Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co., Ltd. currently has 5 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, showing a focused concentration of subject matter. Each of the 5 pending actions is assigned to a different examiner, meaning that the workload is distributed without overlap among the examiners for this portfolio.
LOTFI, KYLE M is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, though this individual is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates a fragmented prosecution landscape where strategies must be tailored to five different individual examiners despite the small total volume of active matters.
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 | 4 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOTFI, KYLE M | 1 | 64.7% | +7.2% |
| HO, AARON D | 1 | 75.5% | +14.9% |
| SULLIVAN, TYLER | 1 | 67.1% | +30.4% |
| SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | 1 | 82.2% | +16.8% |
| KABIR, MOHAMMAD H | 1 | 67.4% | +13.8% |
| KAMRAN, MEHRAN | 1 | 90.0% | +14.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19329550 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO ENCODING | LOTFI, KYLE M | — |
| 19086188 | DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HO, AARON D | — |
| 19021086 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND STORAGE MEDIUMS FOR VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING | SULLIVAN, TYLER | — |
| 19012972 | VEHICLE LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION METHOD, DEVICE, TERMINAL AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | — |
| 18801863 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT | KABIR, MOHAMMAD H | — |
| 18783372 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF | KAMRAN, MEHRAN | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19086188 | DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HO, AARON D | — |
| 19021086 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND STORAGE MEDIUMS FOR VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING | SULLIVAN, TYLER | — |
| 19012972 | VEHICLE LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION METHOD, DEVICE, TERMINAL AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | — |
| 18801863 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT | KABIR, MOHAMMAD H | — |
| 18783372 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF | KAMRAN, MEHRAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2425 | 1 |
| 2139 | 1 |
| 2487 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19329550 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO ENCODING | LOTFI, KYLE M | 2425 | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2025 |
| 19086188 | DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HO, AARON D | 2139 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19021086 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND STORAGE MEDIUMS FOR VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING | SULLIVAN, TYLER | 2487 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19012972 | VEHICLE LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION METHOD, DEVICE, TERMINAL AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18801863 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT | KABIR, MOHAMMAD H | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18783372 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF | KAMRAN, MEHRAN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
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