Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
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
Institut Polytechnique De Grenoble has 2 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing that the prosecution activity is distributed across separate technical examination settings.
JOHNSON, CARLTON is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A coordinated networking and security strategy can be paired with examiner-specific responses for each application.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, CARLTON | 1 | 58.0% | +33.0% |
| NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 1 | 71.5% | +19.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18006923 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE RHEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF A FLUID | NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 28d overdue |
| 18109815 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING MALWARES IN A RESOURCES CONSTRAINED DEVICE | JOHNSON, CARLTON | 36d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2436 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18109815 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING MALWARES IN A RESOURCES CONSTRAINED DEVICE | JOHNSON, CARLTON | 2436 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
| 18006923 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE RHEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF A FLUID | NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialInstitut Polytechnique De Grenoble has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Carlton Johnson has the most, with 1 of Institut Polytechnique De Grenoble's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
