Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Bright Data Ltd.

9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
1
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
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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 (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (67%)
0
Easy (0%)
3
Unknown (33%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (67%)
No statute on record3 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
8
Information Tech
89% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
11% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KHAN, AFTAB N 4 80.3% +49.7%
YE, ZI 1 85.0% +18.4%
WON, MICHAEL YOUNG 1 79.8% +29.1%
ROSWELL, MICHAEL 1 64.8% +23.6%
ALRIYASHI, ABDULKADER MOHAMED 1 67.3% +3.3%
ELFERVIG, TAYLOR A 1 62.2% +38.0%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18754980 System and Method for Improving Content Fetching by Selecting Tunnel Devices KHAN, AFTAB N 24d overdue
18624542 System and Method for Improving Content Fetching by Selecting Tunnel Devices KHAN, AFTAB N 1d overdue
18754944 System and Method for Improving Content Fetching by Selecting Tunnel Devices KHAN, AFTAB N 16d

Interview Candidates (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18675389 System and Method for Streaming Content from Multiple Servers WON, MICHAEL YOUNG 26d overdue
18754980 System and Method for Improving Content Fetching by Selecting Tunnel Devices KHAN, AFTAB N 24d overdue
18196091 System and Method for Improving Internet Communication by Using Intermediate Nodes ELFERVIG, TAYLOR A 18d overdue
18657394 System and method for improving internet communication by using intermediate nodes ROSWELL, MICHAEL 8d overdue
18624542 System and Method for Improving Content Fetching by Selecting Tunnel Devices KHAN, AFTAB N 1d overdue
18754944 System and Method for Improving Content Fetching by Selecting Tunnel Devices KHAN, AFTAB N 16d
18961825 System and Method for Improving Internet Communication by Using Intermediate Nodes YE, ZI 27d
18624527 System and Method for Improving Content Fetching by Selecting Tunnel Devices KHAN, AFTAB N 41d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2454 4
2455 1
2443 1
3992 1
2447 1
2445 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18961825 System and Method for Improving Internet Communication by Using Intermediate Nodes YE, ZI 2455 Other Non-Final OA 27d Pending Nov 27, 2024
18754980 System and Method for Improving Content Fetching by Selecting Tunnel Devices KHAN, AFTAB N 2454 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Jun 26, 2024
18754944 System and Method for Improving Content Fetching by Selecting Tunnel Devices KHAN, AFTAB N 2454 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Jun 26, 2024
18675389 System and Method for Streaming Content from Multiple Servers WON, MICHAEL YOUNG 2443 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending May 28, 2024
18657394 System and method for improving internet communication by using intermediate nodes ROSWELL, MICHAEL 3992 Other Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending May 07, 2024
18624542 System and Method for Improving Content Fetching by Selecting Tunnel Devices KHAN, AFTAB N 2454 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Apr 02, 2024
18624527 System and Method for Improving Content Fetching by Selecting Tunnel Devices KHAN, AFTAB N 2454 Other Final Rejection 41d Pending Apr 02, 2024
18211338 Emulating Web Browser in a Dedicated Intermediary Box ALRIYASHI, ABDULKADER MOHAMED 2447 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 19, 2023
18196091 System and Method for Improving Internet Communication by Using Intermediate Nodes ELFERVIG, TAYLOR A 2445 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending May 11, 2023

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