Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Point2 Technology Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, though they are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the company is interacting with multiple individuals, the technical focus remains within a specialized group at the patent office. The shared art unit environment may lead to some consistency in the prior art cited across the cases.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WONG, ALAN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that the busiest examiner pending count is the same as the individual workload of the other examiner, the workload is evenly split. This distribution requires the company to manage separate prosecution tracks simultaneously within the art unit. Each examiner will bring their own perspective to the Networking & Security claims.
For practitioners, the presence of distinct examiners in the art unit means that while the technical subject matter is consistent, the individual preferences of the examiners may vary. The pending office actions represent the entirety of the current active workload. Strategy should be tailored to the specific feedback from each examiner while maintaining consistency across the filings. The focus on a distinct art unit simplifies the technical landscape for the legal team.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WONG, ALAN | 1 | 83.1% | +8.9% |
| SEYMOUR, JAMES PAUL | 1 | 40.0% | +16.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19191204 | SYSTEM FOR DUAL-BAND PLASTIC WAVEGUIDE TRANSMISSION | WONG, ALAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18374085 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING BROADBAND RF COMMUNICATION | SEYMOUR, JAMES PAUL | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2419 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19191204 | SYSTEM FOR DUAL-BAND PLASTIC WAVEGUIDE TRANSMISSION | WONG, ALAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 18374085 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING BROADBAND RF COMMUNICATION | SEYMOUR, JAMES PAUL | 2419 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
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