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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Field Effect Software Inc. has 1 pending office action focused in the Networking & Security technology area. Prosecution is currently distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a narrow channel of interaction with the patent office. This structure simplifies the monitoring of examiner behavior for the company's current intellectual property assets. The alignment of the portfolio within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's innovations are being evaluated against a consistent set of prior art.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS, who manages 1 pending office action. This action represents the total pending workload for the portfolio, as the busiest examiner pending count is 1. For the practitioner, this means that the current success of the portfolio depends entirely on the interactions with HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS within the Networking & Security space. Tailoring arguments to the specific preferences of the 1 distinct examiner is the most direct path to securing the company's pending patent rights.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS | 1 | 79.2% | +15.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18025389 | ROAMING DNS FIREWALL | HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18025389 | ROAMING DNS FIREWALL | HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2491 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18025389 | ROAMING DNS FIREWALL | HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS | 2491 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2023 |
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