Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
VIDEOAMP, INC. has 4 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners. Each of these actions is located in a different art unit, totaling 4 distinct art units. This ratio of actions to examiners and art units indicates a highly decentralized prosecution for the current portfolio. It suggests that the company's innovations are diverse enough to fall into 4 separate technical classifications.
DURAN, ARTHUR D is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The distribution shows that no 1 examiner or art unit has a majority influence over the company's pending matters. This variety requires the company to manage 4 separate tracks of communication and technical requirements. While this decentralization increases the complexity of the prosecution, it also ensures that the outcome of 1 action is unlikely to directly influence the others based on examiner or art unit consistency. Practitioners must navigate 4 different art unit cultures.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DURAN, ARTHUR D | 1 | 15.8% | +23.6% |
| CORBO, NICHOLAS T | 1 | 68.8% | +30.6% |
| CHBOUKI, TAREK | 1 | 81.2% | +24.0% |
| FLYNN, RANDY A | 1 | 65.4% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19179980 | DATA CLEAN ROOM | CHBOUKI, TAREK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19216598 | OUTCOME MEASUREMENT IN A CLEANROOM | DURAN, ARTHUR D | — |
| 19195582 | OUT-OF-HOME MEDIA MEASUREMENT | CORBO, NICHOLAS T | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19001269 | CROSS-SCREEN OPTIMIZATION OF ADVERTISING PLACEMENT | FLYNN, RANDY A | 46d |
| 19216598 | OUTCOME MEASUREMENT IN A CLEANROOM | DURAN, ARTHUR D | — |
| 19195582 | OUT-OF-HOME MEDIA MEASUREMENT | CORBO, NICHOLAS T | — |
| 19179980 | DATA CLEAN ROOM | CHBOUKI, TAREK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3622 | 1 |
| 2426 | 1 |
| 2165 | 1 |
| 2424 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19216598 | OUTCOME MEASUREMENT IN A CLEANROOM | DURAN, ARTHUR D | 3622 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 19195582 | OUT-OF-HOME MEDIA MEASUREMENT | CORBO, NICHOLAS T | 2426 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19179980 | DATA CLEAN ROOM | CHBOUKI, TAREK | 2165 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 19001269 | CROSS-SCREEN OPTIMIZATION OF ADVERTISING PLACEMENT | FLYNN, RANDY A | 2424 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
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