Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
10 pending office actions • 2 clients • 10 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kudelski Group & MAIER & MAIER, PLLC focuses on the Networking & Security technology area, having handled 91 career applications. The firm has a resolved allowance rate pct of 89.13. This success rate is achieved with an avg of 3.22 office actions per allowance, indicating the typical path to overcoming examiner rejections.
Currently, the firm is managing 5 pending office actions. These 5 pending office actions represent the firm's current active workload. The combination of a 89.13 resolved allowance rate pct and 91 career applications provides a view of the firm's prosecution strategy within the networking and security sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| §112 only | 2 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (10%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUYNH, AN SON PHI | 1 | 53.9% | +45.6% |
| PHAM, TOAN NGOC | 1 | 86.4% | +12.3% |
| DOAN, TRANG T | 1 | 83.0% | +16.8% |
| ALATA, YASSIN | 1 | 66.7% | +14.6% |
| KIM, TAE K | 1 | 74.7% | +5.1% |
| CHANG, KENNETH W | 1 | 86.4% | +1.0% |
| MURPHY, JOSEPH B | 1 | 90.2% | +12.9% |
| DANG, HUNG Q | 1 | 68.3% | +18.6% |
| HUANG, JAY | 1 | 53.0% | +20.7% |
| FIELDS, COURTNEY D | 1 | 84.1% | -4.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18259617 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING AN AUTHORIZATION TO ACCESS AN INTERACTIVE GOOD | FIELDS, COURTNEY D | 26d overdue |
| 19251937 | HAPTIC FEEDBACK DEVICE AND HAPTIC FEEDBACK METHOD | PHAM, TOAN NGOC | — |
| 19189900 | DOUBLE AUTHENTICATED ENCRYPTION IN CONTEXT OF FAULTS | DOAN, TRANG T | — |
| 18999391 | SECURELY TRANSMITTING DATA IN A DATA STREAM | CHANG, KENNETH W | — |
| 18845963 | METHOD TO PREVENT ANTI-REPLAY ATTACK | MURPHY, JOSEPH B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19090983 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS USING PERSONAS | ALATA, YASSIN | 27d |
| 18592782 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING A PLURALITY OF MULTIMEDIA COMPONENTS, CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND DEVICES | DANG, HUNG Q | 70d |
| 19312393 | SMART PLAYLIST | HUYNH, AN SON PHI | — |
| 19251937 | HAPTIC FEEDBACK DEVICE AND HAPTIC FEEDBACK METHOD | PHAM, TOAN NGOC | — |
| 19189900 | DOUBLE AUTHENTICATED ENCRYPTION IN CONTEXT OF FAULTS | DOAN, TRANG T | — |
| 18845963 | METHOD TO PREVENT ANTI-REPLAY ATTACK | MURPHY, JOSEPH B | — |
| 18399279 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR RESELLING DIGITAL MEDIA RIGHTS | HUANG, JAY | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Kudelski | 7 |
| OpenTV, Inc. | 3 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 1 |
| 2426 | 1 |
| 2438 | 1 |
| 2435 | 1 |
| 2484 | 1 |
| 3600 | 1 |
| 2436 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19312393 | SMART PLAYLIST | Opentv, Inc. | HUYNH, AN SON PHI | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2025 | |
| 19251937 | HAPTIC FEEDBACK DEVICE AND HAPTIC FEEDBACK METHOD | Nagravision Sàrl | PHAM, TOAN NGOC | 2686 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19189900 | DOUBLE AUTHENTICATED ENCRYPTION IN CONTEXT OF FAULTS | Nagravision Sarl | DOAN, TRANG T | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 | |
| 19090983 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS USING PERSONAS | Opentv, Inc. | ALATA, YASSIN | 2426 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19070754 | METHOD FOR ATTESTING AUTHENTICITY OF COMPUTING DEVICE | Nagravision Sàrl | KIM, TAE K | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 | |
| 18999391 | SECURELY TRANSMITTING DATA IN A DATA STREAM | Nagravision Sàrl | CHANG, KENNETH W | 2438 | §112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18845963 | METHOD TO PREVENT ANTI-REPLAY ATTACK | Nagravision Sàrl | MURPHY, JOSEPH B | 2435 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18592782 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING A PLURALITY OF MULTIMEDIA COMPONENTS, CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND DEVICES | Nagravision Sarl | DANG, HUNG Q | 2484 | §112 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18399279 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR RESELLING DIGITAL MEDIA RIGHTS | Opentv, Inc. | HUANG, JAY | 3600 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18259617 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING AN AUTHORIZATION TO ACCESS AN INTERACTIVE GOOD | Nagravision Sàrl | FIELDS, COURTNEY D | 2436 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
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