Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
OP Solutions LLC focuses on the Networking & Security technology area. The company currently has 3 pending office actions. These actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners, with each action assigned to a different individual. The prosecution is further diversified across 3 distinct art units, reflecting a variety of technical focuses within the networking domain. This distribution suggests that the company's current filings cover several distinct aspects of networking technology.
AYNALEM, NATHNAEL B is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split. The fact that 3 distinct examiners are working across 3 distinct art units suggests that each of the company's current networking and security filings is being evaluated by a different specialized group. Practitioners must manage three separate prosecution tracks, each with its own examiner and art unit context.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AYNALEM, NATHNAEL B | 1 | 76.4% | +12.9% |
| NAVAS JR, EDEMIO | 1 | 71.8% | +24.4% |
| VAZ, JANICE EZVI | 1 | 77.0% | +18.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18747587 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO CODING OF FEATURES USING SUBPICTURES | AYNALEM, NATHNAEL B | 79d overdue |
| 18440517 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR JOINT OPTIMIZATION TRAINING AND ENCODER SIDE DOWNSAMPLING | VAZ, JANICE EZVI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18747587 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO CODING OF FEATURES USING SUBPICTURES | AYNALEM, NATHNAEL B | 79d overdue |
| 18615060 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCALABLE VIDEO CODING FOR MACHINES | NAVAS JR, EDEMIO | — |
| 18440517 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR JOINT OPTIMIZATION TRAINING AND ENCODER SIDE DOWNSAMPLING | VAZ, JANICE EZVI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2488 | 1 |
| 2483 | 1 |
| 2667 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18747587 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO CODING OF FEATURES USING SUBPICTURES | AYNALEM, NATHNAEL B | 2488 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 79d overdue | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18615060 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCALABLE VIDEO CODING FOR MACHINES | NAVAS JR, EDEMIO | 2483 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18440517 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR JOINT OPTIMIZATION TRAINING AND ENCODER SIDE DOWNSAMPLING | VAZ, JANICE EZVI | 2667 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
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