Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Smart Meter Corporation has 2 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, meaning each matter is being reviewed by a different individual. Furthermore, the cases are located in 2 distinct art units, showing that the company's networking innovations are being evaluated by two different specialized groups within the USPTO.
TRUONG, LAWRENCE QUANG is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Since both pending office actions are with different examiners in 2 distinct art units, the company faces a fragmented prosecution landscape. This requires the legal team to manage two unique examiner relationships and two different sets of art unit standards simultaneously. The lack of examiner or art unit overlap means that strategies successful in one case may not necessarily translate to the other. Practitioners should be prepared for distinct procedural and substantive requirements for each of the 2 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRUONG, LAWRENCE QUANG | 1 | 87.5% | -13.3% |
| AHSAN, SYED M | 1 | 73.1% | +22.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18985958 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF LAYERING SECURITY FOR CELLULAR-ENABLED BLOOD OXYGEN SATURATION DATA TRANSMISSION | TRUONG, LAWRENCE QUANG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963296 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF LAYERING SECURITY FOR CELLULAR-ENABLED BLOOD PRESSURE DATA TRANSMISSION | AHSAN, SYED M | 16d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2434 | 1 |
| 2491 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18985958 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF LAYERING SECURITY FOR CELLULAR-ENABLED BLOOD OXYGEN SATURATION DATA TRANSMISSION | TRUONG, LAWRENCE QUANG | 2434 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18963296 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF LAYERING SECURITY FOR CELLULAR-ENABLED BLOOD PRESSURE DATA TRANSMISSION | AHSAN, SYED M | 2491 | DP | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
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