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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Siliconally GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Networking & Security technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, Christopher Palaca Cadorna, and is situated within a distinct art unit. This individual is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing the pending workload.
The company's current prosecution activity is focused on the matter within Networking & Security. This pending office action is being reviewed by Christopher Palaca Cadorna, which centralizes the legal risk and strategy for this portfolio. This official is the sole person managing the legal matters currently active.
The involvement of a distinct art unit suggests that the pending office action relates to a specific technical niche within the broader field. Because there is only the pending office action, the company's immediate patent goals are tied to the decisions of the examiner. The current review will determine the outcome for the prosecution effort in this specific case.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CADORNA, CHRISTOPHER PALACA | 1 | 66.1% | +18.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18292283 | APPARATUS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF INTERFACE DEVICES AND OPERATING METHOD FOR THIS PURPOSE | CADORNA, CHRISTOPHER PALACA | 74d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18292283 | APPARATUS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF INTERFACE DEVICES AND OPERATING METHOD FOR THIS PURPOSE | CADORNA, CHRISTOPHER PALACA | 74d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2444 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18292283 | APPARATUS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF INTERFACE DEVICES AND OPERATING METHOD FOR THIS PURPOSE | CADORNA, CHRISTOPHER PALACA | 2444 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 74d overdue | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
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