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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Geofrenzy Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Networking & Security technology area. This specific portfolio is concentrated under a distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. SHINGLES, KRISTIE D is identified as the busiest examiner for this company, currently overseeing the matter. The focus on a unique art unit suggests a narrow technological scope for the active prosecution. Having a solitary examiner handle the entire workload provides a consistent point of contact for the applicant. This official, SHINGLES, KRISTIE D, is responsible for the feedback currently active.
The presence of a unique art unit indicates that the prosecution is centralized within a specific regulatory group. This centralization can lead to more predictable outcomes as the applicant interacts with a limited number of USPTO staff. With the current pending workload, the administrative burden on the company is limited to a single matter. The alignment of the active matter with a single examiner ensures that all current feedback originates from the same source. This structure allows for a focused response strategy within the Networking & Security sector. The distinct art unit and examiner represent the entirety of the company's current interaction with the patent office.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHINGLES, KRISTIE D | 1 | 82.1% | +13.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18938952 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GEOFENCE NETWORKS | SHINGLES, KRISTIE D | 35d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18938952 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GEOFENCE NETWORKS | SHINGLES, KRISTIE D | 35d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2453 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18938952 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GEOFENCE NETWORKS | SHINGLES, KRISTIE D | 2453 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
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