Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mbda UK Limited maintains 7 pending office actions focused in the Networking & Security technology area. The portfolio exhibits examiner diversity, as these actions are distributed across 7 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that prosecution efforts are broadly spread across the patent office rather than concentrated under a specific individual. Such a distribution can lead to varied prosecution experiences across the portfolio.
The organizational breadth of the portfolio is further evidenced by the involvement of several distinct art units. This variety indicates that the company's intellectual property in this sector touches upon several different technical classifications and examination standards. TRUONG, NGUYEN T is identified as the busiest examiner, although this individual is only managing 1 pending office action. This confirms that no examiner currently holds a disproportionate share of the company's active prosecution workload, requiring the company to navigate the preferences of many different officials simultaneously.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 5 (71%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| XU, XIAOLAN | 1 | 74.2% | +13.2% |
| FEREJA, SAMUEL D | 1 | 74.8% | +10.5% |
| FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G | 1 | 77.9% | +11.6% |
| STREGE, JOHN B | 1 | 87.0% | +13.8% |
| TRUONG, NGUYEN T | 1 | 82.8% | +8.4% |
| TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 1 | 83.1% | +10.5% |
| LAUGHLIN, CHARLES S | 1 | 76.5% | +9.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291467 | RADIATION DETECTION | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 29d overdue |
| 18875664 | METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING | STREGE, JOHN B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18875673 | METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING | XU, XIAOLAN | 28d overdue |
| 18875669 | METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING | TRUONG, NGUYEN T | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291467 | RADIATION DETECTION | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 29d overdue |
| 18875673 | METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING | XU, XIAOLAN | 28d overdue |
| 18875659 | METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING | FEREJA, SAMUEL D | — |
| 18875654 | METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING | FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G | — |
| 18875664 | METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING | STREGE, JOHN B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2488 | 1 |
| 2487 | 1 |
| 2482 | 1 |
| 2669 | 1 |
| 2486 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 2846 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18875673 | METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING | XU, XIAOLAN | 2488 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18875659 | METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING | FEREJA, SAMUEL D | 2487 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18875654 | METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING | FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G | 2482 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18875664 | METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING | STREGE, JOHN B | 2669 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18875669 | METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING | TRUONG, NGUYEN T | 2486 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18291467 | RADIATION DETECTION | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d overdue | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18008233 | A SERVO ACTUATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ACTUATING AN ARTICLE USING SUCH A SERVO ACTUATION SYSTEM | LAUGHLIN, CHARLES S | 2846 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Dec 05, 2022 |
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