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 • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
SMK Corporation currently has 1 pending office action in the Networking & Security technology area. DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding the responsibility for this single pending matter. The concentration of the company's current prosecution workload under a single official suggests a highly specific legal focus at this time.
The portfolio's activity involves 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current patent applications are being reviewed within a single technical division of the office. Practitioners should note that the busiest examiner pending count matches the total pending office actions for the entire portfolio, which means there is no diversification of examiner perspectives. This singular focus requires a response strategy tailored to the specific preferences of DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN. Having only a distinct examiner involved means that the company's immediate patent outcomes depend on this individual review. The presence of a distinct art unit further suggests a narrow technical scope for the company's current intellectual property efforts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 1 | 79.2% | +18.5% |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18517001 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM | DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 3d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18517001 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM | DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2476 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18517001 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM | DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 2476 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
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