Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Visual Defence Inc. operates a patent portfolio within the Computing & Software technology area. The company is currently addressing 1 pending office action. This figure represents the total volume of active prosecution for the company at this time.
The portfolio's active matters are managed by 1 distinct examiner. This examiner is situated within 1 distinct art unit. Such a concentrated structure indicates that the current patent office interaction is limited to a single technical group and a single individual within the computing sector.
DEROSE, VOLVICK is the busiest examiner for Visual Defence Inc., holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 action accounts for the entirety of the pending office actions reported for the company. The prosecution strategy is therefore focused on the specific requirements and feedback of this one examiner.
With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, there is no diversity in the current review process. Practitioners should focus on the specific patterns of the art unit where the pending office action is being evaluated.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEROSE, VOLVICK | 1 | 90.0% | +11.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19203972 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODIFYING A SMART PHONE OR TABLET DEVICE FOR HYBRID AUTOMATED SMART DEVICE USE | DEROSE, VOLVICK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19203972 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODIFYING A SMART PHONE OR TABLET DEVICE FOR HYBRID AUTOMATED SMART DEVICE USE | DEROSE, VOLVICK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2176 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19203972 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODIFYING A SMART PHONE OR TABLET DEVICE FOR HYBRID AUTOMATED SMART DEVICE USE | DEROSE, VOLVICK | 2176 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialVisual Defence Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Volvick Derose has the most, with 1 of Visual Defence Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
