Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vivotek Inc. has 2 pending office actions currently active in the Networking & Security technology area. These matters are split between 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that no single individual is overwhelmed by the company's current filings. Furthermore, the workload is spread across 2 distinct art units, which may indicate a diverse range of sub-technologies within the broader networking sector.
DANG, HUNG Q is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. This is one of the pending office actions currently facing the company. Because each examiner is assigned to a different art unit, the prosecution strategy must account for potentially varying examination standards across these different administrative divisions.
The small volume of pending actions allows for focused attention on each individual response. With multiple distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units involved, the applicant must manage a variety of examiner preferences and art unit guidelines. This distribution suggests a range of technical challenges within the networking sector. Practitioners should be prepared to adapt their arguments to the specific technical nuances recognized by each separate art unit. This structure requires the legal team to stay versatile and responsive to a variety of technical and procedural requirements.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANG, HUNG Q | 1 | 68.3% | +18.6% |
| DING, XIAOMAO | 1 | 75.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18792572 | AUTOMATIC RULE SETTING METHOD AND IMAGE CONTENT ANALYSIS APPARATUS | DANG, HUNG Q | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18792572 | AUTOMATIC RULE SETTING METHOD AND IMAGE CONTENT ANALYSIS APPARATUS | DANG, HUNG Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2484 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18792572 | AUTOMATIC RULE SETTING METHOD AND IMAGE CONTENT ANALYSIS APPARATUS | DANG, HUNG Q | 2484 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18646786 | IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD AND IMAGE ANALYSIS APPARATUS | DING, XIAOMAO | 2674 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
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