Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
18 pending office actions • 5 clients • 18 examiners • 14 art units • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 55 patents granted in the last 365 days
Law Office of Dorian Cartwright specializes in the Networking & Security technology area, having managed 681 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 95.84 percent, which demonstrates the proportion of its applications that reach a grant. This record of 681 career applications serves as the basis for the firm's experience in the networking and security sectors.
Prosecution at the firm is characterized by an average of 3.21 office actions per allowance. This figure shows the typical number of interactions between the firm and examiners before a patent is allowed. Currently, the firm has 11 pending office actions, indicating its active workload within the Networking & Security area. These 11 pending office actions are fewer than the 681 career applications on record.
The 681 career applications and 95.84 percent allowance rate establish the firm's historical performance. The 3.21 office actions per allowance provide a benchmark for the expected duration of the prosecution process. The 11 pending office actions represent the firm's immediate focus as it continues to manage its clients' patent portfolios.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 only | 1 (6%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (11%) |
| §103 only | 7 (39%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (39%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOMERS, MARC S | 1 | 65.0% | +34.4% |
| HOLLISTER, JAMES ROSS | 1 | 76.0% | +24.3% |
| BHANDARI, SHREYAJ RAM | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| THAWNG, MANG BOI | 1 | 93.4% | -1.2% |
| RUTNAM, SAMUEL DILAN | 1 | 86.7% | +17.8% |
| ROS, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 52.6% | +34.7% |
| SALEHI, HELAI | 1 | 73.0% | +32.2% |
| PINSKY, DOUGLAS W | 1 | 24.4% | +15.9% |
| IDIAKE, VINCENT I | 1 | 71.5% | +18.6% |
| DIROMA, SCOTT MICHAEL | 1 | 27.3% | +26.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18968748 | AUTOMATED DETECTION OF WEBSITE IMPERSONATION AND PHISHING ATTEMPTS USING MACHINE LEARNING FOR FEATURE EXTRACTION AND SIMILARITY SEARCH | BHANDARI, SHREYAJ RAM | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18238081 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HARDWARE ASSISTED INITIAL AND SUBSEQUENT EVENT DETECTION | NAJI, YOUNES | 45d overdue |
| 18401570 | TRANSPARENT PROXY MODE AUTHENTICATION IN DNS DDOS MITIGATION | MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN | 19d overdue |
| 19207257 | TOKENIZED TEXT FOR EFFICIENT SEARCHING BY MACHINE LEARNING (ML) APPLICATIONS | SOMERS, MARC S | 42d |
| 18669073 | INDIVIDUALIZED COUPON OFFERS BASED ON CONSUMER NFT BEHAVIOR | ANDREI, RADU | 84d |
| 18919418 | STEERING FRAGMENTATION OF DATA PACKETS ON DATA COMMUNICATION NETWORKS BASED ON DATA PACKET SIZE | THAWNG, MANG BOI | — |
| 18898233 | EMBEDDING AN ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT NEURON CAPABLE OF PACKET INSPECTION AND SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION IN IPV6 ENABLED WLAN NETWORKS | RUTNAM, SAMUEL DILAN | — |
| 18669018 | NFT-BASED RENTAL CERTIFICATE FOR RENTAL HISTORY | PINSKY, DOUGLAS W | — |
| 18669042 | CHAT APPLICATION NFT TRANSACTIONS | DIROMA, SCOTT MICHAEL | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19207257 | TOKENIZED TEXT FOR EFFICIENT SEARCHING BY MACHINE LEARNING (ML) APPLICATIONS | SOMERS, MARC S | 42d |
| 19096228 | FAST GAP REDUCTION IN POLICY TREE CREATION FOR POLICY SET WITH UNEVEN DENSITY | HOLLISTER, JAMES ROSS | — |
| 18898233 | EMBEDDING AN ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT NEURON CAPABLE OF PACKET INSPECTION AND SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION IN IPV6 ENABLED WLAN NETWORKS | RUTNAM, SAMUEL DILAN | — |
| 18807483 | MOBILE PLUMBING TOOL FOR UNCLOGGING DRAIN PIPES WITH AIR-PRESSURIZED WATER | ROS, NICHOLAS A | — |
| 18759964 | VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK (VPN) TUNNELING OVER A DATA NETWORK COMBINING BOTH ENCRYPTED AND UNENCRYPTED DATA STREAMS | SALEHI, HELAI | — |
| 18669018 | NFT-BASED RENTAL CERTIFICATE FOR RENTAL HISTORY | PINSKY, DOUGLAS W | — |
| 18669030 | NFT-BASED SPORTS PLAYER SCOUTING RECORDS | IDIAKE, VINCENT I | — |
| 18669042 | CHAT APPLICATION NFT TRANSACTIONS | DIROMA, SCOTT MICHAEL | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Fortinet | 11 |
| Datacurve | 4 |
| Anacode Labs Inc. | 1 |
| Drain T Ip LLC | 1 |
| Everest Networks, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3698 | 3 |
| 2159 | 1 |
| 2434 | 1 |
| 2476 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| 2433 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| 2844 | 1 |
| 2454 | 1 |
| 2445 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19207257 | TOKENIZED TEXT FOR EFFICIENT SEARCHING BY MACHINE LEARNING (ML) APPLICATIONS | Anacode Labs Inc. | SOMERS, MARC S | 2159 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19096228 | FAST GAP REDUCTION IN POLICY TREE CREATION FOR POLICY SET WITH UNEVEN DENSITY | Fortinet, Inc. | HOLLISTER, JAMES ROSS | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 | |
| 18968748 | AUTOMATED DETECTION OF WEBSITE IMPERSONATION AND PHISHING ATTEMPTS USING MACHINE LEARNING FOR FEATURE EXTRACTION AND SIMILARITY SEARCH | Fortinet, Inc. | BHANDARI, SHREYAJ RAM | 2434 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18919418 | STEERING FRAGMENTATION OF DATA PACKETS ON DATA COMMUNICATION NETWORKS BASED ON DATA PACKET SIZE | Fortinet, Inc. | THAWNG, MANG BOI | 2476 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18898233 | EMBEDDING AN ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT NEURON CAPABLE OF PACKET INSPECTION AND SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION IN IPV6 ENABLED WLAN NETWORKS | Fortinet, Inc. | RUTNAM, SAMUEL DILAN | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 | |
| 18807483 | MOBILE PLUMBING TOOL FOR UNCLOGGING DRAIN PIPES WITH AIR-PRESSURIZED WATER | Drain T Ip LLC | ROS, NICHOLAS A | 3754 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18759964 | VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK (VPN) TUNNELING OVER A DATA NETWORK COMBINING BOTH ENCRYPTED AND UNENCRYPTED DATA STREAMS | Fortinet, Inc. | SALEHI, HELAI | 2433 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2024 |
| 18669018 | NFT-BASED RENTAL CERTIFICATE FOR RENTAL HISTORY | Datacurve, Inc. | PINSKY, DOUGLAS W | 3626 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18669030 | NFT-BASED SPORTS PLAYER SCOUTING RECORDS | Datacurve, Inc. | IDIAKE, VINCENT I | 3698 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18669042 | CHAT APPLICATION NFT TRANSACTIONS | Datacurve, Inc. | DIROMA, SCOTT MICHAEL | 3698 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18669073 | INDIVIDUALIZED COUPON OFFERS BASED ON CONSUMER NFT BEHAVIOR | Datacurve, Inc. | ANDREI, RADU | 3698 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 84d | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18634144 | Compact Integral Conformal Multi-port Antenna for Wireless Communications | Everest Networks, Inc. | LEE, WILSON | 2844 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18401570 | TRANSPARENT PROXY MODE AUTHENTICATION IN DNS DDOS MITIGATION | Fortinet, Inc. | MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN | 2454 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Dec 31, 2023 |
| 18238081 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HARDWARE ASSISTED INITIAL AND SUBSEQUENT EVENT DETECTION | Fortinet, Inc. | NAJI, YOUNES | 2445 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 18072230 | CLOUD-BASED VIRTUAL EXTENSIBLE LOCAL AREA NETWORK (VXLAN) TUNNEL SWITCHING ACROSS ACCESS POINTS | Fortinet, Inc. | NGUYEN, VINH | 2453 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
| 17957762 | ATTAINING RAPID RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) CHANNEL INSPECTION USING INTELLIGENT TRANSCEIVER SCANNING IN WLAN NETWORKS | Fortinet, Inc. | HUA, QUAN M | 2645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
| 17958026 | UNSUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING TO DERIVE OPTIMAL WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY THRESHOLDS FOR BEST NETWORK PERFORMANCE | Fortinet, Inc. | WILLIAMS, ALYSSA RENEE | 2465 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
| 16227098 | PROTECTION AGAINST OBSOLETE FILE FORMATS | Fortinet, Inc. | DAVIS, ZACHARY A | 2492 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2018 |
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