Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pqshield Ltd. currently has 4 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. The portfolio shows dispersion, with 4 distinct examiners assigned to these 4 pending actions. Furthermore, these matters are spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating that each pending application is being reviewed in a unique technical and administrative environment.
The busiest examiner, WRIGHT, BRYAN F, is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly distributed, with no individual examiner holding more than 1 matter. This lack of concentration across 4 distinct art units suggests that Pqshield Ltd. is navigating a wide range of technical classifications within the networking and security space. For practitioners, this means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the specific requirements of 4 different art units and the individual preferences of 4 different examiners, as there is no overlap in the current pending workload.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WRIGHT, BRYAN F | 1 | 78.2% | +24.1% |
| ALI, AFAQ | 1 | 89.5% | +11.9% |
| WILLIAMS, JEFFERY L | 1 | 68.8% | +19.0% |
| HOLDER, BRADLEY W | 1 | 83.9% | +61.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18674380 | METHODS OF GENERATING A KEY AND A COMMUNICATION METHOD | HOLDER, BRADLEY W | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18958880 | SECURE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD | ALI, AFAQ | 4d overdue |
| 18972271 | BLIND SIGNATURE SYSTEM AND METHOD USING LATTICE-BASED CRYPTOGRAPHY | WRIGHT, BRYAN F | — |
| 18953951 | AUTHENTICATION IN SECURE GROUP MESSAGING | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY L | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18958880 | SECURE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD | ALI, AFAQ | 4d overdue |
| 18674380 | METHODS OF GENERATING A KEY AND A COMMUNICATION METHOD | HOLDER, BRADLEY W | 33d |
| 18972271 | BLIND SIGNATURE SYSTEM AND METHOD USING LATTICE-BASED CRYPTOGRAPHY | WRIGHT, BRYAN F | — |
| 18953951 | AUTHENTICATION IN SECURE GROUP MESSAGING | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2497 | 1 |
| 2434 | 1 |
| 2495 | 1 |
| 2408 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18972271 | BLIND SIGNATURE SYSTEM AND METHOD USING LATTICE-BASED CRYPTOGRAPHY | WRIGHT, BRYAN F | 2497 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18958880 | SECURE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD | ALI, AFAQ | 2434 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18953951 | AUTHENTICATION IN SECURE GROUP MESSAGING | WILLIAMS, JEFFERY L | 2495 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18674380 | METHODS OF GENERATING A KEY AND A COMMUNICATION METHOD | HOLDER, BRADLEY W | 2408 | §102 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
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