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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Polygraf Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Networking & Security technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, HO, DAO Q, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending action. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit. This represents a very focused and low-volume prosecution profile with only 1 pending office action currently in the system.
With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the entirety of the company's active patent office interaction is concentrated in one place. HO, DAO Q is the sole individual responsible for the 1 pending office action. This suggests that the current technical focus is limited to a single niche within Networking & Security.
Practitioners should note that there is no examiner diversity to manage for this portfolio. The 1 pending office action is the only active matter, and its outcome depends entirely on the interaction with HO, DAO Q. The 1 distinct art unit confirms the narrow technical scope of the current filing, requiring a deep understanding of that specific classification.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HO, DAO Q | 1 | 83.1% | +32.1% |
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.
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2432 | 1 |
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