Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Withsecure Corporation is currently overseeing 6 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed among 6 distinct examiners, meaning each pending case is being reviewed by a different person. These examiners are located within 4 distinct art units, reflecting a variety of technical focuses within the company's security-related portfolio. This distribution requires a versatile prosecution strategy that can address the specific technical requirements of 4 different art units while managing relationships with 6 different examiners. The company's intellectual property efforts in this sector are thus spread across a wide range of examiner perspectives.
WALIULLAH, MOHAMMED is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action, which is 1 of the 6 total actions currently pending for the company. Because the 6 pending actions are evenly distributed among 6 distinct examiners, no single examiner holds a majority of the company's active cases. This decentralized structure reduces the company's reliance on any one examiner's discretion. The company's progress in the Networking & Security sector is therefore dependent on the individual outcomes of 6 independent prosecution tracks across 4 art units.
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 | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALIULLAH, MOHAMMED | 1 | 86.7% | +11.0% |
| RONI, SYED A | 1 | 82.1% | +22.2% |
| SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | 1 | 80.3% | +28.4% |
| JOHNSON, CARLTON | 1 | 58.0% | +33.0% |
| LI, MENG | 1 | 86.3% | +20.2% |
| ALI, AFAQ | 1 | 89.5% | +11.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19211005 | METHOD FOR EXPOSURE MANAGEMENT AND AN EXPOSURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | WALIULLAH, MOHAMMED | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18325295 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF THREAT DETECTION IN A COMPUTER OR COMPUTER NETWORK | ALI, AFAQ | 13d |
| 19081341 | ARRANGEMENT AND A METHOD OF THREAT PREVENTION IN A COMPUTER OR COMPUTER NETWORK | RONI, SYED A | — |
| 18809803 | METHOD OF THREAT DETECTION IN A THREAT DETECTION NETWORK AND THREAT DETECTION NETWORK | SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18792214 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF THREAT DETECTION IN A COMPUTER OR COMPUTER NETWORK | LI, MENG | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18325295 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF THREAT DETECTION IN A COMPUTER OR COMPUTER NETWORK | ALI, AFAQ | 13d |
| 18792240 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF THREAT DETECTION IN A COMPUTER OR COMPUTER NETWORK | JOHNSON, CARLTON | 39d |
| 19211005 | METHOD FOR EXPOSURE MANAGEMENT AND AN EXPOSURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | WALIULLAH, MOHAMMED | — |
| 19081341 | ARRANGEMENT AND A METHOD OF THREAT PREVENTION IN A COMPUTER OR COMPUTER NETWORK | RONI, SYED A | — |
| 18809803 | METHOD OF THREAT DETECTION IN A THREAT DETECTION NETWORK AND THREAT DETECTION NETWORK | SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18792214 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF THREAT DETECTION IN A COMPUTER OR COMPUTER NETWORK | LI, MENG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2493 | 1 |
| 2436 | 1 |
| 2437 | 1 |
| 2434 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19211005 | METHOD FOR EXPOSURE MANAGEMENT AND AN EXPOSURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | WALIULLAH, MOHAMMED | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 19081341 | ARRANGEMENT AND A METHOD OF THREAT PREVENTION IN A COMPUTER OR COMPUTER NETWORK | RONI, SYED A | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 18809803 | METHOD OF THREAT DETECTION IN A THREAT DETECTION NETWORK AND THREAT DETECTION NETWORK | SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | 2493 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18792240 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF THREAT DETECTION IN A COMPUTER OR COMPUTER NETWORK | JOHNSON, CARLTON | 2436 | §103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18792214 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF THREAT DETECTION IN A COMPUTER OR COMPUTER NETWORK | LI, MENG | 2437 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18325295 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF THREAT DETECTION IN A COMPUTER OR COMPUTER NETWORK | ALI, AFAQ | 2434 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
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