Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Portal26 Inc. manages 3 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. MATTHEW T HENNING is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 2 pending actions. This indicates that one examiner is responsible for the majority of the company's active prosecution matters.
With 3 pending office actions, the company is in an active stage of securing its networking and security innovations. The distribution across 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners suggests a relatively focused prosecution effort. Having 2 pending actions with a single busiest examiner means that one individual's perspective will significantly influence the outcome of the company's current patent applications. The use of 2 distinct art units shows that the company's technology is classified into a few specialized areas, requiring a strategy that accounts for different unit-specific practices.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENNING, MATTHEW T | 2 | 71.4% | +18.1% |
| POPHAM, JEFFREY D | 1 | 37.8% | +24.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18775570 | USE OF DATA ENTANGLEMENT FOR IMPROVING THE SECURITY OF SEARCH INDEXES WHILE USING NATIVE ENTERPRISE SEARCH ENGINES AND FOR PROTECTING COMPUTER SYSTEMS AGAINST MALWARE INCLUDING RANSOMWARE | HENNING, MATTHEW T | 3d overdue |
| 19061803 | THE USE OF DATA ENTANGLEMENT FOR IMPROVING THE SECURITY OF SEARCH INDEXES WHILE USING NATIVE ENTERPRISE SEARCH ENGINES AND FOR PROTECTING COMPUTER SYSTEMS AGAINST MALWARE INCLUDING RANSOMWARE | HENNING, MATTHEW T | — |
| 16950404 | NON-STORED MULTIPLE FACTOR VERIFICATION | POPHAM, JEFFREY D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18775570 | USE OF DATA ENTANGLEMENT FOR IMPROVING THE SECURITY OF SEARCH INDEXES WHILE USING NATIVE ENTERPRISE SEARCH ENGINES AND FOR PROTECTING COMPUTER SYSTEMS AGAINST MALWARE INCLUDING RANSOMWARE | HENNING, MATTHEW T | 3d overdue |
| 19061803 | THE USE OF DATA ENTANGLEMENT FOR IMPROVING THE SECURITY OF SEARCH INDEXES WHILE USING NATIVE ENTERPRISE SEARCH ENGINES AND FOR PROTECTING COMPUTER SYSTEMS AGAINST MALWARE INCLUDING RANSOMWARE | HENNING, MATTHEW T | — |
| 16950404 | NON-STORED MULTIPLE FACTOR VERIFICATION | POPHAM, JEFFREY D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2491 | 1 |
| 2432 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19061803 | THE USE OF DATA ENTANGLEMENT FOR IMPROVING THE SECURITY OF SEARCH INDEXES WHILE USING NATIVE ENTERPRISE SEARCH ENGINES AND FOR PROTECTING COMPUTER SYSTEMS AGAINST MALWARE INCLUDING RANSOMWARE | HENNING, MATTHEW T | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 18775570 | USE OF DATA ENTANGLEMENT FOR IMPROVING THE SECURITY OF SEARCH INDEXES WHILE USING NATIVE ENTERPRISE SEARCH ENGINES AND FOR PROTECTING COMPUTER SYSTEMS AGAINST MALWARE INCLUDING RANSOMWARE | HENNING, MATTHEW T | 2491 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 16950404 | NON-STORED MULTIPLE FACTOR VERIFICATION | POPHAM, JEFFREY D | 2432 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2020 |
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