Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 83 patents granted in the last 365 days
Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. has 8 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These matters are distributed across 7 distinct art units, indicating a very broad range of technical examination for the company's software innovations. This high ratio of 7 distinct art units to 8 pending office actions suggests that the portfolio covers many different specialized sub-fields of computing. Such a broad distribution can lead to varied prosecution timelines depending on the specific art unit workloads.
The company's prosecution involves 8 distinct examiners, meaning that every single pending action is being reviewed by a different official. WONG, HUEN is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because each of the 8 distinct examiners is responsible for exactly 1 action, the workload is perfectly distributed across the officials involved. This lack of examiner concentration means that the company's success in the Computing & Software area depends on the independent reviews of 8 different examiners. Practitioners should prepare for diverse examination styles across the 8 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (12%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (38%) |
| §103 only | 2 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WONG, HUEN | 1 | 60.1% | +46.1% |
| FARROW, FELICIA | 1 | 58.6% | +35.6% |
| THAMMAVONG, PRASITH | 1 | 86.9% | +7.4% |
| COLAN, GIOVANNA B | 1 | 72.5% | +29.1% |
| EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A | 1 | 42.9% | +40.4% |
| CADY, MATTHEW ALAN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| KIM, JONATHAN J | 1 | 63.6% | +50.0% |
| SHALABY, AHMAD HUSSAM | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739590 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK SERVICE ENTERPRISE COMPUTER GROUP PERMISSIONING | THAMMAVONG, PRASITH | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18539635 | SYSTEM AND METHOD CONFIGURED TO PERFORM FORENSIC ANALYSIS OF ELECTRONIC DATA USING SCORING | EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A | 72d overdue |
| 18049875 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFORMATION VALUE-BASED PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION APPLICATIONS | SHALABY, AHMAD HUSSAM | 11d overdue |
| 18189543 | INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS | CADY, MATTHEW ALAN | — |
| 17977807 | AUTOMATED ANOMALY DETECTION IN MULTI-STAGE PROCESSES | KIM, JONATHAN J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18539635 | SYSTEM AND METHOD CONFIGURED TO PERFORM FORENSIC ANALYSIS OF ELECTRONIC DATA USING SCORING | EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A | 72d overdue |
| 18657973 | QUERY MANAGEMENT TOOL AND METHODS | COLAN, GIOVANNA B | 37d overdue |
| 18969042 | DISTRIBUTED QUERY EXECUTION AND AGGREGATION INCLUDING HISTORICAL STATISTICAL ANALYSIS | WONG, HUEN | 20d |
| 18763325 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING ALERTS OVER A COMPUTER NETWORK | FARROW, FELICIA | 22d |
| 17977807 | AUTOMATED ANOMALY DETECTION IN MULTI-STAGE PROCESSES | KIM, JONATHAN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2168 | 1 |
| 2437 | 1 |
| 2165 | 1 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| 2145 | 1 |
| 2141 | 1 |
| 2187 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18969042 | DISTRIBUTED QUERY EXECUTION AND AGGREGATION INCLUDING HISTORICAL STATISTICAL ANALYSIS | WONG, HUEN | 2168 | §112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18763325 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING ALERTS OVER A COMPUTER NETWORK | FARROW, FELICIA | 2437 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18739590 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK SERVICE ENTERPRISE COMPUTER GROUP PERMISSIONING | THAMMAVONG, PRASITH | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18657973 | QUERY MANAGEMENT TOOL AND METHODS | COLAN, GIOVANNA B | 2165 | §103 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18539635 | SYSTEM AND METHOD CONFIGURED TO PERFORM FORENSIC ANALYSIS OF ELECTRONIC DATA USING SCORING | EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A | 3623 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18189543 | INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS | CADY, MATTHEW ALAN | 2145 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
| 17977807 | AUTOMATED ANOMALY DETECTION IN MULTI-STAGE PROCESSES | KIM, JONATHAN J | 2141 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2022 |
| 18049875 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFORMATION VALUE-BASED PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION APPLICATIONS | SHALABY, AHMAD HUSSAM | 2187 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Oct 26, 2022 |
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