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
Planetway Corporation holds a patent portfolio within the Networking & Security technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action in the portfolio, which constitutes the total active workload for the company. This 1 pending office action is assigned to LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER, who is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. Since LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action, the company's immediate patent strategy is focused on this examiner's review.
The prosecution activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific area of technological focus within the broader Networking & Security sector. Working within 1 distinct art unit means the company is subject to the specific administrative practices of that group. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner suggests a simplified prosecution environment where the company only needs to address the concerns of one official. This 1 pending office action is the only active hurdle for the company's current patent applications, allowing for a concentrated legal effort to resolve the pending issues.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER | 1 | 6.1% | +10.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17793160 | DIGITAL SIGNATURE SYSTEM USING RELIABLE SERVERS | LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17793160 | DIGITAL SIGNATURE SYSTEM USING RELIABLE SERVERS | LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2496 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17793160 | DIGITAL SIGNATURE SYSTEM USING RELIABLE SERVERS | LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER | 2496 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2022 |
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