Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nanjing Semidrive Technology Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Networking & Security technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This reflects a singular and focused point of examination for the company's current patent applications. For a practitioner, this means that the entire prosecution strategy is focused on the standards of a single art unit and the specific expectations of one examiner.
WICKRAMASURIYA, SAMEERA is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 pending office action. This examiner handles the entirety of the company's pending action. The presence of 1 distinct art unit for this action indicates that the networking technology is being evaluated within a single specialized group. This structure allows for a highly focused dialogue between the practitioner and the examiner, as there are no other pending matters or examiners to coordinate with at this time.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WICKRAMASURIYA, SAMEERA | 1 | 75.4% | +33.9% |
| BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 1 | 81.3% | +11.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18159134 | TARGET DETECTION METHOD, TARGET DETECTION MODEL TRAINING METHOD, AND DEVICE | BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 83d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18423921 | DATA ACCESS METHOD, RELATED DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | WICKRAMASURIYA, SAMEERA | 49d overdue |
| 18159134 | TARGET DETECTION METHOD, TARGET DETECTION MODEL TRAINING METHOD, AND DEVICE | BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 83d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2494 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18423921 | DATA ACCESS METHOD, RELATED DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | WICKRAMASURIYA, SAMEERA | 2494 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18159134 | TARGET DETECTION METHOD, TARGET DETECTION MODEL TRAINING METHOD, AND DEVICE | BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 2662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Jan 25, 2023 |
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