Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Marvell Israel (M I S L) Ltd. currently has 3 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These 3 actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, all of whom are located in 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of all 3 distinct examiners in 1 distinct art unit indicates a specific technical focus for the company's current prosecution activities. This allows the practitioner to develop a deep understanding of the specific art unit's approach to Networking & Security patents while managing 3 pending office actions.
CHU, WUTCHUNG is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Since each of the 3 distinct examiners is handling exactly 1 of the 3 pending office actions, the workload is distributed. Practitioners can benefit from this structure by observing how different examiners within the same art unit react to similar technical disclosures. This provides a broader perspective on the art unit's standards than a portfolio assigned to only 1 distinct examiner would offer.
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%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHU, WUTCHUNG | 1 | 81.0% | +18.4% |
| ELLIOTT IV, BENJAMIN H | 1 | 89.0% | -0.7% |
| FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH | 1 | 60.9% | +15.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18823246 | CENTRALIZED CONTROL OF TIME GATES FOR TIME SENSITIVE NETWORKING (TSN) | CHU, WUTCHUNG | — |
| 18815655 | DYNAMIC ONE-STEP/TWO-STEP TIMESTAMPING PER PACKET IN NETWORK DEVICES | ELLIOTT IV, BENJAMIN H | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17751398 | FLEXIBLE HEADER ALTERATION IN NETWORK DEVICES | FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH | 29d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17751398 | FLEXIBLE HEADER ALTERATION IN NETWORK DEVICES | FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH | 29d |
| 18823246 | CENTRALIZED CONTROL OF TIME GATES FOR TIME SENSITIVE NETWORKING (TSN) | CHU, WUTCHUNG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2411 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18823246 | CENTRALIZED CONTROL OF TIME GATES FOR TIME SENSITIVE NETWORKING (TSN) | CHU, WUTCHUNG | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18815655 | DYNAMIC ONE-STEP/TWO-STEP TIMESTAMPING PER PACKET IN NETWORK DEVICES | ELLIOTT IV, BENJAMIN H | — | DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 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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