Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nextivity, Inc. operates a patent portfolio within the Networking & Security technology area. There are 2 pending office actions currently active for this company. This level of activity suggests a focused effort to protect their innovations in networking technology through the patent prosecution process.
The prosecution landscape for this portfolio involves 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This arrangement shows that each of the 2 pending office actions is being handled by a different official in a different technical division. The involvement of 2 distinct art units implies that the company's filings cover diverse aspects of the Networking & Security field, requiring specialized technical knowledge for each application.
OVEISSI, MANSOUR is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner handles 1 of the 2 pending office actions currently identified in the data. To move the portfolio forward, practitioners must manage two separate prosecution tracks, each governed by the specific standards of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OVEISSI, MANSOUR | 1 | 83.0% | +11.8% |
| SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D | 1 | 36.1% | +44.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18911628 | ENERGY EFFICIENT DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM AND METHOD | OVEISSI, MANSOUR | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18094950 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SITUATIONAL AWARENESS TO FIRST RESPONDERS | SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D | 10d overdue |
| 18911628 | ENERGY EFFICIENT DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM AND METHOD | OVEISSI, MANSOUR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2415 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18911628 | ENERGY EFFICIENT DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM AND METHOD | OVEISSI, MANSOUR | 2415 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18094950 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SITUATIONAL AWARENESS TO FIRST RESPONDERS | SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D | 3626 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Jan 09, 2023 |
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