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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vicon Industries Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Networking & Security technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, CHIN, RICKY, who is reviewing the case within 1 distinct art unit. Because there is only 1 pending office action, CHIN, RICKY is the busiest examiner with 1 pending case. This concentration means the company's entire current interaction with the office is dependent on the review of this specific examiner within the Networking & Security field.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner indicates a focused prosecution footprint. Practitioners representing the company navigate the specific preferences and procedural requirements of CHIN, RICKY. With 1 pending office action total, the administrative burden is concentrated, and the outcome of this single matter represents the current status of the portfolio. The lack of additional pending office actions across other examiners or art units simplifies the management of the company's intellectual property in this technology area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHIN, RICKY | 1 | 68.5% | +21.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19171955 | MODULAR SENSOR SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INSTALLING THE SAME | CHIN, RICKY | 35d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2424 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19171955 | MODULAR SENSOR SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INSTALLING THE SAME | CHIN, RICKY | 2424 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
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