Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Idemia Identity & Security France has 4 pending office actions distributed across the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are spread among 4 distinct examiners, indicating a high degree of examiner diversity relative to the total volume of pending matters. This distribution suggests that the company is engaging with a variety of perspectives within the patent office rather than having its applications concentrated under a single individual.
The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units, which implies that the pending office actions cover at least two different sub-specialties within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. WU, JAMES is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no single examiner holds more than 1 of the 4 pending actions, as the workload is divided among the 4 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration may require the applicant to manage multiple different examiner styles simultaneously across the 2 distinct art units.
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 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WU, JAMES | 1 | 70.7% | +33.3% |
| HOSSAIN, FARZANA E | 1 | 65.5% | +18.2% |
| GERGISO, TECHANE | 1 | 84.6% | +24.1% |
| REVAK, CHRISTOPHER A | 1 | 89.2% | +8.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18645601 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING BIOMETRIC DATA, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | GERGISO, TECHANE | 30d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18921063 | SHELL FOR A PORTABLE FINGERPRINT AND/OR PALMPRINT ACQUISITION DEVICE | WU, JAMES | 75d |
| 18891008 | METHOD FOR DETECTING AND COUNTING INDIVIDUALS IN A CROWD | HOSSAIN, FARZANA E | — |
| 18334729 | DISTRIBUTED-COMPUTING METHOD FOR COMPUTING A METRIC REPRESENTATIVE OF A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO DATA | REVAK, CHRISTOPHER A | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18645601 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING BIOMETRIC DATA, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | GERGISO, TECHANE | 30d overdue |
| 18921063 | SHELL FOR A PORTABLE FINGERPRINT AND/OR PALMPRINT ACQUISITION DEVICE | WU, JAMES | 75d |
| 18891008 | METHOD FOR DETECTING AND COUNTING INDIVIDUALS IN A CROWD | HOSSAIN, FARZANA E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2841 | 1 |
| 2408 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18921063 | SHELL FOR A PORTABLE FINGERPRINT AND/OR PALMPRINT ACQUISITION DEVICE | WU, JAMES | 2841 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18891008 | METHOD FOR DETECTING AND COUNTING INDIVIDUALS IN A CROWD | HOSSAIN, FARZANA E | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18645601 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING BIOMETRIC DATA, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | GERGISO, TECHANE | 2408 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18334729 | DISTRIBUTED-COMPUTING METHOD FOR COMPUTING A METRIC REPRESENTATIVE OF A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO DATA | REVAK, CHRISTOPHER A | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
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