Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Icontrol Networks Inc. manages 2 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. Both of these actions are assigned to a single distinct examiner, TRUONG, LOAN, and are located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly centralized prosecution environment despite having multiple active matters.
TRUONG, LOAN is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 2 pending office actions. Because all 2 pending office actions are concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's prosecution strategy can be unified. This concentration allows for a consistent dialogue with the USPTO regarding the company's software innovations.
The presence of 2 pending office actions under 1 distinct examiner suggests that TRUONG, LOAN has significant influence over the company's current patent trajectory. Practitioners can focus their efforts on understanding the specific requirements and historical patterns of this single examiner. This streamlined approach within 1 distinct art unit minimizes the complexity often found in larger, more distributed portfolios.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRUONG, LOAN | 2 | 76.5% | +11.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17443427 | NOTIFICATION OF EVENT SUBSEQUENT TO COMMUNICATION FAILURE WITH SECURITY SYSTEM | TRUONG, LOAN | 27d |
| 18301923 | SERVER-BASED NOTIFICATION OF ALARM EVENT SUBSEQUENT TO COMMUNICATION FAILURE WITH ARMED SECURITY SYSTEM | TRUONG, LOAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2114 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18301923 | SERVER-BASED NOTIFICATION OF ALARM EVENT SUBSEQUENT TO COMMUNICATION FAILURE WITH ARMED SECURITY SYSTEM | TRUONG, LOAN | 2114 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2023 |
| 17443427 | NOTIFICATION OF EVENT SUBSEQUENT TO COMMUNICATION FAILURE WITH SECURITY SYSTEM | TRUONG, LOAN | 2114 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jul 26, 2021 |
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