Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Whitehead Investments LLC currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. Both of these filings are assigned to 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, creating a highly concentrated prosecution environment. This means that the company's entire pending workload is subject to the review and discretion of a single individual at the USPTO. Such concentration can lead to highly consistent outcomes but also increases the impact of that single examiner's specific tendencies on the overall portfolio.
ZAND, DAVOUD AMAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 2 pending office actions. This concentration allows for a unified prosecution strategy, as the feedback received on one action is directly applicable to the other. However, it also means that the company's success in the Networking & Security field is currently dependent on the perspective of this one examiner and the standards of this 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should focus on building a strong rapport with this single official, as they hold total control over the pending work. The lack of diversity in examiners and art units simplifies the administrative process but centralizes the strategic risk.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZAND, DAVOUD AMAN | 2 | 85.1% | +9.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18979940 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORGANIZING AND INTERACTING WITH MESSAGES ON DEVICES | ZAND, DAVOUD AMAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2445 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19057880 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORGANIZING AND INTERACTING WITH MESSAGES ON DEVICES | ZAND, DAVOUD AMAN | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 18979940 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORGANIZING AND INTERACTING WITH MESSAGES ON DEVICES | ZAND, DAVOUD AMAN | 2445 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialWhitehead Investments LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Davoud Aman Zand has the most, with 2 of Whitehead Investments LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
