Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Zapfraud Inc. operates a patent portfolio within the Networking & Security technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action. This figure indicates a focused prosecution stage for the company's security-related technologies. For a practitioner, this volume suggests that the current legal efforts are concentrated on a single set of networking and security claims at the USPTO.
The examination of these filings is conducted by a distinct examiner in a single art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's networking innovations are being reviewed through a single administrative path. CHEN, SHIN HON is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The involvement of a single art unit ensures that the company's innovations are evaluated within a consistent technical and administrative framework.
CHEN, SHIN HON is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only a single pending action overall, the feedback from CHEN, SHIN HON is the primary factor in the portfolio's immediate progress. Practitioners should prepare responses that address the specific concerns of CHEN, SHIN HON and the standards of the art unit involved to advance the prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, SHIN HON | 1 | 86.2% | +13.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18156937 | DETECTING OF BUSINESS EMAIL COMPROMISE | CHEN, SHIN HON | 22d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18156937 | DETECTING OF BUSINESS EMAIL COMPROMISE | CHEN, SHIN HON | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2431 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18156937 | DETECTING OF BUSINESS EMAIL COMPROMISE | CHEN, SHIN HON | 2431 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
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