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
Mimecast North America Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, with each examiner assigned to one of the cases. Both pending matters are located within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a high degree of technical focus for the company's current patenting activities.
PLECHA, THADDEUS J is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending case. Since there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is perfectly distributed, and no single examiner has more than one case. For the practitioner, this means that while the technical environment of the 1 distinct art unit is consistent, they must still navigate the individual preferences of 2 different examiners.
The concentration of 2 pending office actions in 1 distinct art unit allows the practitioner to maintain a consistent technical narrative across the portfolio. However, the involvement of 2 distinct examiners requires separate lines of communication. The fact that the busiest examiner, PLECHA, THADDEUS J, only handles 1 pending case confirms that the current prosecution effort is split between the assigned examiners. This structure requires a tailored approach for each of the 2 pending office actions within the Networking & Security area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUNGUIA, DUILIO | 1 | 71.4% | +66.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18516451 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED VISUALIZATION OF EXFILTRATION ACTIVITIES | MUNGUIA, DUILIO | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2497 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18516451 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED VISUALIZATION OF EXFILTRATION ACTIVITIES | MUNGUIA, DUILIO | 2497 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
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