Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Darktrace Holdings Limited

17 pending office actions • 13 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
3
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. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
16
Medium (94%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only15 (88%)
§102 only1 (6%)
No statute on record1 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
17
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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHAO, MICHAEL W 3 70.0% +40.6%
TRAORE, FATOUMATA 1 78.0% +35.7%
POLTORAK, PIOTR 1 74.7% +30.4%
PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J 1 80.4% +16.8%
LIPMAN, JACOB 1 83.4% +13.6%
AHMED, MAHABUB S 1 85.5% +7.8%
WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H 1 89.4% +12.6%
DAILEY, THOMAS J 1 80.8% +15.0%
HARRIS, CHRISTOPHER C 1 76.4% +25.7%
FARAMARZI, GITA 1 52.6% +19.1%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18737534 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR MITIGATION OF CYBER THREATS AND REMEDIATION OR RESTORATION OF FUNCTIONALITY OF A CYBERSECURITY SYSTEM WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H 155d overdue
18678545 INTERACTIVE EXTENSION FOR A CYBERSECURITY APPLIANCE DAILEY, THOMAS J 51d overdue
18767817 CYBER THREAT DEFENSE SYSTEM AND METHOD AHMED, MAHABUB S 23d overdue
18778140 MODIFICATION OF CONNECTIONS LIPMAN, JACOB 8d overdue

Interview Candidates (11)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18737534 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR MITIGATION OF CYBER THREATS AND REMEDIATION OR RESTORATION OF FUNCTIONALITY OF A CYBERSECURITY SYSTEM WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H 155d overdue
18678545 INTERACTIVE EXTENSION FOR A CYBERSECURITY APPLIANCE DAILEY, THOMAS J 51d overdue
18400640 User Importance Metric for Email CHAO, MICHAEL W 32d overdue
18900360 ANOMALY ALERT SYSTEM FOR CYBER THREAT DETECTION PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J 28d overdue
18778140 MODIFICATION OF CONNECTIONS LIPMAN, JACOB 8d overdue
18908203 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED CYBERSECURITY SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AUTOMOTIVE ECOSYSTEMS POLTORAK, PIOTR 7d
18908093 CYBER SECURITY TO DETECT A MALICIOUS FILE TRAORE, FATOUMATA 9d
18603064 ENDPOINT AGENT EXTENSION OF A MACHINE LEARNING CYBER DEFENSE SYSTEM FOR EMAIL CHAO, MICHAEL W 13d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2492 3
2434 3
2436 1
2433 1
2409 1
2458 1
2432 1
2496 1
2438 1
2457 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18908093 CYBER SECURITY TO DETECT A MALICIOUS FILE TRAORE, FATOUMATA 2436 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Oct 07, 2024
18908203 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED CYBERSECURITY SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AUTOMOTIVE ECOSYSTEMS POLTORAK, PIOTR 2433 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Oct 07, 2024
18900360 ANOMALY ALERT SYSTEM FOR CYBER THREAT DETECTION PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J 2409 Other Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2024
18781841 AUTONOMOUS EMAIL REPORT GENERATOR CHAO, MICHAEL W 2492 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Jul 23, 2024
18778140 MODIFICATION OF CONNECTIONS LIPMAN, JACOB 2434 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2024
18767817 CYBER THREAT DEFENSE SYSTEM AND METHOD AHMED, MAHABUB S 2434 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jul 09, 2024
18737534 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR MITIGATION OF CYBER THREATS AND REMEDIATION OR RESTORATION OF FUNCTIONALITY OF A CYBERSECURITY SYSTEM WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H 2434 §102 Non-Final OA 155d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2024
18678545 INTERACTIVE EXTENSION FOR A CYBERSECURITY APPLIANCE DAILEY, THOMAS J 2458 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending May 30, 2024
18678501 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES TO PRE-PROCESS AND ANALYZE DATA TO IMPROVE DETECTION OF CYBER THREATS HARRIS, CHRISTOPHER C 2432 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending May 30, 2024
18678461 CYBER SECURITY TRAINING TOOL THAT USES A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL FARAMARZI, GITA 2496 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 30, 2024
18630896 TREATING DATA FLOWS DIFFERENTLY BASED ON LEVEL OF INTEREST HERZOG, MADHURI R 2438 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Apr 09, 2024
18603064 ENDPOINT AGENT EXTENSION OF A MACHINE LEARNING CYBER DEFENSE SYSTEM FOR EMAIL CHAO, MICHAEL W 2492 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Mar 12, 2024
18414786 A Secure Communication Platform for A Cybersecurity System SURVILLO, OLEG 2457 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2024
18400640 User Importance Metric for Email CHAO, MICHAEL W 2492 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2023
18373157 METHOD FOR SHARING CYBERSECURITY THREAT ANALYSIS AND DEFENSIVE MEASURES AMONGST A COMMUNITY BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J 2439 §103 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2023
18207058 ANALYSES AND AGGREGATION OF DOMAIN BEHAVIOR FOR EMAIL THREAT DETECTION BY A CYBER SECURITY SYSTEM CELANI, NICHOLAS P 2449 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jun 07, 2023
17187385 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR A CYBER-THREAT DEFENSE SYSTEM OLAEGBE, MUDASIRU K 2495 §103 Final Rejection 60d Pending Feb 26, 2021

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