Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Id Insight currently has 1 pending office action in the Networking & Security technology area. This single active matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution footprint. For a company in the networking sector, this means their current patenting efforts are focused on a specific technical challenge being reviewed by a single individual at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner, SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J, is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there is only 1 pending office action in the entire portfolio, SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J is the sole examiner the company must address. This allows the applicant to develop a very specific strategy tailored to the 1 distinct examiner's past decisions and the technical expectations of the 1 distinct art unit.
The focus on Networking & Security suggests that the 1 pending office action involves complex technical subject matter. Practitioners should analyze the specific feedback from SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J to resolve the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With only 1 distinct examiner and the single art unit involved, the company's immediate success is tied to navigating the specific requirements of this single administrative path without the need to manage multiple examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | 1 | 80.3% | +28.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17385302 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PRODUCT FOR FAST AND SECURE DATA SEARCHING | SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17385302 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PRODUCT FOR FAST AND SECURE DATA SEARCHING | SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2493 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17385302 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PRODUCT FOR FAST AND SECURE DATA SEARCHING | SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | 2493 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2021 |
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