Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Privitar Limited is currently overseeing 2 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's intellectual property spans different technical classifications. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, meaning each case is handled by a separate individual. This distribution requires the legal team to manage 2 distinct examiner relationships simultaneously to move the portfolio forward.
AMBAYE, SAMUEL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed equally. This arrangement ensures that no examiner or art unit is responsible for more than 1 of the company's pending matters. Practitioners should be prepared for 2 independent prosecution paths to resolve the 2 pending office actions. This diversification can be beneficial as it prevents a single examiner's outlook from defining the entire portfolio.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMBAYE, SAMUEL | 1 | 82.3% | +24.9% |
| KING, JOHN B | 1 | 80.8% | +37.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19198089 | DIGITAL WATERMARKING WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT INFORMATION LOSS IN ANONYMIZED DATASETS | AMBAYE, SAMUEL | — |
| 18693056 | PROCESS FOR EMBEDDING A DIGITAL WATERMARK IN TOKENISED DATA | KING, JOHN B | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19198089 | DIGITAL WATERMARKING WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT INFORMATION LOSS IN ANONYMIZED DATASETS | AMBAYE, SAMUEL | — |
| 18693056 | PROCESS FOR EMBEDDING A DIGITAL WATERMARK IN TOKENISED DATA | KING, JOHN B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2498 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19198089 | DIGITAL WATERMARKING WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT INFORMATION LOSS IN ANONYMIZED DATASETS | AMBAYE, SAMUEL | 2431 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 04, 2025 |
| 18693056 | PROCESS FOR EMBEDDING A DIGITAL WATERMARK IN TOKENISED DATA | KING, JOHN B | 2498 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialPrivitar Limited has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Samuel Ambaye has the most, with 1 of Privitar Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
