Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nti Inc. has pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. Each of these matters is assigned to a different individual, resulting in 3 distinct examiners for the portfolio. Furthermore, the cases are distributed across 3 distinct art units, showing the administrative groups handling the filings. GRIJALVA LOBOS, BORIS D is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 pending office action.
Because the pending office actions are spread across multiple art units, the applicant must navigate the specific nuances of different technical divisions. The involvement of several distinct examiners suggests that the prosecution strategy must be tailored to different perspectives on patentability. With 1 pending action assigned to GRIJALVA LOBOS, BORIS D, the workload is distributed across the examiner pool. This distribution across 3 distinct art units and various examiners requires the legal team to monitor separate sets of procedural expectations. The focus on Networking & Security defines the current patenting efforts for the firm.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 | 82.3% | +18.4% |
| CHOI, YUE YIN | 1 | 59.5% | +8.5% |
| ALMEIDA, DEVIN E | 1 | 71.5% | +11.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 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 |
| 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 2496 | 1 |
| 3699 | 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 |
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