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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Glance Networks Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Networking & Security technology area. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. LITTLE, VANCE M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. This focused prosecution profile indicates a singular point of contact at the USPTO for the company's current Networking & Security filings. Having 1 pending office action allows the company to focus its resources on a single examiner's requirements.
The presence of 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current intellectual property strategy is highly concentrated. Practitioners can develop a very specific approach tailored to the preferences of LITTLE, VANCE M. This single pending office action in the Networking & Security sector represents the entirety of the company's current prosecution activity. The lack of multiple pending actions or art units simplifies the management of the portfolio, as there are no competing procedural demands from different USPTO divisions.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LITTLE, VANCE M | 1 | 83.9% | +24.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18938636 | Masking Sensitive Information While Screensharing HTML Elements | LITTLE, VANCE M | 16d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18938636 | Masking Sensitive Information While Screensharing HTML Elements | LITTLE, VANCE M | 16d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2494 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18938636 | Masking Sensitive Information While Screensharing HTML Elements | LITTLE, VANCE M | 2494 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
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