Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
UMBRA Technologies Ltd. maintains 2 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These applications are split between distinct art units and are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. Melvin H Pollack is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. The data shows a consistent ratio between pending actions and examiners, indicating that the prosecution is distributed among different individuals for its current volume.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLLACK, MELVIN H | 1 | 86.0% | +5.0% |
| PATEL, PARTHKUMAR | 1 | 78.2% | +23.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19337268 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A GLOBAL VIRTUAL NETWORK | POLLACK, MELVIN H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19307119 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIRTUAL INTERFACES AND ADVANCED SMART ROUTING IN A GLOBAL VIRTUAL NETWORK | PATEL, PARTHKUMAR | 35d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2445 | 1 |
| 2479 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19337268 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A GLOBAL VIRTUAL NETWORK | POLLACK, MELVIN H | 2445 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2025 |
| 19307119 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIRTUAL INTERFACES AND ADVANCED SMART ROUTING IN A GLOBAL VIRTUAL NETWORK | PATEL, PARTHKUMAR | 2479 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Aug 22, 2025 |
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