Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Qualys Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. Both of these actions are being handled within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated technical focus. Uniquely, both pending actions are assigned to the same examiner, EDWARD ZEE, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 2 pending office actions. This concentration of 2 pending actions under 1 examiner in 1 art unit provides a rare opportunity for a highly consistent prosecution strategy.
The company can address both matters with a single point of contact, which may streamline the resolution of these outstanding office actions. Practitioners should leverage this overlap by ensuring that arguments made in one case are consistent with the other, potentially leading to a more efficient path to allowance. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 art unit involved, the company's entire current prosecution efforts are focused on a single relationship. This streamlined profile reduces the complexity of managing multiple examination styles.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZEE, EDWARD | 2 | 90.6% | +10.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19183347 | DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGE FOR DEFENDING AGAINST A THREAT-ACTOR AND ADVERSARIAL TACTICS, TECHNIQUES, AND PROCEDURES | ZEE, EDWARD | — |
| 19183340 | DOMAIN-SPECIFIC LANGUAGE SIMULANT FOR SIMULATING A THREAT-ACTOR AND ADVERSARIAL TACTICS, TECHNIQUES, AND PROCEDURES | ZEE, EDWARD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19183347 | DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGE FOR DEFENDING AGAINST A THREAT-ACTOR AND ADVERSARIAL TACTICS, TECHNIQUES, AND PROCEDURES | ZEE, EDWARD | — |
| 19183340 | DOMAIN-SPECIFIC LANGUAGE SIMULANT FOR SIMULATING A THREAT-ACTOR AND ADVERSARIAL TACTICS, TECHNIQUES, AND PROCEDURES | ZEE, EDWARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2435 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19183347 | DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGE FOR DEFENDING AGAINST A THREAT-ACTOR AND ADVERSARIAL TACTICS, TECHNIQUES, AND PROCEDURES | ZEE, EDWARD | 2435 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 19183340 | DOMAIN-SPECIFIC LANGUAGE SIMULANT FOR SIMULATING A THREAT-ACTOR AND ADVERSARIAL TACTICS, TECHNIQUES, AND PROCEDURES | ZEE, EDWARD | 2435 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
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