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
Sylabs IP Holdings, LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Networking & Security technology area. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN. The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused technical scope for this specific series of the company's portfolio. This 1 to 1 relationship between the pending action and the art unit indicates a concentrated review process.
KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Because there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner's decisions will determine the immediate trajectory of the company's Networking & Security filings. The presence of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner for the 1 pending action highlights a highly focused point of contact for the current prosecution cycle. Practitioners should analyze the past decisions of KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN to better understand the likely outcome.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN | 1 | 80.4% | +34.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18740466 | DATA SECURITY TRANSACTIONS USING SOFTWARE CONTAINER MACHINE READABLE CONFIGURATION DATA | KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN | 9d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18740466 | DATA SECURITY TRANSACTIONS USING SOFTWARE CONTAINER MACHINE READABLE CONFIGURATION DATA | KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN | 9d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2494 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18740466 | DATA SECURITY TRANSACTIONS USING SOFTWARE CONTAINER MACHINE READABLE CONFIGURATION DATA | KONG, ALAN LINGQIAN | 2494 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
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