Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
SunStone Information Defense, Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These 2 actions are distributed between 2 distinct examiners, but both are located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while different individuals are reviewing the applications, they are operating within the same technical division. PLECHA, THADDEUS J is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently assigned 1 pending office action.
With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for 1 pending action. The concentration of both matters in 1 art unit suggests a focused technical scope for the company's current filings in Networking & Security. Practitioners can benefit from this concentration by analyzing the specific examination trends and precedents within that single art unit. The 1 pending action handled by PLECHA, THADDEUS J accounts for a portion of the company's active prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLECHA, THADDEUS J | 1 | 87.1% | +10.2% |
| CERVETTI, DAVID GARCIA | 1 | 82.8% | +15.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18425624 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INTERFERING WITH AUTOMATED BOTS USING A GRAPHICAL POINTER AND PAGE DISPLAY ELEMENTS | CERVETTI, DAVID GARCIA | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19268417 | SYSTEM, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR DATABASE SECURITY | PLECHA, THADDEUS J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18425624 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INTERFERING WITH AUTOMATED BOTS USING A GRAPHICAL POINTER AND PAGE DISPLAY ELEMENTS | CERVETTI, DAVID GARCIA | 33d |
| 19268417 | SYSTEM, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR DATABASE SECURITY | PLECHA, THADDEUS J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2409 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19268417 | SYSTEM, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR DATABASE SECURITY | PLECHA, THADDEUS J | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 18425624 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INTERFERING WITH AUTOMATED BOTS USING A GRAPHICAL POINTER AND PAGE DISPLAY ELEMENTS | CERVETTI, DAVID GARCIA | 2409 | §112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
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