Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Invincea Inc. currently has 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 examiner, HOFFMAN, BRANDON S. The data shows 0 distinct art units associated with this portfolio, which is common for a single active application. HOFFMAN, BRANDON S is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action.
Because the company only has 1 pending office action, this examiner is the only individual currently reviewing their applications. The presence of 1 distinct examiner for this single matter represents the total active prosecution for the company. This focused activity means that the company's current patent efforts are entirely dependent on the review of this one examiner, without any other pending cases to provide additional prosecution data.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOFFMAN, BRANDON S | 1 | 90.5% | +6.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19242555 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MACHINE LEARNING BASED MALWARE DETECTION | HOFFMAN, BRANDON S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2433 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19242555 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MACHINE LEARNING BASED MALWARE DETECTION | HOFFMAN, BRANDON S | 2433 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialInvincea Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Brandon S Hoffman has the most, with 1 of Invincea Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.