Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Vonage Business Inc. currently has 4 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for one case. The portfolio is also distributed across 4 distinct art units, so every pending application is being reviewed in a different technical department. This structure ensures that the company's networking and security applications are evaluated independently by four different specialized groups.
WILLIAMS, CLAYTON R is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. With a total of 4 pending actions, the workload is split among the 4 distinct examiners. This distribution across 4 art units requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to four different examiner styles and departmental norms. Practitioners should be prepared for independent reviews of each application, as there is no current overlap in examiners or art units to provide consistent feedback.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (75%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAMS, CLAYTON R | 1 | 81.9% | -4.8% |
| SULTANA, NADIRA | 1 | 73.5% | +36.3% |
| NAOREEN, NAZIA | 1 | 71.2% | +11.5% |
| GREENE, JOSEPH L | 1 | 63.0% | +35.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19250230 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MEDIA COMMUNICATION PROGRAMMABLE SERVICES | WILLIAMS, CLAYTON R | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18838599 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RATE CONTROL OF SINGLE QUALITY MEDIA STREAMS IN SELECTIVE FORWARDING UNITS | NAOREEN, NAZIA | 5d |
| 17213574 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING VIDEO CONTENT IN A VIDEO CONFERENCE SESSION | GREENE, JOSEPH L | 14d |
| 18986144 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING IDENTITY USING BIOMETRIC DATA | SULTANA, NADIRA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2447 | 1 |
| 2653 | 1 |
| 2458 | 1 |
| 2443 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19250230 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MEDIA COMMUNICATION PROGRAMMABLE SERVICES | WILLIAMS, CLAYTON R | 2447 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 18986144 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING IDENTITY USING BIOMETRIC DATA | SULTANA, NADIRA | 2653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18838599 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RATE CONTROL OF SINGLE QUALITY MEDIA STREAMS IN SELECTIVE FORWARDING UNITS | NAOREEN, NAZIA | 2458 | §102 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 17213574 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING VIDEO CONTENT IN A VIDEO CONFERENCE SESSION | GREENE, JOSEPH L | 2443 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Mar 26, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialVonage Business Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Clayton R Williams has the most, with 1 of Vonage Business Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
