Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nti Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The matters involve 4 examiners and 3 art units, indicating that at least one technical unit is associated with more than one examiner relationship.
GRIJALVA LOBOS, BORIS D is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should combine examiner-specific review with art-unit tracking across the networking and security docket.
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 only | 1 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRIJALVA LOBOS, BORIS D | 1 | 82.4% | +18.3% |
| CHOI, YUE YIN | 1 | 60.0% | +8.2% |
| ALMEIDA, DEVIN E | 1 | 71.5% | +10.7% |
| ALI, JAHED | 1 | 62.4% | +52.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16637113 | VIRTUAL CURRENCY DATA ISSUING SYSTEM, USER TERMINAL, MANAGEMENT DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | CHOI, YUE YIN | 42d overdue |
| 16617284 | DATA STRUCTURE, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, SETTLEMENT DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | ALI, JAHED | 42d overdue |
| 19116546 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, FIRST COMMUNICATION DEVICE, SECOND COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD | GRIJALVA LOBOS, BORIS D | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16617284 | DATA STRUCTURE, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, SETTLEMENT DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | ALI, JAHED | 42d overdue |
| 19116546 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, FIRST COMMUNICATION DEVICE, SECOND COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD | GRIJALVA LOBOS, BORIS D | — |
| 16626902 | FIRST COMMUNICATION DEVICE, SECOND COMMUNICATION DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | ALMEIDA, DEVIN E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3699 | 2 |
| 2496 | 1 |
| 2492 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19116546 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, FIRST COMMUNICATION DEVICE, SECOND COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD | GRIJALVA LOBOS, BORIS D | 2496 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 16637113 | VIRTUAL CURRENCY DATA ISSUING SYSTEM, USER TERMINAL, MANAGEMENT DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | CHOI, YUE YIN | 3699 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Jun 24, 2020 |
| 16626902 | FIRST COMMUNICATION DEVICE, SECOND COMMUNICATION DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | ALMEIDA, DEVIN E | 2492 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2020 |
| 16617284 | DATA STRUCTURE, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, SETTLEMENT DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | ALI, JAHED | 3699 | §101 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Mar 05, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialNti Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Boris D Grijalva Lobos has the most, with 1 of Nti Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
