Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation Chosun University has 2 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. The prosecution is occurring across 2 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the university's networking and security research is being evaluated by different specialized groups, which may result in varying examination timelines and requirements.
CHAO, MICHAEL W is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split. Each examiner is responsible for 1 of the 2 pending actions, which provides a decentralized approach to the university's current patent prosecution in this technology area.
The use of 2 distinct art units indicates that the university's applications may cover different aspects of networking and security that fall under separate technical classifications. Practitioners should coordinate their efforts to ensure that arguments made in one art unit do not negatively impact the application in the other unit.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAO, MICHAEL W | 1 | 70.1% | +39.7% |
| UDDIN, MD I | 1 | 77.1% | +73.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18498667 | APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH NEURAL NETWORK OPERATION OF HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTED DATA | CHAO, MICHAEL W | — |
| 18470589 | APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH ENCRYPTED DATA NEURAL NETWORK OPERATION | UDDIN, MD I | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18498667 | APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH NEURAL NETWORK OPERATION OF HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTED DATA | CHAO, MICHAEL W | — |
| 18470589 | APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH ENCRYPTED DATA NEURAL NETWORK OPERATION | UDDIN, MD I | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2492 | 1 |
| 2169 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18498667 | APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH NEURAL NETWORK OPERATION OF HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTED DATA | CHAO, MICHAEL W | 2492 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 18470589 | APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH ENCRYPTED DATA NEURAL NETWORK OPERATION | UDDIN, MD I | 2169 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
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