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
Qpq Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Networking & Security technology area. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, BECHTEL, KEVIN M, who is also identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. The prosecution activity is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit. This structure indicates a narrow administrative focus for the current patent filings.
The presence of BECHTEL, KEVIN M indicates a focused prosecution pipeline. Because there is 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the portfolio has a concentrated examiner assignment. Practitioners should note that the busiest examiner is responsible for 1 pending action. The concentration in the Networking & Security area suggests that the technical scope of the pending matter is specific.
Having 1 distinct examiner for the active matters means that there is no examiner variety in the current queue. The 1 distinct art unit suggests that the matters are not spread across different technical groups. This centralized prosecution strategy may lead to consistent results across the portfolio for the company.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BECHTEL, KEVIN M | 1 | 70.5% | +61.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18877943 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE CONSISTENCY AND CORRECTNESS OF STORAGE AND DATABASE MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS AMONG DATA ENTITIES AND THEIR HASHED KEY VALUES | BECHTEL, KEVIN M | — |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18877943 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE CONSISTENCY AND CORRECTNESS OF STORAGE AND DATABASE MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS AMONG DATA ENTITIES AND THEIR HASHED KEY VALUES | BECHTEL, KEVIN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2491 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18877943 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE CONSISTENCY AND CORRECTNESS OF STORAGE AND DATABASE MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS AMONG DATA ENTITIES AND THEIR HASHED KEY VALUES | BECHTEL, KEVIN M | 2491 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
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