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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rtx A/S currently has 1 pending office action in the Networking & Security technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This shows a narrow scope of active prosecution for the company's networking filings. For a practitioner, this concentration means that the outcome of the entire pending portfolio rests on a single examiner's interpretation of the prior art and patentability requirements in the networking and security field.
BEDNASH, JOSEPH A is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 pending office action. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit indicates that the networking and security work is being evaluated by a single specialized group. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of this individual, as there are no other examiners currently providing feedback on the company's applications. This centralized review process simplifies administrative tracking but increases the strategic importance of every interaction with the assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEDNASH, JOSEPH A | 1 | 50.4% | +8.8% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2461 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18550478 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF MULTIPLE SIGNALS WITH AN UNPRECISE REFERENCE CLOCK | BEDNASH, JOSEPH A | 2461 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
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