Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
10 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Turner Broadcasting System Inc. manages a company patent portfolio in the Networking & Security technology area with 10 pending office actions currently active. These actions are distributed among 6 distinct examiners, which implies a concentration of work among a small group of officials. The prosecution is further focused within 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the pending applications share closely related technical subject matter.
DAVIS, CHENEA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 5 busiest examiner pending office actions. This represents exactly half of the 10 pending office actions for the company, making this examiner's decisions a primary driver of the portfolio's overall progress. The remaining actions are split among the other 5 distinct examiners, highlighting a significant imbalance in the distribution of the workload.
Practitioners should focus heavily on the examination patterns of DAVIS, CHENEA, as this individual's throughput directly impacts 5 busiest examiner pending office actions. The concentration within 3 distinct art units also allows for a more consistent prosecution strategy compared to portfolios spread across more units. With 10 pending office actions and only 6 distinct examiners, there is a clear opportunity to apply insights from one application to others handled by the same examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (10%) |
| §103 only | 8 (80%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (10%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, CHENEA | 5 | 72.4% | +16.2% |
| KIM, WILLIAM JW | 1 | 78.6% | +15.2% |
| SALCE, JASON P | 1 | 68.1% | +16.2% |
| OCAK, ADIL | 1 | 75.0% | +17.2% |
| ALAM, MUSHFIKH I | 1 | 58.2% | +38.2% |
| CASTRO, ALFONSO | 1 | 51.0% | +19.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19248595 | DISPARATE LIVE MEDIA OUTPUT STREAM PLAYOUT AND BROADCAST DISTRIBUTION | KIM, WILLIAM JW | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18814740 | CONCURRENT PRESENTATION OF NON-PROGRAMMING MEDIA ASSETS WITH PROGRAMMING MEDIA CONTENT AT A CLIENT DEVICE | OCAK, ADIL | 44d overdue |
| 18323582 | PUBLISHING DISPARATE LIVE MEDIA OUTPUT STREAMS IN MIXED MODE | DAVIS, CHENEA | 31d overdue |
| 18943267 | CONTENT IDENTIFICATION WITH PRIVACY AND SECURITY | SALCE, JASON P | 1d overdue |
| 18323699 | GENERATING UNIFIED METADATA FOR A PLURALITY OF DISTRIBUTION PLATFORMS | CASTRO, ALFONSO | 14d |
| 18766103 | CREATION OF CHANNELS USING PRE-ENCODED MEDIA ASSETS | DAVIS, CHENEA | 41d |
| 18478577 | DELIVERY OF DIFFERENT SERVICES THROUGH DIFFERENT CLIENT DEVICES | ALAM, MUSHFIKH I | 47d |
| 19248595 | DISPARATE LIVE MEDIA OUTPUT STREAM PLAYOUT AND BROADCAST DISTRIBUTION | KIM, WILLIAM JW | — |
| 19030469 | PUBLISHING A DISPARATE PER-CLIENT LIVE MEDIA OUTPUT STREAM BASED ON DYNAMIC INSERTION OF TARGETED NON-PROGRAMMING CONTENT AND CUSTOMIZED PROGRAMMING CONTENT | DAVIS, CHENEA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2421 | 7 |
| 2426 | 2 |
| 2425 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19248595 | DISPARATE LIVE MEDIA OUTPUT STREAM PLAYOUT AND BROADCAST DISTRIBUTION | KIM, WILLIAM JW | 2425 | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19030469 | PUBLISHING A DISPARATE PER-CLIENT LIVE MEDIA OUTPUT STREAM BASED ON DYNAMIC INSERTION OF TARGETED NON-PROGRAMMING CONTENT AND CUSTOMIZED PROGRAMMING CONTENT | DAVIS, CHENEA | 2421 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19030491 | DYNAMIC PLAYOUT BUFFER FOR DISPARATE LIVE MEDIA OUTPUT STREAM | DAVIS, CHENEA | 2421 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19029425 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A PRE-ENCODED MEDIA ASSET FOR IMMEDIATE PLAYBACK | DAVIS, CHENEA | 2421 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18943267 | CONTENT IDENTIFICATION WITH PRIVACY AND SECURITY | SALCE, JASON P | 2421 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18814740 | CONCURRENT PRESENTATION OF NON-PROGRAMMING MEDIA ASSETS WITH PROGRAMMING MEDIA CONTENT AT A CLIENT DEVICE | OCAK, ADIL | 2426 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18766103 | CREATION OF CHANNELS USING PRE-ENCODED MEDIA ASSETS | DAVIS, CHENEA | 2421 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18478577 | DELIVERY OF DIFFERENT SERVICES THROUGH DIFFERENT CLIENT DEVICES | ALAM, MUSHFIKH I | 2426 | §103 | Final Rejection | 47d | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18323582 | PUBLISHING DISPARATE LIVE MEDIA OUTPUT STREAMS IN MIXED MODE | DAVIS, CHENEA | 2421 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18323699 | GENERATING UNIFIED METADATA FOR A PLURALITY OF DISTRIBUTION PLATFORMS | CASTRO, ALFONSO | 2421 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
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