Technology area: Networking & Security
9 pending office actions • 9 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Irdeto B.V. has 9 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The matters are distributed among 9 distinct examiners and 9 distinct art units, producing a broad examination footprint across the portfolio.
TABOR, AMARE F is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The absence of a larger examiner concentration means that docket management should emphasize independent matter tracking, consistent technical terminology, and careful review of each assigned art unit.
The distributed structure may require coordinated preparation by technology subject matter, even when prosecution responses remain application-specific. Counsel should identify recurring security, network, or claim-format issues across the records, then preserve arguments tailored to each examiner and art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (11%) |
| §103 only | 4 (44%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TABOR, AMARE F | 1 | 83.0% | +23.1% |
| HINTON, HENRY R | 1 | 74.1% | +34.8% |
| HALES, BRIAN J | 1 | 77.9% | +29.3% |
| ANDERSON, MICHAEL D | 1 | 80.1% | +15.1% |
| ZHANG, FAN | 1 | 55.3% | +16.4% |
| WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 1 | 83.7% | +10.4% |
| LAKHIA, VIRAL S | 1 | 87.6% | +19.7% |
| KNACKSTEDT, JACOB BENEDICT | 1 | 86.2% | +18.9% |
| LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER | 1 | 5.9% | +9.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18577194 | PROTECTED DATA PACKAGES | ANDERSON, MICHAEL D | 15d overdue |
| 18227589 | PROTECTION OF NEURAL NETWORKS AGAINST CLONING ATTACKS | KNACKSTEDT, JACOB BENEDICT | 4d overdue |
| 18917942 | Method and Apparatus for Plug and Charge Ecosystems with Multiple Service Providers | TABOR, AMARE F | — |
| 18240336 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING THE SECURITY OF SOFTWARE CODE THROUGH EXECUTION PATH DIVERSITY | LAKHIA, VIRAL S | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18811634 | DIGITAL KEY CONTROL SYSTEM | HINTON, HENRY R | 31d overdue |
| 18622460 | System and Method for Creating and Executing Secured Neural Networks | HALES, BRIAN J | — |
| 18368209 | MACHINE LEARNING MODEL PROTECTION | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
| 18089273 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND STORAGE MEDIA FOR CREATING SECURED COMPUTER CODE | LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18811634 | DIGITAL KEY CONTROL SYSTEM | HINTON, HENRY R | 31d overdue |
| 18577194 | PROTECTED DATA PACKAGES | ANDERSON, MICHAEL D | 15d overdue |
| 18227589 | PROTECTION OF NEURAL NETWORKS AGAINST CLONING ATTACKS | KNACKSTEDT, JACOB BENEDICT | 4d overdue |
| 18917942 | Method and Apparatus for Plug and Charge Ecosystems with Multiple Service Providers | TABOR, AMARE F | — |
| 18622460 | System and Method for Creating and Executing Secured Neural Networks | HALES, BRIAN J | — |
| 18380560 | IDENTIFYING WHETHER A SAMPLE WILL TRIGGER MISCLASSIFICATION FUNCTIONALITY OF A CLASSIFICATION MODEL | ZHANG, FAN | — |
| 18368209 | MACHINE LEARNING MODEL PROTECTION | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | — |
| 18240336 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING THE SECURITY OF SOFTWARE CODE THROUGH EXECUTION PATH DIVERSITY | LAKHIA, VIRAL S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2434 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 2125 | 1 |
| 2433 | 1 |
| 2682 | 1 |
| 2488 | 1 |
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2408 | 1 |
| 2496 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18917942 | Method and Apparatus for Plug and Charge Ecosystems with Multiple Service Providers | TABOR, AMARE F | 2434 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18811634 | DIGITAL KEY CONTROL SYSTEM | HINTON, HENRY R | 3665 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18622460 | System and Method for Creating and Executing Secured Neural Networks | HALES, BRIAN J | 2125 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18577194 | PROTECTED DATA PACKAGES | ANDERSON, MICHAEL D | 2433 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18380560 | IDENTIFYING WHETHER A SAMPLE WILL TRIGGER MISCLASSIFICATION FUNCTIONALITY OF A CLASSIFICATION MODEL | ZHANG, FAN | 2682 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
| 18368209 | MACHINE LEARNING MODEL PROTECTION | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY A | 2488 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18240336 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING THE SECURITY OF SOFTWARE CODE THROUGH EXECUTION PATH DIVERSITY | LAKHIA, VIRAL S | 2431 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 18227589 | PROTECTION OF NEURAL NETWORKS AGAINST CLONING ATTACKS | KNACKSTEDT, JACOB BENEDICT | 2408 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18089273 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND STORAGE MEDIA FOR CREATING SECURED COMPUTER CODE | LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER | 2496 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialIrdeto B.V. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 9 examiners.
Amare F Tabor has the most, with 1 of Irdeto B.V.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
