Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Winkk Inc. is active in the Networking & Security technology area. The company currently has 4 pending office actions. These 4 actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct art units. This indicates that every pending case is being reviewed by a different examiner, while the technology is split between two different sections of the networking and security field.
IDOWU, OLUGBENGA O is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for 1 pending office action. This examiner is one of the 4 distinct examiners currently reviewing the company's filings. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that practitioners must be prepared for different sets of examination guidelines. With 4 distinct examiners involved in 4 pending office actions, the company's prosecution strategy requires managing four separate individual relationships and styles simultaneously.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IDOWU, OLUGBENGA O | 1 | 71.6% | +19.0% |
| ABEDIN, SHANTO | 1 | 87.3% | +23.1% |
| CHOUAT, ABDERRAHMEN | 1 | 73.1% | +6.0% |
| NOAMAN, BASSAM A | 1 | 79.1% | +46.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18886105 | ENCRYPTION FOR ONE-WAY DATA STREAM | ABEDIN, SHANTO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18371280 | NETWORK AUTHENTICATION PROCESS | NOAMAN, BASSAM A | 38d overdue |
| 18813960 | TRUSTGPT | CHOUAT, ABDERRAHMEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18371280 | NETWORK AUTHENTICATION PROCESS | NOAMAN, BASSAM A | 38d overdue |
| 19038361 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCRYPTION KEY EXCHANGE WITH ENHANCED SECURITY THROUGH OPTI-ENCRYPTION CHANNEL | IDOWU, OLUGBENGA O | — |
| 18886105 | ENCRYPTION FOR ONE-WAY DATA STREAM | ABEDIN, SHANTO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2494 | 2 |
| 2497 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19038361 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCRYPTION KEY EXCHANGE WITH ENHANCED SECURITY THROUGH OPTI-ENCRYPTION CHANNEL | IDOWU, OLUGBENGA O | 2494 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18886105 | ENCRYPTION FOR ONE-WAY DATA STREAM | ABEDIN, SHANTO | 2494 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18813960 | TRUSTGPT | CHOUAT, ABDERRAHMEN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18371280 | NETWORK AUTHENTICATION PROCESS | NOAMAN, BASSAM A | 2497 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
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