Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

AO Kaspersky Lab

7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

6
Hard (86%)
1
Medium (14%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (43%)
§103 only1 (14%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (43%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

2
Life Sciences
29% of docket
4
Information Tech
57% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
14% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TSAI, JAMES T 2 62.5% +56.9%
WADE-WRIGHT, SHAQUEAL D 1 85.0% +18.2%
RAHMAN, SM AZIZUR 1 88.4% +18.0%
ALI, AFAQ 1 89.4% +11.7%
SAVENKOV, VADIM 1 61.1% +20.8%
BENGZON, GREG C 1 58.1% +6.3%

Hard Cases (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18619396 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING OBJECTS TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF MALICIOUS ACTIVITY ALI, AFAQ 14d
19098047 SYSTEM AND METHOD MACHINE LEARNING-ASSISTED DETECTION OF HARMFUL SCRIPTS WADE-WRIGHT, SHAQUEAL D
19077100 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF BLOCKING MALICIOUS ACTIVITY OF LEGITIMATE DRIVERS RAHMAN, SM AZIZUR
18361999 METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING PATTERNS AND ANOMALIES IN THE FLOW OF EVENTS FROM A CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEM TSAI, JAMES T
18361976 SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING PATTERNS AND ANOMALIES IN THE FLOW OF EVENTS FROM A CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEM TSAI, JAMES T
18157861 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING VULNERABILITIES IN THE OPERATING SYSTEM BASED ON PROCESS AND THREAD DATA SAVENKOV, VADIM

Interview Candidates (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18619396 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING OBJECTS TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF MALICIOUS ACTIVITY ALI, AFAQ 14d
19098047 SYSTEM AND METHOD MACHINE LEARNING-ASSISTED DETECTION OF HARMFUL SCRIPTS WADE-WRIGHT, SHAQUEAL D
19077100 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF BLOCKING MALICIOUS ACTIVITY OF LEGITIMATE DRIVERS RAHMAN, SM AZIZUR
18361999 METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING PATTERNS AND ANOMALIES IN THE FLOW OF EVENTS FROM A CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEM TSAI, JAMES T
18361976 SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING PATTERNS AND ANOMALIES IN THE FLOW OF EVENTS FROM A CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEM TSAI, JAMES T
18157861 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING VULNERABILITIES IN THE OPERATING SYSTEM BASED ON PROCESS AND THREAD DATA SAVENKOV, VADIM

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2434 2
1754 2
2432 1
2444 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19098047 SYSTEM AND METHOD MACHINE LEARNING-ASSISTED DETECTION OF HARMFUL SCRIPTS WADE-WRIGHT, SHAQUEAL D §101§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 02, 2025
19077100 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF BLOCKING MALICIOUS ACTIVITY OF LEGITIMATE DRIVERS RAHMAN, SM AZIZUR 2434 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 12, 2025
18619396 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING OBJECTS TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF MALICIOUS ACTIVITY ALI, AFAQ 2434 §103§112 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Mar 28, 2024
18361999 METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING PATTERNS AND ANOMALIES IN THE FLOW OF EVENTS FROM A CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEM TSAI, JAMES T 1754 §101§103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Jul 31, 2023
18361976 SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING PATTERNS AND ANOMALIES IN THE FLOW OF EVENTS FROM A CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEM TSAI, JAMES T 1754 §101§103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Jul 31, 2023
18157861 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING VULNERABILITIES IN THE OPERATING SYSTEM BASED ON PROCESS AND THREAD DATA SAVENKOV, VADIM 2432 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jan 23, 2023
17746146 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING AN ISOLATED EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT BENGZON, GREG C 2444 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 17, 2022

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