Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Barracuda Networks Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These filings are handled by 2 distinct examiners, indicating a lack of concentration in the current prosecution personnel. This approach ensures that the portfolio's progress is not reliant on a specific examiner's discretion and allows the company to receive feedback from multiple officials with different technical perspectives on its software innovations. Such a distributed strategy can lead to a more robust and well-rounded patent portfolio by incorporating a variety of examiner insights.
The company is active in distinct art units, reflecting a variety of technical focuses within its software portfolio. KIM, DAVID, is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Each matter will likely follow an independent path toward allowance or rejection, requiring the company to maintain flexible prosecution strategies. Practitioners should monitor the progress of each case to identify any emerging patterns in examiner feedback that could impact the company's broader intellectual property strategy and ensure that all technical arguments remain consistent across the portfolio.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, DAVID | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| HAJIABBASI, AMIR MAHDI | 1 | 87.9% | +7.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18534054 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CYBERSECURITY RISK LEVEL OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES | HAJIABBASI, AMIR MAHDI | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18425932 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING EFFICIENCY IN MODEL CORRECTION IN SUPERVISED SYSTEMS | KIM, DAVID | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2141 | 1 |
| 2407 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18425932 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING EFFICIENCY IN MODEL CORRECTION IN SUPERVISED SYSTEMS | KIM, DAVID | 2141 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18534054 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CYBERSECURITY RISK LEVEL OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES | HAJIABBASI, AMIR MAHDI | 2407 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBarracuda Networks Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
David Kim has the most, with 1 of Barracuda Networks Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
