcast Content | MONTOYA, OSCHTA I | 2421 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18882482 | Playout Device and Method for Playing Out Zoomed Broadcast Content | COOMBER, KEVIN M | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
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