Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cylance Inc. operates in the Computing & Software technology area. The portfolio currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's software technologies are being reviewed in different specialized contexts. This distribution suggests that the company's intellectual property is being evaluated by multiple specialized groups within the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This accounts for a portion of the 2 pending office actions currently active. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's technology is being evaluated under different specialized criteria. For practitioners, this requires a prosecution strategy that can address the specific requirements of each art unit while maintaining consistency across the portfolio's active applications.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S | 1 | 67.0% | +25.7% |
| LOUIE, HOWARD H | 1 | 81.9% | +59.7% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18589806 | GENERATING NATURAL LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION OF A SOFTWARE CODE | LOUIE, HOWARD H | 12d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18605017 | MACHINE LEARNING MODELS THAT GENERATE DIVERSE EMBEDDED VECTORS, ACCORDING TO AN IMPLEMENTATION | ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18589806 | GENERATING NATURAL LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION OF A SOFTWARE CODE | LOUIE, HOWARD H | 12d |
| 18605017 | MACHINE LEARNING MODELS THAT GENERATE DIVERSE EMBEDDED VECTORS, ACCORDING TO AN IMPLEMENTATION | ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2154 | 1 |
| 2494 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18605017 | MACHINE LEARNING MODELS THAT GENERATE DIVERSE EMBEDDED VECTORS, ACCORDING TO AN IMPLEMENTATION | ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S | 2154 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18589806 | GENERATING NATURAL LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION OF A SOFTWARE CODE | LOUIE, HOWARD H | 2494 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCylance Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Mohammad S Rostami has the most, with 1 of Cylance Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
