Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ncipher Security Limited is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, indicating that each matter is being reviewed by a different individual. However, both actions are housed within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a high degree of technical and administrative consistency within the USPTO's departmental structure for this portfolio.
TAYLOR P VU is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action currently under review. Given that there are the pending office actions and the distinct examiners, the workload is distributed such that no examiner is handling more than a single case. This means that while the 1 distinct art unit provides a common departmental backdrop, the distinct examiners will each bring their own unique perspectives to the pending office actions.
The focus on a single art unit for both pending office actions may allow for a more unified technical approach during prosecution. However, the use of the distinct examiners means that the company cannot rely on a single person's prior rulings to predict the outcome of both cases. Practitioners should monitor the pending office action under TAYLOR P VU while also accounting for the independent review of the other examiner within the same art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VU, TAYLOR P | 1 | 69.4% | +8.4% |
| LANIER, BENJAMIN E | 1 | 69.4% | +16.9% |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18851657 | A DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING USE OF A CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEY | VU, TAYLOR P | 30d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261505 | A DEVICE AND A COMMUNICATION METHOD | LANIER, BENJAMIN E | 63d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2437 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18851657 | A DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING USE OF A CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEY | VU, TAYLOR P | 2437 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18261505 | A DEVICE AND A COMMUNICATION METHOD | LANIER, BENJAMIN E | 2437 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
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