Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
U-TEC GROUP INC. maintains 2 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a diverse technological focus within the sector. The portfolio involves 2 distinct examiners, creating multiple points of contact with the patent office. This distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company is pursuing different aspects of networking technology.
KASSA, ELIZABETH is identified as the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. This represents a portion of the 2 pending office actions in the total portfolio. With 2 distinct examiners each handling a portion of the workload, the company must manage different examiner styles across its active filings. Each of the examiners is responsible for exactly one action.
The presence of 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners requires a strategy that accounts for varied administrative expectations. KASSA, ELIZABETH handles one of the actions, while another examiner handles the second. This structure ensures that the Networking & Security filings are not dependent on a single individual's review, providing a more balanced 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KASSA, ELIZABETH | 1 | 80.2% | -5.5% |
| BOSWELL, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 67.4% | +26.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643829 | Multi-protocol combined IoT networking method | KASSA, ELIZABETH | 77d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18630001 | ANTI-TECHNICAL UNLOCKING PINBALL LOCK CYLINDER SET | BOSWELL, CHRISTOPHER J | 8d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2457 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18643829 | Multi-protocol combined IoT networking method | KASSA, ELIZABETH | 2457 | §103 | Final Rejection | 77d | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18630001 | ANTI-TECHNICAL UNLOCKING PINBALL LOCK CYLINDER SET | BOSWELL, CHRISTOPHER J | 3675 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
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