Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sitting Man LLC has 3 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, showing a lack of examiner concentration in the current workload. Furthermore, the portfolio spans 3 distinct art units, which suggests a diverse range of technical subject matter even within the broader Networking & Security field.
AMBAYE, MEWALE A is identified as the busiest examiner, although this individual is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This indicates that the 3 pending office actions are spread among the distinct examiners. For a practitioner, this distribution means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the different individuals and the distinct art units simultaneously.
The complexity of managing 3 pending office actions is increased by this lack of overlap between examiners and art units. Each of the 3 distinct examiners brings a unique perspective to the Networking & Security filings, requiring a varied approach to responses and examiner interviews. This structure requires a broad understanding of different examination styles within the 3 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMBAYE, MEWALE A | 1 | 91.5% | -1.3% |
| HOPE, DARRIN | 1 | 60.8% | +18.3% |
| LEE, GIL H | 1 | 83.1% | +28.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16560983 | Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Accessing a Service Via a Proxy Communications Agent | LEE, GIL H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16852392 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROCESSING A CONTEXTUAL CHANNEL IDENTIFIER | HOPE, DARRIN | 43d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16852392 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROCESSING A CONTEXTUAL CHANNEL IDENTIFIER | HOPE, DARRIN | 43d overdue |
| 16560983 | Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Accessing a Service Via a Proxy Communications Agent | LEE, GIL H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2469 | 1 |
| 2178 | 1 |
| 2446 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17842653 | Enabling a Backup Network Interface Hardware Component in Response to a Failure | AMBAYE, MEWALE A | 2469 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2022 |
| 16852392 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROCESSING A CONTEXTUAL CHANNEL IDENTIFIER | HOPE, DARRIN | 2178 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Apr 17, 2020 |
| 16560983 | Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Accessing a Service Via a Proxy Communications Agent | LEE, GIL H | 2446 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2019 |
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