Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cloudflare Inc. maintains 3 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. Each of these 3 actions is assigned to a different examiner, totaling 3 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. This 1 to 1 ratio between actions, examiners, and art units suggests a diversified technical pipeline. TAYLOR, JOSHUA D is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Because each matter is handled by a different person in a different art unit, the company must navigate 3 unique sets of procedural and technical standards.
The distribution across 3 distinct art units indicates that the company's innovations in Networking & Security span several specialized technical fields. Practitioners should note that with 3 distinct examiners involved, there is no overlap in examiner relationships for the current pending matters. This lack of concentration means that the outcome of one action is unlikely to influence the others. The reliance on 1 pending action per examiner, including the one assigned to TAYLOR, JOSHUA D, suggests that the company's prosecution risk is evenly spread across its active USPTO filings. Successful prosecution will require a tailored approach for each of the 3 distinct art units involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAYLOR, JOSHUA D | 1 | 59.2% | +30.8% |
| BLAIR, DOUGLAS B | 1 | 72.5% | +7.9% |
| BINCZAK, BRANDON MICHAEL | 1 | 39.1% | +33.4% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18898515 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE(S) IN A DISTRIBUTED CLOUD COMPUTING NETWORK | TAYLOR, JOSHUA D | — |
| 18433010 | SELECTIVE TRAFFIC PROCESSING IN A DISTRIBUTED CLOUD COMPUTING NETWORK | BLAIR, DOUGLAS B | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18898515 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE(S) IN A DISTRIBUTED CLOUD COMPUTING NETWORK | TAYLOR, JOSHUA D | — |
| 18190582 | POLICY-BASED BLOCKING OF VULNERABLE SOFTWARE INSTALLATIONS USING A PROXY | BINCZAK, BRANDON MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2441 | 1 |
| 2454 | 1 |
| 2437 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18898515 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE(S) IN A DISTRIBUTED CLOUD COMPUTING NETWORK | TAYLOR, JOSHUA D | 2441 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18433010 | SELECTIVE TRAFFIC PROCESSING IN A DISTRIBUTED CLOUD COMPUTING NETWORK | BLAIR, DOUGLAS B | 2454 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18190582 | POLICY-BASED BLOCKING OF VULNERABLE SOFTWARE INSTALLATIONS USING A PROXY | BINCZAK, BRANDON MICHAEL | 2437 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
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