Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 48 patents granted in the last 365 days
Commvault Systems Inc. currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 5 distinct examiners, meaning the workload is spread among multiple individuals. All of these matters are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specialized focus for the company's current patenting activities. Concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows a practitioner to focus on the specific examination trends and preferences of that unit's leadership.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is TALUKDAR, ARVIND, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents the maximum workload assigned to any individual examiner within the current 5 pending actions. Because 5 distinct examiners are involved, the prosecution workload is not concentrated under a single person. The distribution across 1 distinct art unit implies that prosecution strategies may remain consistent across the pending applications, as they are all subject to the same overarching art unit policies. The workload of 1 pending office action for the busiest examiner indicates a fragmented assignment of cases.
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 (17%) |
| §103 only | 4 (67%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TALUKDAR, ARVIND | 1 | 80.6% | +4.2% |
| CATTUNGAL, DEREENA T | 1 | 80.4% | +29.4% |
| LIN, AMIE CHINYU | 1 | 84.4% | +30.9% |
| BLUST, JASON W | 1 | 79.3% | +14.9% |
| CAO, DIEM K | 1 | 80.5% | +18.8% |
| GMAHL, NAVNEET K | 1 | 57.5% | +38.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19227367 | PROTECTION OF VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD CONFIGURATIONS | TALUKDAR, ARVIND | — |
| 19207599 | DETECTING RANSOMWARE IN MONITORED DATA | CATTUNGAL, DEREENA T | — |
| 18646947 | DYNAMIC APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) SERVICE FOR A DATA STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | CAO, DIEM K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19088966 | ENTROPY-BASED RANSOMWARE DETECTION | LIN, AMIE CHINYU | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19207599 | DETECTING RANSOMWARE IN MONITORED DATA | CATTUNGAL, DEREENA T | — |
| 19088966 | ENTROPY-BASED RANSOMWARE DETECTION | LIN, AMIE CHINYU | — |
| 18801675 | VIRTUAL MACHINE CHANGE BLOCK TRACKING | BLUST, JASON W | — |
| 18646947 | DYNAMIC APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) SERVICE FOR A DATA STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | CAO, DIEM K | — |
| 18582910 | SCALABLE JOB MANAGER SERVICE FOR DATA MANAGEMENT-AS-A-SERVICE (DMaaS) | GMAHL, NAVNEET K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2132 | 1 |
| 2166 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19227367 | PROTECTION OF VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD CONFIGURATIONS | TALUKDAR, ARVIND | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19207599 | DETECTING RANSOMWARE IN MONITORED DATA | CATTUNGAL, DEREENA T | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19088966 | ENTROPY-BASED RANSOMWARE DETECTION | LIN, AMIE CHINYU | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 18801675 | VIRTUAL MACHINE CHANGE BLOCK TRACKING | BLUST, JASON W | 2132 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18646947 | DYNAMIC APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) SERVICE FOR A DATA STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | CAO, DIEM K | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18582910 | SCALABLE JOB MANAGER SERVICE FOR DATA MANAGEMENT-AS-A-SERVICE (DMaaS) | GMAHL, NAVNEET K | 2166 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
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