Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sandvine Corporation is managing 6 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are spread across 6 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units. ANTHONY MEJIA is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. The 1 to 1 ratio of 6 pending office actions to both 6 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units is notable. This suggests that every pending matter is in a different technical sub-field and is being reviewed by a different individual.
The presence of 6 distinct art units for the 6 pending office actions indicates a highly decentralized technical portfolio within Networking & Security. ANTHONY MEJIA is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, reflecting the complete lack of examiner overlap. This environment requires practitioners to manage 6 separate relationships with 6 distinct examiners. Each of the 6 pending office actions will likely follow its own unique timeline and set of examiner expectations. The 6 distinct art units may also have different internal policies that practitioners must navigate for each matter.
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 | 4 (67%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEJIA, ANTHONY | 1 | 83.7% | +18.2% |
| HWANG, JOON H | 1 | 13.0% | +4.1% |
| REYES, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY | 1 | 81.5% | +15.4% |
| NEURAUTER JR, GEORGE C | 1 | 76.4% | +10.7% |
| MAHMUD, GOLAM | 1 | 61.2% | +29.8% |
| ZHANG, ZHENSHENG | 1 | 76.4% | +10.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18389918 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAFFIC FLOW CONTENT CLASSIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENCE LEVEL | REYES, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY | 71d overdue |
| 18944793 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING AND HANDLING VOICE OVER IP TRAFFIC | MEJIA, ANTHONY | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18390988 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAFFIC FLOW CLASSIFICATION | NEURAUTER JR, GEORGE C | 31d overdue |
| 18392107 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPACITY PLANNING | HWANG, JOON 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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18389918 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAFFIC FLOW CONTENT CLASSIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENCE LEVEL | REYES, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY | 71d overdue |
| 18390988 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAFFIC FLOW CLASSIFICATION | NEURAUTER JR, GEORGE C | 31d overdue |
| 18303953 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING OBFUSCATED TRAFFIC FLOWS | ZHANG, ZHENSHENG | 19d overdue |
| 18944793 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING AND HANDLING VOICE OVER IP TRAFFIC | MEJIA, ANTHONY | — |
| 18470793 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING NETWORK TRAFFIC IN A DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT | MAHMUD, GOLAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2455 | 1 |
| 2447 | 1 |
| 2475 | 1 |
| 2459 | 1 |
| 2458 | 1 |
| 2474 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18944793 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING AND HANDLING VOICE OVER IP TRAFFIC | MEJIA, ANTHONY | 2455 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18392107 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPACITY PLANNING | HWANG, JOON H | 2447 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18389918 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAFFIC FLOW CONTENT CLASSIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENCE LEVEL | REYES, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY | 2475 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18390988 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAFFIC FLOW CLASSIFICATION | NEURAUTER JR, GEORGE C | 2459 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18470793 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING NETWORK TRAFFIC IN A DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT | MAHMUD, GOLAM | 2458 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 18303953 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING OBFUSCATED TRAFFIC FLOWS | ZHANG, ZHENSHENG | 2474 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
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