Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sony Europe B V is managing 3 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners, resulting in a one-to-one ratio of examiners to pending cases. The prosecution is spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating a focused technical scope within the networking field. This small but precise portfolio requires the company to manage three separate examiner relationships across two different technical groups at the USPTO.
YANG, NIEN is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This is consistent with the 3 distinct examiners each handling one of the 3 pending office actions. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's networking and security innovations are being reviewed by a small, specialized group of examiners. With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the company's current prosecution profile is decentralized, requiring a unique approach for each of its active applications in the Networking & Security area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, NIEN | 1 | 73.3% | +28.1% |
| TOWFIGHI, AFSHAWN M | 1 | 87.7% | +9.0% |
| LANDEEN, BROGAN RANE | 1 | 28.6% | -33.3% |
| WAMBST, DAVID ALEXANDER | 1 | 68.4% | +50.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18835202 | BEACON SIGNALS FOR BEAM MANAGEMENT AT COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICE | TOWFIGHI, AFSHAWN M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19067941 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD | YANG, NIEN | 8d |
| 18719551 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SELECTING CONTENT FOR DISPLAY DURING A JOURNEY TO ALLEVIATE MOTION SICKNESS | LANDEEN, BROGAN RANE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19067941 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD | YANG, NIEN | 8d |
| 18078950 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | WAMBST, DAVID ALEXANDER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2484 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19067941 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD | YANG, NIEN | 2484 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Mar 02, 2025 |
| 18835202 | BEACON SIGNALS FOR BEAM MANAGEMENT AT COVERAGE ENHANCING DEVICE | TOWFIGHI, AFSHAWN M | — | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18719551 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SELECTING CONTENT FOR DISPLAY DURING A JOURNEY TO ALLEVIATE MOTION SICKNESS | LANDEEN, BROGAN RANE | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18078950 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | WAMBST, DAVID ALEXANDER | 2663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2022 |
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