Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Inscape Data Inc. is currently managing 6 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These active matters are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, which indicates a small amount of overlap in the personnel reviewing the company's applications. The portfolio is active across 4 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's software innovations are being evaluated by several different specialized technical groups at the patent office. This distribution requires navigating multiple sets of procedural and technical standards to resolve the 6 pending office actions.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is BITAR, NANCY, who is currently handling 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This individual manages a larger share of the workload compared to the other 5 distinct examiners involved. With 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units involved, the prosecution environment is relatively focused. Practitioners can prioritize their interactions with the busiest examiner to move the active cases forward.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (17%) |
| §103 only | 3 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BITAR, NANCY | 2 | 82.7% | +7.7% |
| HERSHLEY, MARK E | 1 | 78.3% | +18.7% |
| OBERLY, VAN HONG | 1 | 75.2% | +15.5% |
| OBISESAN, AUGUSTINE KUNLE | 1 | 63.6% | +20.8% |
| HUERTA, ALEXANDER Q | 1 | 68.0% | +11.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18828986 | EMBEDDING VIDEO WATERMARKS WITHOUT VISIBLE IMPAIRMENTS | BITAR, NANCY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19252068 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARTITIONING SEARCH INDEXES FOR IMPROVED EFFICIENCY IN IDENTIFYING MEDIA SEGMENTS | OBERLY, VAN HONG | — |
| 18889754 | EMBEDDING DATA IN VIDEO WITHOUT VISIBLE IMPAIRMENTS | BITAR, NANCY | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19219092 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS MEDIA SEGMENT IDENTIFICATION | OBISESAN, AUGUSTINE KUNLE | 20d |
| 19364521 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING WORK LOAD MANAGEMENT IN ACR TELEVISION MONITORING SYSTEM | HERSHLEY, MARK E | — |
| 19252068 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARTITIONING SEARCH INDEXES FOR IMPROVED EFFICIENCY IN IDENTIFYING MEDIA SEGMENTS | OBERLY, VAN HONG | — |
| 18974328 | METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING VIDEO SEGMENTS AND DISPLAYING OPTION TO VIEW FROM AN ALTERNATIVE SOURCE AND/OR ON AN ALTERNATIVE DEVICE | HUERTA, ALEXANDER Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2164 | 1 |
| 2166 | 1 |
| 2156 | 1 |
| 2425 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19364521 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING WORK LOAD MANAGEMENT IN ACR TELEVISION MONITORING SYSTEM | HERSHLEY, MARK E | 2164 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2025 |
| 19252068 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARTITIONING SEARCH INDEXES FOR IMPROVED EFFICIENCY IN IDENTIFYING MEDIA SEGMENTS | OBERLY, VAN HONG | 2166 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19219092 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS MEDIA SEGMENT IDENTIFICATION | OBISESAN, AUGUSTINE KUNLE | 2156 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 18974328 | METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING VIDEO SEGMENTS AND DISPLAYING OPTION TO VIEW FROM AN ALTERNATIVE SOURCE AND/OR ON AN ALTERNATIVE DEVICE | HUERTA, ALEXANDER Q | 2425 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18889754 | EMBEDDING DATA IN VIDEO WITHOUT VISIBLE IMPAIRMENTS | BITAR, NANCY | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18828986 | EMBEDDING VIDEO WATERMARKS WITHOUT VISIBLE IMPAIRMENTS | BITAR, NANCY | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
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