Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Radware Ltd. currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. ALI, AFAQ is the busiest examiner for the company, handling 2 pending office actions. This means that ALI, AFAQ is responsible for more than one action, while the other 3 distinct examiners each handle one.
The presence of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's networking and security innovations are categorized into several different technical areas. With 5 pending office actions, the company maintains a moderate level of activity. Practitioners should prioritize their interactions with ALI, AFAQ given his 2 pending actions. The distribution across 3 art units may require different technical arguments for each pending case. This portfolio structure shows a mix of concentration and variety in its prosecution. The company must manage 4 distinct examiners to resolve its 5 pending actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALI, AFAQ | 2 | 89.5% | +11.9% |
| LIN, AMIE CHINYU | 1 | 84.4% | +30.9% |
| ABYANEH, ALI S | 1 | 77.8% | +55.7% |
| POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN | 1 | 51.9% | +77.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18794620 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR METHOD FOR FINETUNING APPLICATION-LAYER SIGNATURES | ALI, AFAQ | 66d overdue |
| 18398985 | TECHNIQUES FOR ACCURATE LEARNING OF BASELINES FOR CHARACTERIZING ADVANCED APPLICATION-LAYER FLOOD ATTACK TOOLS | ALI, AFAQ | 30d overdue |
| 19003837 | WEB APPLICATION AND APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) PROTECTION | LIN, AMIE CHINYU | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18794620 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR METHOD FOR FINETUNING APPLICATION-LAYER SIGNATURES | ALI, AFAQ | 66d overdue |
| 18398985 | TECHNIQUES FOR ACCURATE LEARNING OF BASELINES FOR CHARACTERIZING ADVANCED APPLICATION-LAYER FLOOD ATTACK TOOLS | ALI, AFAQ | 30d overdue |
| 18471923 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING DOCUMENT OBJECT MODEL CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING VULNERABILITY | POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN | 28d |
| 19003837 | WEB APPLICATION AND APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) PROTECTION | LIN, AMIE CHINYU | — |
| 18676904 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF VALIDATING A DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM QUERY | ABYANEH, ALI S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2436 | 2 |
| 2434 | 2 |
| 2437 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19003837 | WEB APPLICATION AND APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) PROTECTION | LIN, AMIE CHINYU | 2436 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18794620 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR METHOD FOR FINETUNING APPLICATION-LAYER SIGNATURES | ALI, AFAQ | 2434 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18676904 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF VALIDATING A DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM QUERY | ABYANEH, ALI S | 2437 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18398985 | TECHNIQUES FOR ACCURATE LEARNING OF BASELINES FOR CHARACTERIZING ADVANCED APPLICATION-LAYER FLOOD ATTACK TOOLS | ALI, AFAQ | 2434 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18471923 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING DOCUMENT OBJECT MODEL CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING VULNERABILITY | POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN | 2436 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
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