Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wonkwang University Center For Industry-Academy Cooperation currently has 7 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are spread across 7 distinct examiners, indicating a decentralized prosecution effort where each action is handled by a different individual. The portfolio spans 6 distinct art units, showing a broad technical footprint within the sector that requires familiarity with various examination groups.
GILLIS, BRIAN J is identified as the busiest examiner for the university. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that there are 7 distinct examiners for 7 pending actions, the workload is evenly distributed with no single examiner holding a majority of the cases. This distribution means that the prosecution strategy must account for the specific preferences of 7 different individuals.
The ratio of 7 distinct examiners to 6 distinct art units suggests that almost every examiner is working in a different art unit. This variety requires practitioners to adapt to the specific procedural nuances of nearly as many art units as there are pending actions. The 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner reflects the overall fragmented nature of the current prosecution pipeline, where no single examiner influences more than one case.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 4 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILLIS, BRIAN J | 1 | 72.0% | +25.0% |
| MAPA, MICHAEL Y | 1 | 71.4% | +27.0% |
| HARLEY, JASON A | 1 | 67.2% | +31.5% |
| HUDA, MUHAMMAD AINUL | 1 | 93.8% | +9.1% |
| PATEL, PARTHKUMAR | 1 | 78.2% | +23.2% |
| MOREAU, AUSTIN J | 1 | 77.7% | +28.0% |
| IM, THEODORE | 1 | 60.0% | +30.0% |
| DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 1 | 79.2% | +18.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18224803 | SL DRX-BASED OPERATION METHOD FOR SIDELINK COMMUNICATION | HUDA, MUHAMMAD AINUL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18371705 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RESOURCE SENSING AND SELECTION FOR ONE OR MORE LINKS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING DRX OPERATION | HARLEY, JASON A | 9d overdue |
| 17293609 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FOR SIDELINK COMMUNICATION | MOREAU, AUSTIN J | 13d |
| 18752154 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DRX-BASED SIDELINK COMMUNICATION | GILLIS, BRIAN J | — |
| 17908311 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FOR SIDELINK COMMUNICATION | DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18017776 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RETRANSMISSION IN SIDELINK COMMUNICATION | IM, THEODORE | 11d overdue |
| 18371705 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RESOURCE SENSING AND SELECTION FOR ONE OR MORE LINKS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING DRX OPERATION | HARLEY, JASON A | 9d overdue |
| 17293609 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FOR SIDELINK COMMUNICATION | MOREAU, AUSTIN J | 13d |
| 18028909 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENSING AND SELECTION OF RESOURCE IN SIDELINK COMMUNICATION | PATEL, PARTHKUMAR | 15d |
| 18752154 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DRX-BASED SIDELINK COMMUNICATION | GILLIS, BRIAN J | — |
| 18424019 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REQUESTING INTER-UE COORDINATION INFORMATION IN SIDELINK COMMUNICATION | MAPA, MICHAEL Y | — |
| 17908311 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FOR SIDELINK COMMUNICATION | DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2645 | 1 |
| 2468 | 1 |
| 2467 | 1 |
| 2479 | 1 |
| 2446 | 1 |
| 2413 | 1 |
| 2476 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18752154 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DRX-BASED SIDELINK COMMUNICATION | GILLIS, BRIAN J | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18424019 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REQUESTING INTER-UE COORDINATION INFORMATION IN SIDELINK COMMUNICATION | MAPA, MICHAEL Y | 2645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18371705 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RESOURCE SENSING AND SELECTION FOR ONE OR MORE LINKS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING DRX OPERATION | HARLEY, JASON A | 2468 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18224803 | SL DRX-BASED OPERATION METHOD FOR SIDELINK COMMUNICATION | HUDA, MUHAMMAD AINUL | 2467 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
| 18028909 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENSING AND SELECTION OF RESOURCE IN SIDELINK COMMUNICATION | PATEL, PARTHKUMAR | 2479 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 17293609 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FOR SIDELINK COMMUNICATION | MOREAU, AUSTIN J | 2446 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
| 18017776 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RETRANSMISSION IN SIDELINK COMMUNICATION | IM, THEODORE | 2413 | §103 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Jan 24, 2023 |
| 17908311 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FOR SIDELINK COMMUNICATION | DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 2476 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2022 |
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