Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
6 pending office actions • 1 client • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Holzer Patel Drennan - Seagate Technology LLC is associated with 2807 career applications in Networking & Security. The firm currently manages 5 pending office actions. The resolved allowance rate pct is 89.62, representing the success rate for its resolved applications. This history of 2807 applications provides a robust context for evaluating the firm's performance in the networking sector.
The average office actions per allowance is 3.15. This metric indicates the amount of examiner interaction typically required to reach an allowance. With 2807 career applications and an 89.62 resolved allowance rate pct, the firm's performance metrics are established across its primary technology area. The average of 3.15 office actions per allowance provides a baseline for predicting prosecution timelines. The 5 pending office actions reflect the firm's current activity for this client relationship.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 3 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FEREJA, SAMUEL D | 1 | 74.8% | +10.5% |
| LOONAN, ERIC T | 1 | 64.8% | +27.1% |
| ULLAH, SHARIF E | 1 | 84.7% | +21.5% |
| KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | 1 | 71.1% | +36.9% |
| ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | 1 | 12.0% | +41.3% |
| FOX, BRANDON C | 1 | 85.6% | +10.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17084940 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL FERROELECTRIC MEMORY | FOX, BRANDON C | 86d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18759635 | PROTOCOL BETWEEN SYSTEMS AND DRIVES FOR CAPACITY MANAGEMENT | LOONAN, ERIC T | 25d overdue |
| 18759321 | DISTRIBUTED MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION CODES FOR MULTIPLE PARTIES | ULLAH, SHARIF E | 8d overdue |
| 17565696 | SEGMENTATION AND LABELING FOR SINGLE MOLECULE SEQUENCING | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18929292 | VIDEO SURVEILLANCE NETWORK USING INTER-FRAME COMPRESSION | FEREJA, SAMUEL D | 140d overdue |
| 17084940 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL FERROELECTRIC MEMORY | FOX, BRANDON C | 86d overdue |
| 18759635 | PROTOCOL BETWEEN SYSTEMS AND DRIVES FOR CAPACITY MANAGEMENT | LOONAN, ERIC T | 25d overdue |
| 18759321 | DISTRIBUTED MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION CODES FOR MULTIPLE PARTIES | ULLAH, SHARIF E | 8d overdue |
| 18742990 | EVOLVING THRESHOLD FUNCTION SECRET SHARING | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | — |
| 17565696 | SEGMENTATION AND LABELING FOR SINGLE MOLECULE SEQUENCING | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Seagate | 6 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2487 | 1 |
| 2137 | 1 |
| 2495 | 1 |
| 2492 | 1 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18929292 | VIDEO SURVEILLANCE NETWORK USING INTER-FRAME COMPRESSION | Seagate Technology LLC | FEREJA, SAMUEL D | 2487 | §103 | Final Rejection | 140d overdue | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18759635 | PROTOCOL BETWEEN SYSTEMS AND DRIVES FOR CAPACITY MANAGEMENT | Seagate Technology LLC | LOONAN, ERIC T | 2137 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18759321 | DISTRIBUTED MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION CODES FOR MULTIPLE PARTIES | Seagate Technology LLC | ULLAH, SHARIF E | 2495 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18742990 | EVOLVING THRESHOLD FUNCTION SECRET SHARING | Seagate Technology LLC | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | 2492 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 17565696 | SEGMENTATION AND LABELING FOR SINGLE MOLECULE SEQUENCING | Seagate Technology LLC | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | 1687 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2021 |
| 17084940 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL FERROELECTRIC MEMORY | Seagate Technology LLC | FOX, BRANDON C | 2818 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 86d overdue | Pending | Oct 30, 2020 |
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