Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
12 pending office actions • 9 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Malikie Innovations Limited has 11 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These 11 actions are distributed among 11 distinct examiners, resulting in a unique examiner for every pending matter. The portfolio spans 8 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of networking and security technologies. The 8 distinct art units involved suggest that the company's innovations are being evaluated by several different specialized groups, each with its own technical focus for the 11 pending office actions.
The busiest examiner is HUANG, JAY, who is managing 1 pending office action. With 11 distinct examiners for 11 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly distributed across the group. For the practitioner, this means managing 11 separate examiner relationships simultaneously. The involvement of 8 distinct art units requires the prosecution team to adapt to the different technical standards and procedural nuances of each specific unit while handling the company's networking and security applications. The workload of 1 pending office action for HUANG, JAY is the standard for this portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 6 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (25%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUANG, JAY | 1 | 53.0% | +20.7% |
| BEAMER, TEMICA M | 1 | 88.4% | +4.2% |
| DSOUZA, JOSEPH FRANCIS A | 1 | 86.1% | +10.4% |
| GENACK, MATTHEW W | 1 | 64.5% | +21.6% |
| NOWLIN, ERIC | 1 | 88.3% | +5.8% |
| ANSARI, NAJEEBUDDIN | 1 | 64.1% | +57.6% |
| DUFFY, JAMES P | 1 | 77.3% | -7.7% |
| POWERS, WILLIAM S | 1 | 79.7% | +2.4% |
| SMITH, JOSHUA Y | 1 | 68.6% | +25.9% |
| ELPENORD, CANDAL | 1 | 89.7% | +12.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19027663 | NETWORK ADDRESS POLICY INFORMATION RECEIVED IN A PRE-ASSOCIATED STATE | BEAMER, TEMICA M | — |
| 18807016 | USING A CELL AS A PATHLOSS OR TIMING REFERENCE | NOWLIN, ERIC | — |
| 18211457 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RELEASING CONNECTION WITH LOCAL GW WHEN UE MOVES OUT OF THE RESIDENTIAL/ENTERPRISE NETWORK COVERAGE | ELPENORD, CANDAL | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18321942 | System and Method for Restricting System and Application Software Available for Installation on a Managed Mobile Device | AGUILERA, TODD | 40d |
| 19224140 | Electronic Payment System Including Merchant Server and Associated Methods | HUANG, JAY | 41d |
| 18888307 | CONTEXT SENSITIVE MESSAGE NOTIFICATIONS | GENACK, MATTHEW W | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18402826 | MULTI-SITE MIMO COOPERATION IN CELLULAR NETWORKS | SMITH, JOSHUA Y | 30d overdue |
| 19224140 | Electronic Payment System Including Merchant Server and Associated Methods | HUANG, JAY | 41d |
| 18657467 | PLMN Selection for Mission Critical Devices | ANSARI, NAJEEBUDDIN | 41d |
| 18944111 | SENDING LOCATION INFORMATION FROM WITHIN A COMMUNICATION APPLICATION | DSOUZA, JOSEPH FRANCIS A | — |
| 18888307 | CONTEXT SENSITIVE MESSAGE NOTIFICATIONS | GENACK, MATTHEW W | — |
| 18211457 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RELEASING CONNECTION WITH LOCAL GW WHEN UE MOVES OUT OF THE RESIDENTIAL/ENTERPRISE NETWORK COVERAGE | ELPENORD, CANDAL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 1 |
| 2642 | 1 |
| 2463 | 1 |
| 2461 | 1 |
| 2496 | 1 |
| 2477 | 1 |
| 2473 | 1 |
| 2192 | 1 |
| 2191 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19224140 | Electronic Payment System Including Merchant Server and Associated Methods | HUANG, JAY | 3619 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19027663 | NETWORK ADDRESS POLICY INFORMATION RECEIVED IN A PRE-ASSOCIATED STATE | BEAMER, TEMICA M | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18944111 | SENDING LOCATION INFORMATION FROM WITHIN A COMMUNICATION APPLICATION | DSOUZA, JOSEPH FRANCIS A | 2642 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18888307 | CONTEXT SENSITIVE MESSAGE NOTIFICATIONS | GENACK, MATTHEW W | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18807016 | USING A CELL AS A PATHLOSS OR TIMING REFERENCE | NOWLIN, ERIC | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18657467 | PLMN Selection for Mission Critical Devices | ANSARI, NAJEEBUDDIN | 2463 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18441407 | UPLINK POWER SHARING CONTROL | DUFFY, JAMES P | 2461 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
| 18418659 | REVOKING CREDENTIALS AFTER SERVICE ACCESS | POWERS, WILLIAM S | 2496 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18402826 | MULTI-SITE MIMO COOPERATION IN CELLULAR NETWORKS | SMITH, JOSHUA Y | 2477 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jan 03, 2024 |
| 18211457 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RELEASING CONNECTION WITH LOCAL GW WHEN UE MOVES OUT OF THE RESIDENTIAL/ENTERPRISE NETWORK COVERAGE | ELPENORD, CANDAL | 2473 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2023 |
| 18321942 | System and Method for Restricting System and Application Software Available for Installation on a Managed Mobile Device | AGUILERA, TODD | 2192 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
| 18081784 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING SOFTWARE UPDATES ON A NETWORK CONNECTED DEVICE | BROPHY, MATTHEW J | 2191 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Dec 15, 2022 |
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