Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 1 of 5 (20%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
HFI Innovation Inc. is currently managing 5 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's networking technologies are being evaluated by several different technical groups and individual reviewers at the patent office.
The presence of 5 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units suggests a moderate level of technical diversity within the company's current filings. With 4 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage multiple simultaneous dialogues, though the workload is relatively concentrated given the small number of total actions.
HASAN, MAINUL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 2 pending office actions. This examiner is responsible for a significant portion of the company's 5 total pending office actions. The remaining actions are distributed among the other distinct examiners, showing that most examiners are only reviewing a single case for HFI Innovation Inc. at this time.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (60%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HASAN, MAINUL | 2 | 75.9% | +23.4% |
| LEE, Y YOUNG | 1 | 48.5% | +25.8% |
| CHIO, TAT CHI | 1 | 72.9% | +17.6% |
| BECK, LERON | 1 | 80.2% | +11.0% |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18970104 | METHODS FOR SIGNALING VIRTUAL BOUNDARIES AND WRAP-AROUND MOTION COMPENSATION | CHIO, TAT CHI | 10d overdue |
| 19262781 | SIGN DATA HIDING OF VIDEO RECORDING | LEE, Y YOUNG | — |
| 19046972 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING PREDICTION WEIGHT FOR MERGE MODE | HASAN, MAINUL | — |
| 19040676 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING VIDEO CONTENT | HASAN, MAINUL | — |
| 18156762 | METHOD FOR APPARATUS FOR DERIVING MAXIMUM SUB-BLOCK TRANSFORM SIZE | BECK, LERON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2485 | 2 |
| 2486 | 1 |
| 2487 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19262781 | SIGN DATA HIDING OF VIDEO RECORDING | LEE, Y YOUNG | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2025 |
| 19046972 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING PREDICTION WEIGHT FOR MERGE MODE | HASAN, MAINUL | 2485 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 19040676 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING VIDEO CONTENT | HASAN, MAINUL | 2485 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 18970104 | METHODS FOR SIGNALING VIRTUAL BOUNDARIES AND WRAP-AROUND MOTION COMPENSATION | CHIO, TAT CHI | 2486 | Other | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | AI Ready | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 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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