Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
VIEWPOINTSYSTEM GMBH is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These 2 actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each examiner handles 1 action. This distribution means that no individual examiner has a majority influence over the company's current prosecution pipeline.
The pending actions are also located in 2 distinct art units, reflecting a technical breadth that requires navigation of different administrative silos. BOYLAN, JAMES T is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This accounts for 1 of the total pending actions for VIEWPOINTSYSTEM GMBH. The fact that distinct examiners are working in distinct art units suggests that the company's networking and security filings are being evaluated under different sets of technical standards. With only 2 pending actions in the portfolio, the data provides a diverse look at how the company's technology is being received across different parts of the USPTO.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOYLAN, JAMES T | 1 | 63.2% | +10.7% |
| SAHLE, MAHIDERE S | 1 | 79.5% | +13.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18690842 | NOSE PAD EYE/GAZE TRACKING MODULE APPLICABLE TO SMART GLASSES OR HEAD WEARABLE DEVICE | SAHLE, MAHIDERE S | 15d overdue |
| 19318642 | EYE TRACKING KIT APPLICABLE TO EYE GLASSES | BOYLAN, JAMES 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18690842 | NOSE PAD EYE/GAZE TRACKING MODULE APPLICABLE TO SMART GLASSES OR HEAD WEARABLE DEVICE | SAHLE, MAHIDERE S | 15d overdue |
| 19318642 | EYE TRACKING KIT APPLICABLE TO EYE GLASSES | BOYLAN, JAMES T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2486 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19318642 | EYE TRACKING KIT APPLICABLE TO EYE GLASSES | BOYLAN, JAMES T | 2486 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2025 |
| 18690842 | NOSE PAD EYE/GAZE TRACKING MODULE APPLICABLE TO SMART GLASSES OR HEAD WEARABLE DEVICE | SAHLE, MAHIDERE S | 2872 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
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