Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
HFI Innovation Inc. has 1 pending office action in Networking & Security. The matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, giving the portfolio one active examination path.
BECK, LERON is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Prosecution review can focus on that action and on claim distinctions relevant to networking and security examination.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BENNETT, STUART D | 1 | 68.9% | -14.2% |
| BECK, LERON | 1 | 80.3% | +10.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18156762 | METHOD FOR APPARATUS FOR DERIVING MAXIMUM SUB-BLOCK TRANSFORM SIZE | BECK, LERON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18156762 | METHOD FOR APPARATUS FOR DERIVING MAXIMUM SUB-BLOCK TRANSFORM SIZE | BECK, LERON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2482 | 1 |
| 2487 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19369973 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIDEO CONTENT WITH ALF and CCALF | BENNETT, STUART D | 2482 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 18156762 | METHOD FOR APPARATUS FOR DERIVING MAXIMUM SUB-BLOCK TRANSFORM SIZE | BECK, LERON | 2487 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHFI Innovation Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Stuart D Bennett has the most, with 1 of HFI Innovation Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
