Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security • Communications
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Neustar Inc. has 5 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These 5 actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners, showing that each pending matter is currently being handled by a different person. This distribution suggests that the company is engaging with a variety of perspectives within the patent office. The portfolio is also spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating a range of technical sub-specialties within the networking and security field that require specialized examination.
The workload is dispersed among the assigned staff, as the busiest examiner, RICHARDSON, JAMES E, is responsible for 1 pending action. This lack of concentration means that prosecution strategies must be independently managed for each matter across the 4 art units. For a practitioner, this distribution highlights the need for a versatile approach, as there is no 1 examiner or art unit handling a majority of the pending cases. The presence of 5 distinct examiners for 5 pending actions ensures that each application receives an individual review within the Networking & Security area.
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 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RICHARDSON, JAMES E | 1 | 81.5% | +31.1% |
| DESROSIERS, EVANS | 1 | 82.8% | +23.1% |
| TRAN, QUOC DUC | 1 | 85.8% | +4.8% |
| ABYANEH, ALI S | 1 | 77.8% | +55.7% |
| HUANG, KAYLEE J | 1 | 74.6% | +49.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19186809 | DATABASE LOCKING USING LOGICAL LOCK MECHANISM | RICHARDSON, JAMES E | 31d overdue |
| 18788842 | END-TO-END MANAGEMENT OF AUTHENTICATED COMMUNICATIONS | TRAN, QUOC DUC | 33d |
| 19082853 | DATA AGGREGATION SYSTEM FOR ENABLING QUERY OPERATIONS ON RESTRICTED DATA THAT ORIGINATES FROM MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT MULTIPLE SOURCES | DESROSIERS, EVANS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18746580 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING PARTIAL DATA TO SUBNETWORKS | ABYANEH, ALI S | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19186809 | DATABASE LOCKING USING LOGICAL LOCK MECHANISM | RICHARDSON, JAMES E | 31d overdue |
| 19082853 | DATA AGGREGATION SYSTEM FOR ENABLING QUERY OPERATIONS ON RESTRICTED DATA THAT ORIGINATES FROM MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT MULTIPLE SOURCES | DESROSIERS, EVANS | — |
| 18746580 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING PARTIAL DATA TO SUBNETWORKS | ABYANEH, ALI S | — |
| 17116160 | OPTIMIZING DISPLAY OF CALLER IDENTITY ON COMMUNICATION DEVICES | HUANG, KAYLEE J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2169 | 1 |
| 2691 | 1 |
| 2437 | 1 |
| 2447 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19186809 | DATABASE LOCKING USING LOGICAL LOCK MECHANISM | RICHARDSON, JAMES E | 2169 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19082853 | DATA AGGREGATION SYSTEM FOR ENABLING QUERY OPERATIONS ON RESTRICTED DATA THAT ORIGINATES FROM MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT MULTIPLE SOURCES | DESROSIERS, EVANS | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 18788842 | END-TO-END MANAGEMENT OF AUTHENTICATED COMMUNICATIONS | TRAN, QUOC DUC | 2691 | DP | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18746580 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING PARTIAL DATA TO SUBNETWORKS | ABYANEH, ALI S | 2437 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 17116160 | OPTIMIZING DISPLAY OF CALLER IDENTITY ON COMMUNICATION DEVICES | HUANG, KAYLEE J | 2447 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2020 |
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