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 • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ewha University – Industry Collaboration Foundation has 1 pending office action in the Networking & Security technology area. This action is located within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates that the university's current patent focus is concentrated in a specific technical sector. Managing 1 pending office action in a single art unit allows for a highly specialized prosecution strategy tailored to the norms of that specific USPTO division.
The prosecution is being conducted by 1 distinct examiner, SULLIVAN, TYLER, who is also the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Because there is 1 distinct examiner for the 1 pending action, the university's immediate patent goals depend on the outcome of this single negotiation. This one-to-one relationship simplifies the management of the portfolio but makes the university's success highly dependent on the specific examiner's perspective.
The focus on Networking & Security ensures that the legal strategy remains aligned with the specific patentability standards of that technology sector. With only 1 pending action, the university can dedicate its resources to resolving the specific issues raised by SULLIVAN, TYLER to advance the application toward allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SULLIVAN, TYLER | 1 | 67.1% | +30.4% |
| PHAM, NAM D | 1 | 91.0% | +1.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18994221 | VIDEO IN-LOOP FILTER ADAPTIVE TO VARIOUS TYPES OF NOISE AND CHARACTERISTICS | PHAM, NAM D | 3d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19104473 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VIDEO CODING USING CC-ALF BASED ON NONLINEAR CROSS-COMPONENT RELATIONSHIPS | SULLIVAN, TYLER | 9d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2487 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19104473 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VIDEO CODING USING CC-ALF BASED ON NONLINEAR CROSS-COMPONENT RELATIONSHIPS | SULLIVAN, TYLER | 2487 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 18994221 | VIDEO IN-LOOP FILTER ADAPTIVE TO VARIOUS TYPES OF NOISE AND CHARACTERISTICS | PHAM, NAM D | 2487 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
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