Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
ThreatSTOP, Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. Each examiner belongs to a different art unit, totaling 2 distinct art units for the current portfolio. This distribution indicates that the company's networking matters are being reviewed in separate specialized groups within the USPTO.
ESCALANTE, OVIDIO is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed. The 2 distinct art units indicate that the pending matters involve different specialized aspects of Networking & Security. With 2 distinct examiners in 2 distinct art units, the applicant faces two independent prosecution environments, requiring distinct strategies for each of the 2 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Double-patenting only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESCALANTE, OVIDIO | 1 | 76.3% | +5.8% |
| WOLDEMARIAM, AYELE F | 1 | 59.7% | +55.5% |
| BAYOU, YONAS A | 1 | 84.2% | +15.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17996407 | DESTINATION-BASED POLICY SELECTION AND AUTHENTICATION | BAYOU, YONAS A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18662852 | PROPAGATING INFORMATION WITH NETWORK NODES | WOLDEMARIAM, AYELE F | 30d overdue |
| 17996407 | DESTINATION-BASED POLICY SELECTION AND AUTHENTICATION | BAYOU, YONAS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3992 | 1 |
| 2447 | 1 |
| 2499 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18788078 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROPAGATING NETWORK POLICY | ESCALANTE, OVIDIO | 3992 | DP | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18662852 | PROPAGATING INFORMATION WITH NETWORK NODES | WOLDEMARIAM, AYELE F | 2447 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 17996407 | DESTINATION-BASED POLICY SELECTION AND AUTHENTICATION | BAYOU, YONAS A | 2499 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2022 |
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