Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fortix Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a spread of examination oversight relative to the total volume of 2 pending office actions. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's networking and security innovations may span different technical classifications within the patent office, requiring a versatile approach to prosecution.
ZARKA, DAVID PETER is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is assigned to ZARKA, DAVID PETER, suggesting that prosecution efforts are split among the 2 distinct examiners involved. For practitioners, this distribution means that the pending cases are not concentrated with 1 examiner, requiring a strategy that addresses the specific tendencies of each individual examiner and art unit separately to ensure successful outcomes.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZARKA, DAVID PETER | 1 | 82.4% | +13.9% |
| RASHID, HARUNUR | 1 | 75.9% | +36.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18809507 | BLOCKCHAIN BASED ACCESS TO DEVICES ON A NETWORK WITH LOCAL TOKEN ACQUISITION | ZARKA, DAVID PETER | 84d |
| 18391048 | BLOCKCHAIN BASED ACCESS TO DEVICES ON A NETWORK WITH LOCAL TOKEN ACQUISITION | RASHID, HARUNUR | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18809507 | BLOCKCHAIN BASED ACCESS TO DEVICES ON A NETWORK WITH LOCAL TOKEN ACQUISITION | ZARKA, DAVID PETER | 84d |
| 18391048 | BLOCKCHAIN BASED ACCESS TO DEVICES ON A NETWORK WITH LOCAL TOKEN ACQUISITION | RASHID, HARUNUR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2449 | 1 |
| 2497 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18809507 | BLOCKCHAIN BASED ACCESS TO DEVICES ON A NETWORK WITH LOCAL TOKEN ACQUISITION | ZARKA, DAVID PETER | 2449 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18391048 | BLOCKCHAIN BASED ACCESS TO DEVICES ON A NETWORK WITH LOCAL TOKEN ACQUISITION | RASHID, HARUNUR | 2497 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
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