Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Ncipher Security Limited

3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (33%)
2
Medium (67%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (33%)
§103 only2 (67%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
100% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
VU, TAYLOR P 1 75.9% +13.3%
ALMEIDA, DEVIN E 1 71.3% +11.0%
LANIER, BENJAMIN E 1 69.2% +17.4%

Hard Cases (1)

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.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18563000 A SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR PERFORMING OPERATIONS ALMEIDA, DEVIN E 22d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18563000 A SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR PERFORMING OPERATIONS ALMEIDA, DEVIN E 22d
18851657 A DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING USE OF A CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEY VU, TAYLOR P 30d
18261505 A DEVICE AND A COMMUNICATION METHOD LANIER, BENJAMIN E 63d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2437 2
2492 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18851657 A DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING USE OF A CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEY VU, TAYLOR P 2437 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Sep 26, 2024
18563000 A SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR PERFORMING OPERATIONS ALMEIDA, DEVIN E 2492 §101 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Nov 21, 2023
18261505 A DEVICE AND A COMMUNICATION METHOD LANIER, BENJAMIN E 2437 §103 Final Rejection 63d Pending Jul 14, 2023

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