Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Commvault Systems Inc.

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 53 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)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.

1
Hard (20%)
3
Medium (60%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (20%)
§103 only2 (40%)
§102 only1 (20%)
No statute on record1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
5
Information Tech
100% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LE, UYEN T 1 83.9% +9.7%
GUYTON, PHILIP A 1 83.8% +8.2%
DAO, TUAN C. 1 82.1% +15.8%
CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T 1 74.9% +32.6%
LU, KEVIN X 1 74.7% +44.1%

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
18964440 EFFICIENT COLLECTION AND REPORTING OF OPERATION-RELATED METRIC DATA IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT LE, UYEN T 57d

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18765514 DYNAMICALLY PROVISIONING COMPUTING PODS IN A COMPUTING RESOURCE CLUSTER DAO, TUAN C. 22d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18647904 HETEROGENEOUS INDEXING AND LOAD BALANCING OF BACKUP AND INDEXING RESOURCES CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T 120d overdue
18474892 LIVE SYNCHRONIZATION OF VIRTUAL MACHINES ACROSS COMPUTING AND VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORMS INCLUDING IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS LU, KEVIN X 30d overdue
18765514 DYNAMICALLY PROVISIONING COMPUTING PODS IN A COMPUTING RESOURCE CLUSTER DAO, TUAN C. 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2156 1
2113 1
2198 1
2154 1
2199 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18964440 EFFICIENT COLLECTION AND REPORTING OF OPERATION-RELATED METRIC DATA IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT LE, UYEN T 2156 §102 Non-Final OA 57d Pending Nov 30, 2024
18953513 MEDIA AGENT STATE MANAGEMENT BASED ON PERFORMANCE TRENDING ANALYSIS GUYTON, PHILIP A 2113 Other Non-Final OA 12d Pending Nov 20, 2024
18765514 DYNAMICALLY PROVISIONING COMPUTING PODS IN A COMPUTING RESOURCE CLUSTER DAO, TUAN C. 2198 §101 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jul 08, 2024
18647904 HETEROGENEOUS INDEXING AND LOAD BALANCING OF BACKUP AND INDEXING RESOURCES CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T 2154 §103 Final Rejection 120d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2024
18474892 LIVE SYNCHRONIZATION OF VIRTUAL MACHINES ACROSS COMPUTING AND VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORMS INCLUDING IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS LU, KEVIN X 2199 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2023

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