Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
ThinkAnalytics Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner handles 1 case. The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units.
ROBERT F MAY is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is divided. The 2 distinct art units indicate that the pending matters fall into different technical classifications within Networking & Security.
The presence of 3 distinct examiners for the active cases shows that the portfolio's examination is not centralized under a specific individual. Practitioners should prepare for different examination styles across 2 distinct art units. This distribution across multiple art units and examiners is a notable characteristic of the ThinkAnalytics Ltd. prosecution profile.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAY, ROBERT F | 1 | 73.4% | +31.8% |
| SHANG, ANNAN Q | 1 | 70.8% | +10.7% |
| FLYNN, RANDY A | 1 | 65.4% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18130891 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A CONTENT SELECTION INTERFACE | FLYNN, RANDY A | 19d |
| 18906673 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING TEXT DATA | MAY, ROBERT F | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18130891 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A CONTENT SELECTION INTERFACE | FLYNN, RANDY A | 19d |
| 18622379 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A VIRTUAL CHANNEL | SHANG, ANNAN Q | 30d |
| 18906673 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING TEXT DATA | MAY, ROBERT F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2424 | 2 |
| 2154 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18906673 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING TEXT DATA | MAY, ROBERT F | 2154 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18622379 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A VIRTUAL CHANNEL | SHANG, ANNAN Q | 2424 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18130891 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A CONTENT SELECTION INTERFACE | FLYNN, RANDY A | 2424 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Apr 04, 2023 |
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