Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
VASONA NETWORKS INC. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, which means that each examiner is currently evaluating a single application. This distribution ensures that the prosecution of these matters is not concentrated under one individual's discretion.
Both pending matters are located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a high degree of technical consistency in how the patent office categorizes the company's inventions. ROBERT M MORLAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, though he is only responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. The fact that a single art unit handles all pending office actions may allow the applicant to apply a unified strategy across its active files.
Practitioners should note that while there are distinct examiners, their placement in the same art unit likely means they share similar supervisory guidance. This can lead to more predictable prosecution compared to portfolios spread across multiple units. The focus on Networking & Security suggests the company's intellectual property efforts are concentrated in a specific technical niche.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORLAN, ROBERT M | 1 | 74.1% | +15.8% |
| WU, JIANYE | 1 | 82.0% | +14.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17347193 | Dejittering System | WU, JIANYE | 16d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17347193 | Dejittering System | WU, JIANYE | 16d |
| 18940842 | Tracking Flows Having Encrypted Sequence and Acknowledgment Numbers | MORLAN, ROBERT M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2462 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18940842 | Tracking Flows Having Encrypted Sequence and Acknowledgment Numbers | MORLAN, ROBERT M | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 17347193 | Dejittering System | WU, JIANYE | 2462 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Jun 14, 2021 |
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