Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Idemia Public Security France has 1 pending office action in the Networking & Security technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit and is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. ROBERT B LEUNG is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently holding the 1 pending office action.
The company's prosecution activity is concentrated on this 1 pending matter. Practitioners should focus on the specific examiner's history and the 1 art unit's standards to advance this application. With only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate patent goals are tied to a single individual's review. This allows for a very targeted response to the office action, focusing exclusively on the technical hurdles present in the networking sector. The simplicity of the current portfolio means that the outcome of this pending action is the primary indicator of current prosecution success.
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 only | 1 (50%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MALINOWSKI, WALTER J | 1 | 69.9% | +52.1% |
| LEUNG, ROBERT B | 1 | 84.6% | +17.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19222490 | BIOMETRIC ENCODING METHOD AND TERMINAL | MALINOWSKI, WALTER J | — |
| 19183191 | COMPARISON OF BIOMETRIC DATA IN THE ENCRYPTED DOMAIN | LEUNG, ROBERT B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19222490 | BIOMETRIC ENCODING METHOD AND TERMINAL | MALINOWSKI, WALTER J | — |
| 19183191 | COMPARISON OF BIOMETRIC DATA IN THE ENCRYPTED DOMAIN | LEUNG, ROBERT B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2439 | 1 |
| 2494 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19222490 | BIOMETRIC ENCODING METHOD AND TERMINAL | MALINOWSKI, WALTER J | 2439 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19183191 | COMPARISON OF BIOMETRIC DATA IN THE ENCRYPTED DOMAIN | LEUNG, ROBERT B | 2494 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
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