Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The Regents Of The Univ Of Co. A Body Corporate has 1 pending office action in the Networking & Security technology area. The current prosecution is highly focused, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a singular point of review for the university's active intellectual property in this sector, allowing for a very targeted prosecution strategy. The concentration within a single art unit suggests that the university's current networking and security research is being evaluated by a specific group of technical experts.
The busiest examiner, FABIO S LIMA, is currently reviewing the 1 pending office action. As this represents the only active action for the portfolio, the immediate prosecution strategy is centered on addressing the specific concerns raised by this examiner in the networking field. For a practitioner, the success of this workload is the primary indicator of the university's current progress in securing patent rights for this technology. Understanding the examiner's specific requirements will be key to moving this single application toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIMA, FABIO S | 1 | 77.3% | +14.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18651166 | Optical imaging devices and variable-focus lens elements, and methods for using them | LIMA, FABIO S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2486 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18651166 | Optical imaging devices and variable-focus lens elements, and methods for using them | LIMA, FABIO S | 2486 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialThe Regents Of The Univ Of Co. A Body Corporate has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Fabio S Lima has the most, with 1 of The Regents Of The Univ Of Co. A Body Corporate's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
