Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days
Uab 360 It operates in the Networking & Security technology area with 6 pending office actions. These applications are being reviewed by 6 distinct examiners. This distribution means that every pending matter is assigned to a different individual, requiring the company to manage unique examiner interactions simultaneously.
The company's patent activities are spread across 4 distinct art units. This indicates that the Networking & Security filings are diverse enough to fall under 4 different technical divisions. DUFFIELD, JEREMY S is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending action.
With the examiners and art units involved, the prosecution landscape is decentralized. The fact that DUFFIELD, JEREMY S only handles 1 action suggests that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the portfolio. This variety in the Networking & Security sector requires a flexible legal approach to accommodate the different procedural standards of the various technical divisions at the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOUIE, HOWARD H | 1 | 81.9% | +59.7% |
| DUFFIELD, JEREMY S | 1 | 49.3% | +52.6% |
| PARK, SANGSEOK | 1 | 83.8% | +15.3% |
| BROWN, ANTHONY D | 1 | 85.4% | +15.1% |
| RUBIN, BLAKE J | 1 | 76.1% | -3.1% |
| POPHAM, JEFFREY D | 1 | 37.8% | +24.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18923975 | OPTIMIZED AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM | PARK, SANGSEOK | 27d |
| 18920962 | OPTIMIZED ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM | BROWN, ANTHONY D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19169665 | SHARING DATA IN AN ORGANIZED STORAGE SYSTEM | LOUIE, HOWARD H | — |
| 19048178 | Enhanced Privacy Preserving Access To A VPN Service | DUFFIELD, JEREMY S | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18923975 | OPTIMIZED AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM | PARK, SANGSEOK | 27d |
| 19169665 | SHARING DATA IN AN ORGANIZED STORAGE SYSTEM | LOUIE, HOWARD H | — |
| 19048178 | Enhanced Privacy Preserving Access To A VPN Service | DUFFIELD, JEREMY S | — |
| 18920962 | OPTIMIZED ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM | BROWN, ANTHONY D | — |
| 17539354 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING URLS USING RENDERED CONTENT MACHINE LEARNING | POPHAM, JEFFREY D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2499 | 1 |
| 2408 | 1 |
| 2432 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19169665 | SHARING DATA IN AN ORGANIZED STORAGE SYSTEM | LOUIE, HOWARD H | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19048178 | Enhanced Privacy Preserving Access To A VPN Service | DUFFIELD, JEREMY S | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 18923975 | OPTIMIZED AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM | PARK, SANGSEOK | 2499 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18920962 | OPTIMIZED ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM | BROWN, ANTHONY D | 2408 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2024 |
| 18887795 | DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM CONFIGURATION DURING VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK CONNECTION | RUBIN, BLAKE J | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 17539354 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING URLS USING RENDERED CONTENT MACHINE LEARNING | POPHAM, JEFFREY D | 2432 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2021 |
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