Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Pathlock Inc. manages a patent portfolio within the Networking & Security technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action, which is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. This indicates a concentrated prosecution effort, where the company's current success at the patent office is tied to the active application. The focus on the examiner suggests that the company is prioritizing a specific technical path at this stage.
The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specific technical focus for the company's intellectual property. DESROSIERS, EVANS is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because this 1 examiner is handling the only active matter, the prosecution strategy must be closely aligned with the specific preferences and examination history of the assigned official. For a practitioner, this lack of distribution across different art units or examiners simplifies administrative oversight but increases the impact of the individual's decisions. The alignment of the pending office action with the workload in the Networking & Security sector highlights a streamlined approach to securing patent rights at this time.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DESROSIERS, EVANS | 1 | 82.8% | +23.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18024160 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROLE HARMONIZATION, APPLICATION, AND MONITORING | DESROSIERS, EVANS | 27d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18024160 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROLE HARMONIZATION, APPLICATION, AND MONITORING | DESROSIERS, EVANS | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2491 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18024160 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROLE HARMONIZATION, APPLICATION, AND MONITORING | DESROSIERS, EVANS | 2491 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
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