Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sontiq Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Networking & Security technology area. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON. The concentration of work is absolute, as 1 distinct art unit contains the entirety of the portfolio's active prosecution. STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, also accounting for 1 busiest examiner pending action.
This indicates a highly focused prosecution stage where all current activity is channeled through a single point of contact at the patent office. Practitioners can expect a streamlined communication path given the lack of diversity in assigned personnel. The alignment of the busiest examiner with the only pending action suggests that the company's immediate patent strategy is entirely dependent on the outcomes from this specific individual. Furthermore, the presence of 1 distinct art unit implies that the technical subject matter is tightly defined within the Networking & Security sector. This singular art unit assignment simplifies the consistency of legal arguments across the portfolio.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON | 1 | 77.1% | +20.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18473760 | DATA BREACH SYSTEM AND METHOD | STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2491 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18473760 | DATA BREACH SYSTEM AND METHOD | STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON | 2491 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSontiq Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
D'Arcy Winston Straub has the most, with 1 of Sontiq Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
