Technology area: Networking & Security
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
The company patent portfolio for Ipla Holdings Inc. currently shows 4 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical subject matter. POWERS, WILLIAM S is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This spread of 4 pending office actions across 4 distinct examiners suggests that the company is not facing a bottleneck with any single individual.
For a practitioner, the use of 4 distinct art units means that the prosecution strategy must be tailored to different technical standards within the Networking & Security field. Because 1 busiest examiner pending action is the maximum handled by any one person, the portfolio's progress is not overly dependent on POWERS, WILLIAM S. This distribution across 4 distinct art units provides a broader base for the company's intellectual property strategy. Managing 4 pending office actions requires coordination to ensure consistent messaging across the different examiners. This profile for Ipla Holdings Inc. reflects a diversified approach to its ongoing patent prosecution efforts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POWERS, WILLIAM S | 1 | 79.7% | +2.1% |
| JAVAID, JAMAL | 1 | 88.5% | +5.9% |
| RAZA, MUHAMMAD A | 1 | 56.1% | +68.7% |
| BLAIR, DOUGLAS B | 1 | 72.5% | +7.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18961523 | HARQ FEEDBACK FOR GROUPCAST ON NEW RADIO UU INTERFACE | JAVAID, JAMAL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18863447 | DATA COLLECTION ENABLEMENT SERVICE | RAZA, MUHAMMAD A | 9d |
| 18304013 | SERVICE LAYER METHODS FOR OFFLOADING IOT APPLICATION MESSAGE GENERATION AND RESPONSE HANDLING | BLAIR, DOUGLAS B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18863447 | DATA COLLECTION ENABLEMENT SERVICE | RAZA, MUHAMMAD A | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2496 | 1 |
| 2412 | 1 |
| 2449 | 1 |
| 2454 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18965180 | SECURITY LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT OF DEVICES IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK | POWERS, WILLIAM S | 2496 | DP | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18961523 | HARQ FEEDBACK FOR GROUPCAST ON NEW RADIO UU INTERFACE | JAVAID, JAMAL | 2412 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18863447 | DATA COLLECTION ENABLEMENT SERVICE | RAZA, MUHAMMAD A | 2449 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18304013 | SERVICE LAYER METHODS FOR OFFLOADING IOT APPLICATION MESSAGE GENERATION AND RESPONSE HANDLING | BLAIR, DOUGLAS B | 2454 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialIpla Holdings Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
William S Powers has the most, with 1 of Ipla Holdings Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
