Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
S2W Inc. has 2 pending office actions in its patent portfolio, which is focused on the Communications technology area. These 2 pending office actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. Both actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a consistent technical focus for the company's current applications. The concentration of the 2 pending office actions in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's innovations in Communications are technically related.
CHENG-FENG HUANG is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split, with each examiner handling one action. This allows the company to receive feedback from 2 distinct examiners while remaining within the same 1 distinct art unit. While the company interacts with 2 distinct examiners, the single art unit provides a unified administrative environment.
The balance of multiple examiners in a single art unit is a key feature of their current prosecution profile. Practitioners should prepare for the individual preferences of the 2 distinct examiners while navigating the 1 distinct art unit. This profile reflects a small but focused set of active patent applications in the Communications area. The company's immediate prosecution goals are tied to the current pending workload currently under review.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUANG, CHENG-FENG | 1 | 87.8% | +16.1% |
| DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI | 1 | 82.8% | +21.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19052382 | HIGH-SPEED NETWORK PACKET PAYLOAD INSPECTION SYSTEM BASED ON EBPF (EXTENDED BERKELEY PACKET FILTER)/XDP (EXPRESS DATA PATH) FOR CONTAINER ENVIRONMENT | HUANG, CHENG-FENG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18987173 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM TEXT USING A MULTI-STAGE DETECTION APPROACH | DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19052382 | HIGH-SPEED NETWORK PACKET PAYLOAD INSPECTION SYSTEM BASED ON EBPF (EXTENDED BERKELEY PACKET FILTER)/XDP (EXPRESS DATA PATH) FOR CONTAINER ENVIRONMENT | HUANG, CHENG-FENG | — |
| 18987173 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM TEXT USING A MULTI-STAGE DETECTION APPROACH | DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19052382 | HIGH-SPEED NETWORK PACKET PAYLOAD INSPECTION SYSTEM BASED ON EBPF (EXTENDED BERKELEY PACKET FILTER)/XDP (EXPRESS DATA PATH) FOR CONTAINER ENVIRONMENT | HUANG, CHENG-FENG | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 18987173 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM TEXT USING A MULTI-STAGE DETECTION APPROACH | DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI | 2653 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
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