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
Shanghai Finanasia Inc. is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Networking & Security technology area. This singular focus suggests that the company is concentrating its resources on a specific technical innovation. By maintaining 1 pending office action, the applicant can dedicate significant attention to the quality and precision of their responses within the Networking & Security domain.
The prosecution is being conducted through 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This high level of concentration means that the examination process is likely to be consistent, as it is not subject to the varying interpretations of multiple USPTO officials. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technology is well-defined within a specific technical classification, simplifying the administrative tracking of the portfolio.
JOHNSON, CARLTON is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. As the examiner involved, JOHNSON, CARLTON plays a pivotal role in the company's patent strategy. Practitioners should carefully analyze the previous office actions issued by this examiner to understand their specific concerns and move the 1 pending office action toward a successful allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, CARLTON | 1 | 58.0% | +33.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17994133 | IC CARD ASYMMETRIC LABELLING SYSTEM AND IC CARD BUILT-IN PASSWORD INPUT SYSTEM | JOHNSON, CARLTON | 46d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2436 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17994133 | IC CARD ASYMMETRIC LABELLING SYSTEM AND IC CARD BUILT-IN PASSWORD INPUT SYSTEM | JOHNSON, CARLTON | 2436 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Nov 25, 2022 |
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