Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

BMC Software Inc.

3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
0
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
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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.

2
Hard (67%)
1
Medium (33%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (33%)
§101 + other1 (33%)
§103 only1 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
67% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
33% 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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
THOMPSON, ALMA BENNETT 1
MANOSKEY, JOSEPH D 1 93.3% -9.4%
BYCER, ERIC J 1 66.7% +42.7%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17937254 ANOMALY DETECTION USING HASH SIGNATURE GENERATION FOR MODEL-BASED SCORING BYCER, ERIC J 72d
18194190 EFFICIENT TRAINING OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR LOG RECORD ANALYSIS MANOSKEY, JOSEPH D

Interview Candidates (1)

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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17937254 ANOMALY DETECTION USING HASH SIGNATURE GENERATION FOR MODEL-BASED SCORING BYCER, ERIC J 72d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2113 1
2141 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18511550 PREDICTING CAUSAL IMPACT FROM SCENARIOS THOMPSON, ALMA BENNETT §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 16, 2023
18194190 EFFICIENT TRAINING OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR LOG RECORD ANALYSIS MANOSKEY, JOSEPH D 2113 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 31, 2023
17937254 ANOMALY DETECTION USING HASH SIGNATURE GENERATION FOR MODEL-BASED SCORING BYCER, ERIC J 2141 §101§103 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Sep 30, 2022

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