Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These matters are distributed among distinct examiners and distinct art units. This distribution shows that each of the 2 pending office actions is being handled by a different examiner in a separate art unit, providing a diversified review process. The company's presence in the Networking & Security sector is thus split across multiple points of review within the patent office.
HSIA, SHERRIE Y is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action under review. Although designated as the busiest, this examiner's workload is equal to the other examiner involved in the company's active cases. With a small but diversified set of applications, the company ensures that the progress of an application does not necessarily dictate the timeline for another, despite both being within the same general technology area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HSIA, SHERRIE Y | 1 | 90.8% | +7.0% |
| MENEFEE, JAMES A | 1 | 78.9% | +12.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19162962 | SYSTEM EMPLOYING AN EVENT CAMERA FOR SYNCHRONIZED RESPONSE TO FAST APPROACHING OBJECTS | HSIA, SHERRIE Y | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036427 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LASER RANGE-FINDING | MENEFEE, JAMES A | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2422 | 1 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19162962 | SYSTEM EMPLOYING AN EVENT CAMERA FOR SYNCHRONIZED RESPONSE TO FAST APPROACHING OBJECTS | HSIA, SHERRIE Y | 2422 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2025 |
| 18036427 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LASER RANGE-FINDING | MENEFEE, JAMES A | 2828 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
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