Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sling Tv L L C currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These 4 actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This indicates that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual, with some overlap in the art units involved. The 4 pending office actions demonstrate the company's ongoing efforts to protect its networking and security innovations. This distribution across 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's filings cover a range of technical sub-specialties.
The busiest examiner, CHIN, RICKY, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This is 1 of the 4 total pending office actions. With 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, the company's networking and security portfolio is subject to review by a diverse group of USPTO personnel. The involvement of 3 distinct art units requires the company to manage 4 distinct examiner relationships to achieve its patenting goals. Practitioners should be prepared for varying examination styles across the 4 distinct examiners involved in these 4 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHIN, RICKY | 1 | 68.5% | +21.7% |
| BAYARD, DJENANE M | 1 | 83.7% | +1.1% |
| ALATA, YASSIN | 1 | 66.7% | +14.6% |
| SHANG, ANNAN Q | 1 | 70.8% | +10.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18824785 | STREAMING SYSTEM DEVICE AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | BAYARD, DJENANE M | 26d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17976433 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROGRAM SOURCE DISPLAY | SHANG, ANNAN Q | 41d |
| 19186470 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UNIFYING LOCAL CHANNELS WITH OVER-THE-TOP SERVICES | CHIN, RICKY | — |
| 18054477 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEMPORALLY RESTRICTING ACCESS TO MULTIMEDIA | ALATA, YASSIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2424 | 2 |
| 2444 | 1 |
| 2426 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19186470 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UNIFYING LOCAL CHANNELS WITH OVER-THE-TOP SERVICES | CHIN, RICKY | 2424 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 18824785 | STREAMING SYSTEM DEVICE AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | BAYARD, DJENANE M | 2444 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18054477 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEMPORALLY RESTRICTING ACCESS TO MULTIMEDIA | ALATA, YASSIN | 2426 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2022 |
| 17976433 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROGRAM SOURCE DISPLAY | SHANG, ANNAN Q | 2424 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Oct 28, 2022 |
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