Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security • Communications
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Red Bend Ltd. manages 5 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. WOOD, WILLIAM H is identified as the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending action.
This distribution indicates that each of the 5 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different examiner. The involvement of 4 distinct art units suggests that the portfolio covers several technical sub-sectors within the Computing & Software field. Practitioners must coordinate across multiple examiner styles and art unit procedures to manage the 5 pending office actions effectively. The even distribution of the workload, with the busiest examiner only managing 1 pending action, highlights the diversity of the company's current patent office interactions. This structure requires a strategy that accounts for the 5 distinct examiners involved. The breadth of the 4 distinct art units indicates that the pending office actions span various specialized areas of computing.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIGATU, BEZA DIRESSA | 1 | — | — |
| WONG, WARNER | 1 | 89.3% | +6.5% |
| GENACK, MATTHEW W | 1 | 64.5% | +21.6% |
| KABIR, MOHAMMAD H | 1 | 67.4% | +13.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18606158 | RELIABLE TIME INFORMATION FOR OFFLINE OVER THE AIR UPDATES | WONG, WARNER | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573929 | UPDATING NON-VOLATILE MEMORY IN A COMPUTER CONTROLLED DEVICE | KABIR, MOHAMMAD H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18581167 | VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE MESSAGING | GENACK, MATTHEW W | 26d overdue |
| 18573929 | UPDATING NON-VOLATILE MEMORY IN A COMPUTER CONTROLLED DEVICE | KABIR, MOHAMMAD H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2192 | 2 |
| 2469 | 1 |
| 2645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18609975 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CLIENT-LESS VEHICLE SOFTWARE UPDATES | NIGATU, BEZA DIRESSA | 2192 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18606158 | RELIABLE TIME INFORMATION FOR OFFLINE OVER THE AIR UPDATES | WONG, WARNER | 2469 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18581167 | VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE MESSAGING | GENACK, MATTHEW W | 2645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
| 18573929 | UPDATING NON-VOLATILE MEMORY IN A COMPUTER CONTROLLED DEVICE | KABIR, MOHAMMAD H | 2192 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
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