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
Sourcepicture Inc. holds a patent portfolio in the Networking & Security technology area, which currently features 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action represents the company's active prosecution workload. The presence of this pending matter suggests a targeted approach to its current intellectual property filings in the networking sector.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit means that the technical review of the company's current filings is confined to a specific specialized group. This concentration simplifies the management of the portfolio, as the applicant only needs to navigate the requirements of the 1 distinct art unit and its associated examiner.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CASTRO, ALFONSO, who is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total number of pending actions is 1, this examiner is responsible for the active docket. The 1 busiest examiner pending office action signifies that the company's current prosecution success is tied to the review of the 1 distinct examiner assigned to the case.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASTRO, ALFONSO | 1 | 51.0% | +19.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17142884 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTING PLAYBACK DEVICE FOR CONTENT DISPLAY | CASTRO, ALFONSO | 59d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2421 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17142884 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTING PLAYBACK DEVICE FOR CONTENT DISPLAY | CASTRO, ALFONSO | 2421 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 59d overdue | Pending | Jan 06, 2021 |
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