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
Gdc Technology (Shenzhen) Limited maintains a focused patent portfolio within the Networking & Security technology area. Currently, the company has 1 pending office action under review. This action is managed by 1 distinct examiner, indicating a concentrated prosecution pipeline at this stage. The prosecution activity is localized within 1 distinct art unit.
The busiest examiner identified in the portfolio is LIMA, FABIO S, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner handles the entirety of the company's current workload in this category. Practitioners should note that the workload is not distributed across multiple personnel or departments. The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests that the current legal strategy is focused on a specific niche or a limited set of filings.
This concentration allows for a direct relationship with the examiner LIMA, FABIO S, though it also means the portfolio's immediate progress depends on the throughput of this individual. The lack of diversity in art units suggests a narrow technical scope for the current active matters. The 1 pending office action indicates a low volume of active conflict at the patent office, allowing for a concentrated legal effort on this specific application. The progress of the company's current filings is tied to the specific examination patterns of LIMA, FABIO S, who manages 1 pending office action.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIMA, FABIO S | 1 | 77.2% | +14.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18900539 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR ENCODING AND PLAYBACK OF HIGHER RESOLUTION DIGITAL CINEMA CONTENT | LIMA, FABIO S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2486 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18900539 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR ENCODING AND PLAYBACK OF HIGHER RESOLUTION DIGITAL CINEMA CONTENT | LIMA, FABIO S | 2486 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
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