Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Prove Identity Inc. is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's filings involve multiple specialized technical groups at the patent office. The prosecution is being handled by 3 distinct examiners, which means that each of the 3 pending office actions is under review by a different official.
BINCZAK, BRANDON MICHAEL is identified as the busiest examiner, though they are only responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 distinct examiners for the 3 pending office actions, the workload is distributed, and no single examiner has a dominant influence. This distribution across 2 distinct art units and 3 distinct examiners suggests that the company must navigate three different examination styles to advance its current patent applications in the Networking & Security sector.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DHAKAD, RUPALI | 2 | 40.0% | +32.3% |
| BINCZAK, BRANDON MICHAEL | 1 | 39.1% | +33.4% |
| WONG, ERIC TAK WAI | 1 | 50.6% | +13.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19196450 | DEVICE AUTHENTICATION VIA HIGH-ENTROPY TOKEN | BINCZAK, BRANDON MICHAEL | — |
| 18076074 | IDENTITY VERIFICATION UTILIZING UPLOADED CONTENT AND TRUST SCORE | DHAKAD, RUPALI | — |
| 17591444 | LINKING OF COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE SUBSCRIBER IDENTIFIERS FOR FRAUD DETECTION | DHAKAD, RUPALI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16730878 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATION OF A MOBILE DEVICE | WONG, ERIC TAK WAI | 12d |
| 19196450 | DEVICE AUTHENTICATION VIA HIGH-ENTROPY TOKEN | BINCZAK, BRANDON MICHAEL | — |
| 18076074 | IDENTITY VERIFICATION UTILIZING UPLOADED CONTENT AND TRUST SCORE | DHAKAD, RUPALI | — |
| 17591444 | LINKING OF COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE SUBSCRIBER IDENTIFIERS FOR FRAUD DETECTION | DHAKAD, RUPALI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2437 | 2 |
| 3693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19196450 | DEVICE AUTHENTICATION VIA HIGH-ENTROPY TOKEN | BINCZAK, BRANDON MICHAEL | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 18076074 | IDENTITY VERIFICATION UTILIZING UPLOADED CONTENT AND TRUST SCORE | DHAKAD, RUPALI | 2437 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2022 |
| 17591444 | LINKING OF COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE SUBSCRIBER IDENTIFIERS FOR FRAUD DETECTION | DHAKAD, RUPALI | 2437 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2022 |
| 16730878 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATION OF A MOBILE DEVICE | WONG, ERIC TAK WAI | 3693 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Dec 30, 2019 |
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