Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sionyx LLC currently has 2 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and are located in 2 distinct art units. ABOUZAHRA, MAHMOUD KAMAL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action.
The distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units indicates a decentralized prosecution landscape. Each case is being handled by a different examiner in a different technical division of the USPTO. This requires the applicant to manage separate sets of examiner expectations and different sets of art unit-specific procedures.
ABOUZAHRA, MAHMOUD KAMAL's role as the busiest examiner involves 1 pending office action, which represents a significant portion of the company's current pending workload. This structure means that the company must be prepared for varied feedback and different examination timelines. The presence of the 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's technology spans multiple specialized areas within the Networking & Security field.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABOUZAHRA, MAHMOUD KAMAL | 1 | 68.9% | +2.7% |
| LIN, JOHN | 1 | 60.0% | +8.5% |
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2486 | 1 |
| 2815 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18802658 | FLIP-UP/DOWN LOW LIGHT CAMERA FOR AUGMENTED REALITY NIGHT VISION | ABOUZAHRA, MAHMOUD KAMAL | 2486 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18307388 | OPTICAL PIXEL WITH AN OPTICAL CONCENTRATOR AND A FULL-DEPTH DEEP ISOLATION TRENCH FOR IMPROVED LOW-LIGHT PERFORMANCE | LIN, JOHN | 2815 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
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