Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vectra AI Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Networking & Security technology area. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner, CHIRAG R PATEL, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The prosecution is currently situated within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focus for the company's Networking & Security area filings. With 1 distinct examiner managing the docket, the prosecution process is centralized for this pending matter.
The 1 pending office action under CHIRAG R PATEL constitutes the entirety of the company's current activity in the Networking & Security area. Having 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit simplifies the interaction with the patent office and allows for a focused response strategy. This concentration ensures that the practitioner can address the specific concerns of the 1 distinct examiner involved. The outcome of this 1 pending office action will be an indicator of the company's progress within the 1 distinct art unit.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, CHIRAG R | 1 | 87.2% | +15.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18827568 | DISTRIBUTED NETWORK AND SECURITY OPERATIONS PLATFORM | PATEL, CHIRAG R | 8d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18827568 | DISTRIBUTED NETWORK AND SECURITY OPERATIONS PLATFORM | PATEL, CHIRAG R | 8d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2454 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18827568 | DISTRIBUTED NETWORK AND SECURITY OPERATIONS PLATFORM | PATEL, CHIRAG R | 2454 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
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