Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hannibal Ip LLC has 4 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. All 4 of these actions are being reviewed by 4 distinct examiners, creating a scenario where every pending case is handled by a different person. Despite the variety of examiners, the entire portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very specific technical focus for these 4 pending office actions.
MILLER, SHAWN D is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently assigned 1 pending office action. This 1 action is the highest count for any single examiner in the group. The use of 4 distinct examiners within a single art unit is notable, as it implies that the 4 pending office actions are being evaluated by different individuals who likely share the same supervisory structure.
Practitioners should prepare for separate perspectives on the Networking & Security technology, even though the cases reside in 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner, MILLER, SHAWN D, only manages 1 of the 4 pending office actions, ensuring that no single examiner dominates the prosecution of this portfolio. This distribution of 4 pending office actions across 4 distinct examiners may lead to different outcomes for similar technologies.
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 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER, SHAWN D | 1 | 95.6% | +6.2% |
| SIDDIQUI, KASHIF | 1 | 88.0% | +8.6% |
| LOPATA, ROBERT J | 1 | 89.5% | +1.9% |
| LEE, CHAE S | 1 | 87.6% | +13.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18958574 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING LCP RESTRICTIONS AND HARQ PROCESS NUMBER | MILLER, SHAWN D | — |
| 18816269 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIDELINK OPERATION | SIDDIQUI, KASHIF | — |
| 18806268 | SCHEDULING FOR POWER SAVING STATE IN NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS NETWORKS | LOPATA, ROBERT J | — |
| 18800595 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT | LEE, CHAE S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18800595 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT | LEE, CHAE S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2412 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18958574 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING LCP RESTRICTIONS AND HARQ PROCESS NUMBER | MILLER, SHAWN D | 2412 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18816269 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIDELINK OPERATION | SIDDIQUI, KASHIF | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18806268 | SCHEDULING FOR POWER SAVING STATE IN NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS NETWORKS | LOPATA, ROBERT J | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18800595 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT | LEE, CHAE S | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
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