Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

BMC Software, Inc.

8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due later (2)

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 (25%)
6
Medium (75%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (25%)
§103 only4 (50%)
§102 only2 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
7
Information Tech
88% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
12% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SYED, FARHAN M 1 75.0% +23.3%
SONG, HOSUK 1 94.8% +2.7%
MITCHELL, JASON D 1 55.0% +31.8%
ALLEN, NICHOLAS E 1 76.5% +15.6%
BYCER, ERIC J 1 66.5% +43.2%
AYERS, MICHAEL W 1 70.2% +53.7%
NAULT, VICTOR ADELARD 1 57.1% +85.7%
WAESCO, JOSEPH M 1 47.1% +42.3%

Quick Wins (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18588845 DYNAMIC DISTRIBUTED DATA ACCESS CONTROL SONG, HOSUK 62d

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
17452998 AUTOMATED SKILL DISCOVERY, SKILL LEVEL COMPUTATION, AND INTELLIGENT MATCHING USING GENERATED HIERARCHICAL SKILL PATHS WAESCO, JOSEPH M 17d overdue
17809486 RUNTIME PREDICTION FOR JOB MANAGEMENT AYERS, MICHAEL W 4d overdue

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18147937 OPTIMAL REORGANIZATION OF A DATABASE ALLEN, NICHOLAS E 78d overdue
18345878 OPTIMIZATION OF ATTRIBUTE ACCESS IN PROGRAMMING FUNCTIONS MITCHELL, JASON D 23d overdue
18743641 LOG RECOVERY FOR INTER-TABLESPACE TABLE MIGRATION SYED, FARHAN M 19d overdue
17452998 AUTOMATED SKILL DISCOVERY, SKILL LEVEL COMPUTATION, AND INTELLIGENT MATCHING USING GENERATED HIERARCHICAL SKILL PATHS WAESCO, JOSEPH M 17d overdue
17809486 RUNTIME PREDICTION FOR JOB MANAGEMENT AYERS, MICHAEL W 4d overdue
17657625 CAUSAL EVENT PREDICTION FOR EVENTS NAULT, VICTOR ADELARD 26d
17937254 ANOMALY DETECTION USING HASH SIGNATURE GENERATION FOR MODEL-BASED SCORING BYCER, ERIC J 72d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2161 1
2435 1
2199 1
2154 1
2141 1
2195 1
2124 1
3625 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18743641 LOG RECOVERY FOR INTER-TABLESPACE TABLE MIGRATION SYED, FARHAN M 2161 §102 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2024
18588845 DYNAMIC DISTRIBUTED DATA ACCESS CONTROL SONG, HOSUK 2435 §102 Final Rejection 62d Pending Feb 27, 2024
18345878 OPTIMIZATION OF ATTRIBUTE ACCESS IN PROGRAMMING FUNCTIONS MITCHELL, JASON D 2199 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
18147937 OPTIMAL REORGANIZATION OF A DATABASE ALLEN, NICHOLAS E 2154 §103 Final Rejection 78d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2022
17937254 ANOMALY DETECTION USING HASH SIGNATURE GENERATION FOR MODEL-BASED SCORING BYCER, ERIC J 2141 §103 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Sep 30, 2022
17809486 RUNTIME PREDICTION FOR JOB MANAGEMENT AYERS, MICHAEL W 2195 §101 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2022
17657625 CAUSAL EVENT PREDICTION FOR EVENTS NAULT, VICTOR ADELARD 2124 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Mar 31, 2022
17452998 AUTOMATED SKILL DISCOVERY, SKILL LEVEL COMPUTATION, AND INTELLIGENT MATCHING USING GENERATED HIERARCHICAL SKILL PATHS WAESCO, JOSEPH M 3625 §101 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Oct 31, 2021

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