Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Industry-Academia Cooperation Group Of Sejong University currently has 1 pending office action in the Networking & Security technology area. This single active matter indicates a specific research focus within the university's intellectual property portfolio. The concentration of effort in networking and security suggests a specialized technological priority for the institution's current filings.
The prosecution environment for this portfolio is very narrow, featuring 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This structure implies that the university's pending claims are being evaluated by a single official within a specialized division of the USPTO. Such a centralized process means that the university's immediate patent goals are dependent on the technical interpretations of that 1 distinct art unit.
SALTARELLI, DOMINIC D is the busiest examiner for the university, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Because this examiner is the only one assigned to the company's active matters, their specific examination style is the primary influence on the portfolio's progress. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of this examiner to successfully advance the 1 pending office action within the Networking & Security field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SALTARELLI, DOMINIC D | 1 | 79.1% | +14.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18628969 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE BY USING GEOMETRIC PARTITIONING | SALTARELLI, DOMINIC D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2421 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18628969 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE BY USING GEOMETRIC PARTITIONING | SALTARELLI, DOMINIC D | 2421 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialIndustry-Academia Cooperation Group Of Sejong University has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Dominic D Saltarelli has the most, with 1 of Industry-Academia Cooperation Group Of Sejong University's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
