Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hyland UK Operations Limited is navigating 3 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is currently reviewing a single matter. This distribution occurs across 2 distinct art units, suggesting a technical scope that spans multiple classifications.
The busiest examiner, WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M, is responsible for 1 pending action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 3 and there are 3 distinct examiners, the workload is spread across several individuals. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the Computing & Software area while managing these distinct examiner relationships across the 2 identified art units. The involvement of WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M and other examiners requires a tailored approach for each application.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M | 1 | 53.9% | +25.8% |
| LE, UYEN T | 1 | 83.9% | +9.5% |
| CHOY, KA SHAN | 1 | 93.1% | +10.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18950296 | APPLICATION OF SECURITY PARAMETERS FOR CONTENT | CHOY, KA SHAN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19027128 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING DIGITAL CONTENT GOVERNANCE IN AN ORGANIZATION | LE, UYEN T | 30d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19028479 | PERMISSIONS-CONSTRAINED DYNAMIC FACETING OF SEARCH RESULTS IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M | 33d |
| 18950296 | APPLICATION OF SECURITY PARAMETERS FOR CONTENT | CHOY, KA SHAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2156 | 2 |
| 2435 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19028479 | PERMISSIONS-CONSTRAINED DYNAMIC FACETING OF SEARCH RESULTS IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M | 2156 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19027128 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING DIGITAL CONTENT GOVERNANCE IN AN ORGANIZATION | LE, UYEN T | 2156 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18950296 | APPLICATION OF SECURITY PARAMETERS FOR CONTENT | CHOY, KA SHAN | 2435 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
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