Technology area: Networking & Security
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Marvell Israel (M I S L) Ltd. currently has 4 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, meaning each matter is under the review of a different person. The prosecution is also spread across 4 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse range of technical focuses within the company's networking filings. CHANG, TOM Y is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with a pending office action currently assigned.
For practitioners, this requires a strategy that addresses four different examiner styles and four sets of art unit standards. The lack of concentration among the 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units suggests that the company's current active filings in Networking & Security are technically varied. Each of the 4 pending office actions represents a separate and unique prosecution path. Because the 4 pending office actions are perfectly distributed, the company's success is not tied to a single examiner's perspective but rather to a broad range of USPTO interactions across 4 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, TOM Y | 1 | 53.4% | +20.0% |
| CHU, WUTCHUNG | 1 | 81.0% | +18.6% |
| FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH | 1 | 61.3% | +14.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18823246 | CENTRALIZED CONTROL OF TIME GATES FOR TIME SENSITIVE NETWORKING (TSN) | CHU, WUTCHUNG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17751398 | FLEXIBLE HEADER ALTERATION IN NETWORK DEVICES | FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH | 29d |
| 18892720 | DYNAMIC ONE-STEP/TWO-STEP TIMESTAMPING PER PACKET IN NETWORK DEVICES | CHANG, TOM Y | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17751398 | FLEXIBLE HEADER ALTERATION IN NETWORK DEVICES | FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH | 29d |
| 18892720 | DYNAMIC ONE-STEP/TWO-STEP TIMESTAMPING PER PACKET IN NETWORK DEVICES | CHANG, TOM Y | — |
| 18823246 | CENTRALIZED CONTROL OF TIME GATES FOR TIME SENSITIVE NETWORKING (TSN) | CHU, WUTCHUNG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2441 | 1 |
| 2418 | 1 |
| 2411 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18892720 | DYNAMIC ONE-STEP/TWO-STEP TIMESTAMPING PER PACKET IN NETWORK DEVICES | CHANG, TOM Y | 2441 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18823246 | CENTRALIZED CONTROL OF TIME GATES FOR TIME SENSITIVE NETWORKING (TSN) | CHU, WUTCHUNG | 2418 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 17751398 | FLEXIBLE HEADER ALTERATION IN NETWORK DEVICES | FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH | 2411 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | May 23, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMarvell Israel (M I S L) Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Tom Y Chang has the most, with 1 of Marvell Israel (M I S L) Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
