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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mux Inc. has 3 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. The data shows that 3 distinct examiners are involved in these cases, but they are all located within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in a single art unit suggests a focused technological scope despite the involvement of multiple examiners. It allows the company to tailor its arguments to the specific standards and precedents of 1 distinct art unit while managing relationships with several reviewers. This can lead to a more predictable examination process over time.
YANG, NIEN is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As the portfolio contains 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the prosecution tasks are shared across multiple individuals. Practitioners should note that while they must navigate the preferences of 3 different individuals, the consistency of 1 distinct art unit may offer some predictability in the examination standards applied to the portfolio. Successfully resolving the pending office actions will require a coordinated effort that respects the individual perspectives of each of the 3 distinct examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, NIEN | 1 | 73.3% | +28.1% |
| CARTER, RICHARD BRUCE | 1 | 65.2% | +19.2% |
| DOAN, TAN | 1 | 73.1% | +23.9% |
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.
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18911066 | METHOD FOR DYNAMIC SELECTION OF A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK | DOAN, TAN | 22d |
| 19232625 | METHOD FOR SETTING RENDITION COUNT, BITRATES, AND RESOLUTIONS FOR TRANSCODING A VIDEO FILE | YANG, NIEN | — |
| 19083339 | METHOD FOR GENERATING VIDEO- AND AUDIENCE-SPECIFIC ENCODING LADDERS | CARTER, RICHARD BRUCE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2445 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19232625 | METHOD FOR SETTING RENDITION COUNT, BITRATES, AND RESOLUTIONS FOR TRANSCODING A VIDEO FILE | YANG, NIEN | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19083339 | METHOD FOR GENERATING VIDEO- AND AUDIENCE-SPECIFIC ENCODING LADDERS | CARTER, RICHARD BRUCE | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 18911066 | METHOD FOR DYNAMIC SELECTION OF A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK | DOAN, TAN | 2445 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
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