Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Vonage Business Inc. has 6 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These 6 pending office actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, which shows that at least one examiner is handling multiple matters for the company. The prosecution is taking place across 4 distinct art units, indicating a significant amount of technical variety in the networking applications being pursued.
NAOREEN, NAZIA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. Since there are 6 pending office actions total, the 2 pending office actions under NAOREEN, NAZIA represent a notable portion of the current workload. This makes the interaction with this specific examiner an important factor for the company's success in the Networking & Security sector.
With 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, the portfolio requires attention to the specific requirements of several different departments. The fact that NAOREEN, NAZIA manages 2 pending office actions suggests that a consistent strategy can be applied to those specific matters. Practitioners should focus on the 6 pending office actions to ensure the 5 distinct examiners receive clear and persuasive arguments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NAOREEN, NAZIA | 2 | 71.0% | +11.6% |
| WILLIAMS, CLAYTON R | 1 | 81.9% | -5.0% |
| SULTANA, NADIRA | 1 | 72.7% | +35.7% |
| SHAH, ANTIM G | 1 | 74.2% | +39.2% |
| GREENE, JOSEPH L | 1 | 62.9% | +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 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18839432 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RATE-CONTROL OF MEDIA STREAMS WITH SELECTABLE DISCRETE LEVELS OF QUALITY IN SELECTIVE FORWARDING UNITS | NAOREEN, NAZIA | 5d |
| 18740829 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME AUTOMATED LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS | SHAH, ANTIM G | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18839432 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RATE-CONTROL OF MEDIA STREAMS WITH SELECTABLE DISCRETE LEVELS OF QUALITY IN SELECTIVE FORWARDING UNITS | NAOREEN, NAZIA | 5d |
| 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 | — |
| 18740829 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME AUTOMATED LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS | SHAH, ANTIM G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2458 | 2 |
| 2447 | 1 |
| 2693 | 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 | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18839432 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RATE-CONTROL OF MEDIA STREAMS WITH SELECTABLE DISCRETE LEVELS OF QUALITY IN SELECTIVE FORWARDING UNITS | NAOREEN, NAZIA | 2458 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Aug 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 |
| 18740829 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME AUTOMATED LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS | SHAH, ANTIM G | 2693 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 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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