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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ghost Pass Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's current patent filings cover a range of technical sub-specialties within the networking and security sector, requiring review from different specialized groups at the USPTO.
CELANI, NICHOLAS P is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This examiner handles a portion of the company's 2 pending office actions. The remaining pending matter is assigned to the other distinct examiner and the second distinct art unit. This arrangement means that each pending application is being reviewed in a unique administrative environment.
The presence of 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending office actions suggests a high degree of technical diversity in the company's current prosecution. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution strategy must be tailored to the specific requirements and prior art landscapes of two different examination groups. The company's intellectual property success is currently split between these two independent paths.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CELANI, NICHOLAS P | 1 | 45.8% | +42.3% |
| HUSSEIN, HASSAN A | 1 | 60.1% | +52.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17515290 | IDENTITY AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM | HUSSEIN, HASSAN A | 79d |
| 18504298 | Electronic Device for Performing User Authentication by Using User Biometric Information and Operation Method Thereof | CELANI, NICHOLAS P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2449 | 1 |
| 2497 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18504298 | Electronic Device for Performing User Authentication by Using User Biometric Information and Operation Method Thereof | CELANI, NICHOLAS P | 2449 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 17515290 | IDENTITY AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM | HUSSEIN, HASSAN A | 2497 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 79d | Pending | Oct 29, 2021 |
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