Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Mercury Analytics LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Networking & Security technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, YANG, NIEN, who is also identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The concentration of the portfolio is further evidenced by its presence in 1 distinct art unit.
Having 1 pending office action with YANG, NIEN suggests a concentrated prosecution effort. Because the busiest examiner pending count is also 1, this individual handles the company's current workload in this space. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific preferences of this 1 distinct examiner and the 1 distinct art unit involved. The 1 pending office action represents the full extent of the company's current interactions with the patent office in the Networking & Security technology area. This simplicity allows for a direct communication channel between the practitioner and the examiner. The 1 distinct art unit provides a consistent procedural environment for the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, NIEN | 1 | 73.3% | +28.1% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19032896 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING AND UTILIZING VIDEO DATA | YANG, NIEN | 28d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2484 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19032896 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING AND UTILIZING VIDEO DATA | YANG, NIEN | 2484 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
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