Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
53 pending office actions • 1 client • 53 examiners • 27 art units • 2 of 53 (4%) have an AI response strategy ready • 87 patents granted in the last 365 days
Merchant & Gould P.C. manages an extensive portfolio for CISCO, with 2996 career applications focused on the Networking & Security technology area. The firm has achieved a resolved allowance rate pct of 92.23, maintaining high success rates even at this scale. Prosecution for CISCO involves an avg office actions per allowance of 4.73.
Currently, the firm is handling 31 pending office actions for CISCO. The 2996 career applications highlight the firm's deep expertise in Networking & Security. While the 92.23 resolved allowance rate pct remains high, the 4.73 avg office actions per allowance indicates that practitioners should prepare for an involved prosecution cycle. These 31 pending office actions are part of a long-term strategy to protect CISCO's innovations, building on a foundation of 2996 career applications in this technical field. The firm must leverage its experience to navigate the current workload effectively.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 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. 11 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 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 9 (17%) |
| §103 only | 31 (58%) |
| §102 only | 1 (2%) |
| §112 only | 3 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (15%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SINGH, AMNEET | 1 | 79.2% | +8.3% |
| MOHL, PATRICK DANIEL | 1 | 68.5% | +12.0% |
| JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT | 1 | 86.9% | +15.0% |
| NGUYEN, ANH | 1 | 79.0% | +25.0% |
| VOGT, JACOB BUI | 1 | 44.4% | +85.0% |
| ELLIS, MATTHEW J | 1 | 69.5% | +30.3% |
| VANG, MENG | 1 | 78.2% | +26.9% |
| KHAN, ATTA | 1 | 83.7% | +24.8% |
| SAMS, MATTHEW C | 1 | 67.9% | +11.4% |
| GUERRA-ERAZO, EDGAR X | 1 | 84.4% | +15.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19095603 | KNOWLEDGE GRAPH REPRESENTATION FOR SCALABLE JOINT THREAT HUNTING, DETECTION, AND FORENSICS FOR CLOUD APPLICATIONS | JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT | — |
| 19006859 | UNIQUELY IDENTIFYING AN ENDPOINT THAT CONNECTS TO A NETWORK USING MULTIPLE CHANNELS/BANDS | KHAN, ATTA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18642483 | Make-Before-Break Roaming | KENNEDY, LESA M | 14d |
| 18790039 | PLUG-AND-PLAY ARCHITECTURE FOR DATA RESOURCE EXTENSIONS IN A NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE SYSTEM | SHIN, SEONG-AH A | 28d |
| 19264366 | TRIGGERING STAGGERED MULTI-USER UPLINK IN AMBIENT POWER DEVICE GROUP | SINGH, AMNEET | — |
| 19253411 | OPTIMIZED 6 GHZ WIFI CONFIGURATION AND REGULATORY COMPLIANCE FOR HIGH-ALTITUDE COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFTS | MOHL, PATRICK DANIEL | — |
| 19039608 | TASK DETECTION IN HETEROGENEOUS QUERIES USING PROMPT PROCESSING UNITS | VOGT, JACOB BUI | — |
| 19005618 | BACKSCATTER AMBIENT POWER (AMP) DEVICE DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION USING ULTRA WIDEBAND (UWB) IMPULSE RADAR | SAMS, MATTHEW C | — |
| 18958572 | LOW-LEVEL, MULTI-AGENT COMMUNICATIONS | GUERRA-ERAZO, EDGAR X | — |
| 18954044 | ACCESS POINT AUTO-LOCATION USING ULTRA-WIDEBAND | PERVIN, NUZHAT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19253411 | OPTIMIZED 6 GHZ WIFI CONFIGURATION AND REGULATORY COMPLIANCE FOR HIGH-ALTITUDE COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFTS | MOHL, PATRICK DANIEL | — |
| 19095603 | KNOWLEDGE GRAPH REPRESENTATION FOR SCALABLE JOINT THREAT HUNTING, DETECTION, AND FORENSICS FOR CLOUD APPLICATIONS | JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT | — |
| 19073934 | MULTI-ACCESS POINT COORDINATED SERVICE PERIODS | NGUYEN, ANH | — |
| 19039608 | TASK DETECTION IN HETEROGENEOUS QUERIES USING PROMPT PROCESSING UNITS | VOGT, JACOB BUI | — |
| 19039596 | ACCURACY EVALUATION AND SELECTIVE FEEDBACK CONTROL FOR PROMPT PROCESSING UNITS AT INFERENCE TIME | ELLIS, MATTHEW J | — |
| 19012511 | EPOCH SCHEME FOR STATION PRIVACY | VANG, MENG | — |
| 19006859 | UNIQUELY IDENTIFYING AN ENDPOINT THAT CONNECTS TO A NETWORK USING MULTIPLE CHANNELS/BANDS | KHAN, ATTA | — |
| 19005618 | BACKSCATTER AMBIENT POWER (AMP) DEVICE DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION USING ULTRA WIDEBAND (UWB) IMPULSE RADAR | SAMS, MATTHEW C | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 53 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2443 | 3 |
| 2653 | 2 |
| 2449 | 2 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| 2152 | 1 |
| 2656 | 1 |
| 2171 | 1 |
| 2159 | 1 |
| 2497 | 1 |
| 2414 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19264366 | TRIGGERING STAGGERED MULTI-USER UPLINK IN AMBIENT POWER DEVICE GROUP | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SINGH, AMNEET | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 | |
| 19253411 | OPTIMIZED 6 GHZ WIFI CONFIGURATION AND REGULATORY COMPLIANCE FOR HIGH-ALTITUDE COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFTS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | MOHL, PATRICK DANIEL | 3666 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19095603 | KNOWLEDGE GRAPH REPRESENTATION FOR SCALABLE JOINT THREAT HUNTING, DETECTION, AND FORENSICS FOR CLOUD APPLICATIONS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 | |
| 19073934 | MULTI-ACCESS POINT COORDINATED SERVICE PERIODS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | NGUYEN, ANH | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 | |
| 19039608 | TASK DETECTION IN HETEROGENEOUS QUERIES USING PROMPT PROCESSING UNITS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | VOGT, JACOB BUI | 2653 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19039596 | ACCURACY EVALUATION AND SELECTIVE FEEDBACK CONTROL FOR PROMPT PROCESSING UNITS AT INFERENCE TIME | Cisco Technology, Inc. | ELLIS, MATTHEW J | 2152 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19012511 | EPOCH SCHEME FOR STATION PRIVACY | Cisco Technology, Inc. | VANG, MENG | 2443 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 19006859 | UNIQUELY IDENTIFYING AN ENDPOINT THAT CONNECTS TO A NETWORK USING MULTIPLE CHANNELS/BANDS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | KHAN, ATTA | 2449 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 19005618 | BACKSCATTER AMBIENT POWER (AMP) DEVICE DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION USING ULTRA WIDEBAND (UWB) IMPULSE RADAR | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SAMS, MATTHEW C | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 | |
| 18958572 | LOW-LEVEL, MULTI-AGENT COMMUNICATIONS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | GUERRA-ERAZO, EDGAR X | 2656 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18955158 | SEAMLESS ROAMING IN ULTRA-WIDEBAND | Cisco Technology, Inc. | KOENIG, ROBERT H | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 | |
| 18954044 | ACCESS POINT AUTO-LOCATION USING ULTRA-WIDEBAND | Cisco Technology, Inc. | PERVIN, NUZHAT | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 | |
| 18947727 | TRAFFIC CLASSIFICATION (TCLAS) ENHANCEMENT FOR LOW LATENCY, LOW LOSS, SCALABLE (L4S) THROUGHOUT FLOW CLASSIFICATION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SOE, KYAW Z | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 | |
| 18947480 | LOW LATENCY, LOW LOSS, SCALABLE THROUGHPUT QUEUING AND MARKING | Cisco Technology, Inc. | KIM, HEE SOO | 2443 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18937778 | CONTROLLING ACCESS POINT LOCATION CROWDSOURCING | Cisco Technology, Inc. | GELIN, JEAN ALLAND | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 | |
| 18937844 | PRE-ASSOCIATIVE QUALITY-OF-EXPERIENCE ADVERTISING | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SCHEIBEL, ROBERT C | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 | |
| 18935746 | GENERATING MEANINGFUL SYSTEM EVENT SUMMARIES USING AN LLM | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SAMWEL, DANIEL | 2171 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18936423 | SIGNALING PREFERENCE ORDER OF LINKS AND MAXIMUM ALLOWED LINKS FOR MULTI-LINK OPERATION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SHARMA, POONAM | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 | |
| 18936539 | INTELLIGENT, CUSTOMIZABLE RAG WITH CONTEXTUAL COMPRESSION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | MINCEY, JERMAINE A | 2159 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18933351 | DATA CONTROLS USING PROMPT PROCESSING UNITS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SIDDO, IBRAHIM | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 | |
| 18931467 | CHUNK TRACEABILITY AND USER-BASED ACCESS CONTROL IN HORIZONTAL RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | HUSSEIN, HASSAN A | 2497 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | AI Ready | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18926981 | MULTI-ACCESS POINT COORDINATION SHARED RISK MEDIUM GROUP OF STATIONS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | ANSARI, NAJEEBUDDIN | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 | |
| 18923833 | BACKUP CONNECTIVITY FOR TROUBLESHOOTING | Cisco Technology, Inc. | NGUYEN, STEVEN H D | 2414 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18902408 | LOW POWER INDOOR (LPI) ACCESS POINT (AP) THAT PUNCTURES ITS CHANNEL WHILE RESPECTING INCUMBENTS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | DABIRI, HIDAYAT T | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 | |
| 18893094 | INTEROPERABLE TRANSMIT POWER ENVELOP (TPE) SIGNALING WITH AUTOMATED FREQUENCY COORDINATION (AFC) FREQUENCY RESPONSE | Cisco Technology, Inc. | AKINYEMI, AJIBOLA A | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 | |
| 18884850 | LOW LATENCY, LOW LOSS, SCALABLE THROUGHPUT SUPPORT AND QUEUING | Cisco Technology, Inc. | BENGZON, GREG C | 2444 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18828930 | MULTI-LINK PROCEDURE TO IDENTIFY LINK DISABLEMENT IN BASIC SERVICE SET (BSS) TRANSITION MANAGEMENT FRAMES | Cisco Technology, Inc. | PHAN, MAN U | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 | |
| 18821129 | ACCESS CONTROL LABELING VIA LLM SEMANTIC UNDERSTANDING | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SHAW, YIN CHEN | 2498 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18807189 | AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF PROBE AND PATH TRACING MODES | Cisco Technology, Inc. | WOOLCOCK, MADHU | 2451 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18790039 | PLUG-AND-PLAY ARCHITECTURE FOR DATA RESOURCE EXTENSIONS IN A NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE SYSTEM | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SHIN, SEONG-AH A | 2659 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18791246 | USING CROWDSOURCED REINFORCEMENT LEARNING TO OPTIMIZE A NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE SYSTEM | Cisco Technology, Inc. | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | 2653 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18786344 | Adaptive Channel Aging Detection to Determine Channel Sounding Intervals | Cisco Technology, Inc. | KIM, SUN JONG | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 | |
| 18786178 | MULTI-LINK DEVICE BASED RELAY | Cisco Technology, Inc. | HO, DUC CHI | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 | |
| 18785981 | DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE UNITS IN COORDINATED ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY-DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | CHO, HONG SOL | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 | |
| 18786297 | OPPORTUNISTIC KEY CACHING IN SUITE-B-192 | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SIDDIQI, MOHAMMAD A | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 | |
| 18786259 | PROXY ADDRESS RESOLUTION PROTOCOL SUPPORT IN MULTI-LINK DEVICES | Cisco Technology, Inc. | ZARKA, DAVID PETER | 2449 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18786221 | SELECTIVE RESPECT FOR OVERLAPPING BASIC SERVICE SET COORDINATED RESTRICTED TARGET WAKE TIME SCHEDULES | Cisco Technology, Inc. | CERLANEK, ADAM JOEL | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 | |
| 18767745 | Throughput Predictor And Flow Load Balancer | Cisco Technology, Inc. | MAPA, MICHAEL Y | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 | |
| 18739576 | INTELLIGENT SYSTEM TO AUTONOMOUSLY CORRELATE BGP CHANGES AND IMPACTS IN A COMPUTER NETWORK | Cisco Technology, Inc. | WINDER, PATRICE L | 2453 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18644328 | LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS (LLMS) CACHING VIA DOUBLE VERIFICATION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | TRAN, TAN H | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 | |
| 18641611 | DYNAMIC SIMILARITY THRESHOLD SELECTION FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE CACHES | Cisco Technology, Inc. | PYO, MONICA M | 2161 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18642483 | Make-Before-Break Roaming | Cisco Technology, Inc. | KENNEDY, LESA M | 2458 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18627578 | GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-ASSISTED TELEMETRY INSTRUMENTATION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | SHIU, HO T | 2443 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18606201 | VALIDATING REUSABLE CODE FOR A LANGUAGE MODEL-BASED NETWORK AGENT | Cisco Technology, Inc. | TRAN, TRAVIS VIET | 2191 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18603956 | CELL EDGE PREDICTOR FOR OPTIMIZED ROAMING | Cisco Technology, Inc. | JAIN, ANKUR | 2646 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18598148 | DOMAIN ADAPTATION THROUGH MODEL PRUNING | Cisco Technology, Inc. | FUJITA, KATRINA R | 2672 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18583495 | COORDINATED FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | ZHAO, YONGHONG | 2472 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
| 18435688 | PHYSICAL SPACE RECOMMENDATIONS TO OPTIMIZE USER APPLICATION QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE IN OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | DUONG, OANH | 2441 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | AI Ready | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18455871 | MULTIMODAL WIRELESS AND DETERMINISTIC MODE OPERATION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | KAYAL, DAVID M | 2464 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 18310633 | QUALITY OF SERVICE (QoS) TRANSLATION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | CHAU, PETER P | 2476 | §112 | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
| 18308299 | ENHANCED MULTI-LINK OPERATION (MLO) FOR CLIENT DISTRESS OPERATION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | JEONG, MOO RYONG | 2418 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 17932066 | TIME SENSITIVE NETWORK (TSN) QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS) MANAGEMENT | Cisco Technology, Inc. | FAYED, RASHA K | 2413 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Sep 14, 2022 |
| 17742160 | DEVICE-FREE IN-ZONE OBJECT MOVEMENT DETECTION USING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | KHAN, MEHMOOD B | 2419 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 11, 2022 |
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