Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Darktrace Holdings Limited

15 pending office actions • 9 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)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.

7
Hard (47%)
7
Medium (47%)
1
Easy (7%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (20%)
§103 only3 (20%)
§102 only2 (13%)
Double-patenting only1 (7%)
Double-patenting + other2 (13%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (27%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
11
Information Tech
73% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
4
Business / Other
27% 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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
AHMED, MAHABUB S 1 85.5% +8.2%
BAZNA, JUDY 1 67.9% +27.1%
LEE, MICHAEL M 1 83.9% +41.0%
MCNALLY, MICHAEL S 1 89.8% +8.7%
WANG, HARRIS C 1 69.8% +20.0%
LE, THANH T 1 83.3% +32.0%
TAYLOR, SAKINAH W 1 86.5% +23.6%
PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J 1 80.3% +17.1%
ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD 1 74.7% +31.9%
LANE, JOSEPH MAXEN 1

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
18900360 ANOMALY ALERT SYSTEM FOR CYBER THREAT DETECTION PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J 28d overdue
19207158 INTELLIGENT ADVERSARY SIMULATOR AHMED, MAHABUB S
19025773 INCORPORATING SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE DATA INTO A CYBER THREAT DEFENSE SYSTEM TAYLOR, SAKINAH W

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18207058 ANALYSES AND AGGREGATION OF DOMAIN BEHAVIOR FOR EMAIL THREAT DETECTION BY A CYBER SECURITY SYSTEM CELANI, NICHOLAS P 34d
19058593 CYBER SECURITY SYSTEM FOR EMAIL MESSAGE PROTECTION BAZNA, JUDY
19058620 PRE-DEPLOYMENT DETECTION AND RESPONSE LEE, MICHAEL M
19058612 AUGMENTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED INVESTIGATIONS OF POTENTIAL CYBER INCIDENTS, AND USE THEREOF MCNALLY, MICHAEL S
19058587 BASE MACHINE LEARNING MODEL PAIRED WITH MULTIPLE LOW RANKING ADAPTION ATTACHMENTS FOR CYBER SECURITY PURPOSES WANG, HARRIS C
19034288 DETECTION AND DEOBFUSCATION OF BARCODES SUCH AS QR CODES LE, THANH T
18400618 CYBER SECURITY SYSTEM FOR CLOUD ENVIRONMENT ANALYTICS LANE, JOSEPH MAXEN

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18900360 ANOMALY ALERT SYSTEM FOR CYBER THREAT DETECTION PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J 28d overdue
19058593 CYBER SECURITY SYSTEM FOR EMAIL MESSAGE PROTECTION BAZNA, JUDY
19058620 PRE-DEPLOYMENT DETECTION AND RESPONSE LEE, MICHAEL M
19058587 BASE MACHINE LEARNING MODEL PAIRED WITH MULTIPLE LOW RANKING ADAPTION ATTACHMENTS FOR CYBER SECURITY PURPOSES WANG, HARRIS C
19034288 DETECTION AND DEOBFUSCATION OF BARCODES SUCH AS QR CODES LE, THANH T
19025773 INCORPORATING SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE DATA INTO A CYBER THREAT DEFENSE SYSTEM TAYLOR, SAKINAH W
18618962 MULTI-STAGE ANOMALY DETECTION FOR PROCESS CHAINS IN MULTI-HOST ENVIRONMENTS ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2431 2
2439 2
2492 2
4100 1
2407 1
2409 1
2196 1
2443 1
2449 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19207158 INTELLIGENT ADVERSARY SIMULATOR AHMED, MAHABUB S DP Non-Final OA Pending May 13, 2025
19058593 CYBER SECURITY SYSTEM FOR EMAIL MESSAGE PROTECTION BAZNA, JUDY §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 20, 2025
19058620 PRE-DEPLOYMENT DETECTION AND RESPONSE LEE, MICHAEL M §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 20, 2025
19058612 AUGMENTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED INVESTIGATIONS OF POTENTIAL CYBER INCIDENTS, AND USE THEREOF MCNALLY, MICHAEL S 2431 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 20, 2025
19058587 BASE MACHINE LEARNING MODEL PAIRED WITH MULTIPLE LOW RANKING ADAPTION ATTACHMENTS FOR CYBER SECURITY PURPOSES WANG, HARRIS C 2439 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 20, 2025
19034288 DETECTION AND DEOBFUSCATION OF BARCODES SUCH AS QR CODES LE, THANH T 4100 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 22, 2025
19025773 INCORPORATING SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE DATA INTO A CYBER THREAT DEFENSE SYSTEM TAYLOR, SAKINAH W 2407 §102Other Non-Final OA Pending Jan 16, 2025
18900360 ANOMALY ALERT SYSTEM FOR CYBER THREAT DETECTION PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J 2409 §103DP Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2024
18618962 MULTI-STAGE ANOMALY DETECTION FOR PROCESS CHAINS IN MULTI-HOST ENVIRONMENTS ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD 2431 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 27, 2024
18400618 CYBER SECURITY SYSTEM FOR CLOUD ENVIRONMENT ANALYTICS LANE, JOSEPH MAXEN 2196 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 29, 2023
18373157 METHOD FOR SHARING CYBERSECURITY THREAT ANALYSIS AND DEFENSIVE MEASURES AMONGST A COMMUNITY BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J 2439 §103Other Final Rejection 70d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2023
18219552 MALICIOUS SITE DETECTION FOR A CYBER THREAT RESPONSE SYSTEM CHAO, MICHAEL W 2492 §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 07, 2023
18207061 Unifying of the network device entity and the user entity for better cyber security modeling along with ingesting firewall rules to determine pathways through a network GREENE, JOSEPH L 2443 §103 Non-Final OA 154d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2023
18207058 ANALYSES AND AGGREGATION OF DOMAIN BEHAVIOR FOR EMAIL THREAT DETECTION BY A CYBER SECURITY SYSTEM CELANI, NICHOLAS P 2449 §103§112 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jun 07, 2023
17859854 CYBER SECURITY SANDBOX ENVIRONMENT DAVIS, ZACHARY A 2492 §102 Final Rejection Pending Jul 07, 2022

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