Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Databricks Inc.

Technology area: Computing & Software

13 pending office actions • 10 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Databricks Inc. has 13 pending office actions in Computing & Software. The matters involve 13 distinct examiners and 10 art units, showing that examiner assignments are fully distributed while several matters share technical-assignment groupings.

ALMANI, MOHSEN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. The listed data does not show examiner concentration, so counsel should emphasize matter-specific analysis and systematic coordination of software claim terminology. Art-unit groupings may help identify recurring technical issues across otherwise separate examination paths.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (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.

5
Hard (38%)
8
Medium (62%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (23%)
§103 only7 (54%)
§102 only1 (8%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (15%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
11
Information Tech
85% of docket
1
Communications
8% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
8% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ALMANI, MOHSEN 1 50.1% +21.9%
GADALLA, HANY S 1 72.8% +35.6%
SHAH, VAISHALI 1 57.4% +52.9%
ABSHER, LUCAS DONALD 1 — —
ONAT, UMUT 1 79.7% +28.7%
ALLEN, NICHOLAS E 1 75.6% +14.6%
VAZ, JANICE EZVI 1 76.3% +20.3%
BOYCE, ANDRE D 1 36.8% +18.9%
FITCH, GRANT FREDERICK 1 — —
RHO, YONG DOO 1 — —

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18612603 MECHANISM FOR AUTOMATED DETERMINATION AND EXCHANGE OF TRUST CREDENTIALS FOR COMPUTATIONAL DECISION SYSTEMS BOYCE, ANDRE D 31d overdue
19072814 Managed Metastore GADALLA, HANY S —
18745847 STRUCTURED CLUSTER EXECUTION FOR DATA STREAMS ALLEN, NICHOLAS E —
18610072 TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING TRANSFORMER ARCHITECTURES WITH HYBRID MOVING AVERAGE FITCH, GRANT FREDERICK —
18425893 BATCH SELECTION FOR TRAINING MACHINE-LEARNED LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS RHO, YONG DOO —

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
18612603 MECHANISM FOR AUTOMATED DETERMINATION AND EXCHANGE OF TRUST CREDENTIALS FOR COMPUTATIONAL DECISION SYSTEMS BOYCE, ANDRE D 31d overdue
18653469 GENERATING SYNTHETIC CAPTIONS FOR TRAINING TEXT-TO-IMAGE GENERATIVE MODELS VAZ, JANICE EZVI 4d overdue
19228554 Feature Store with Integrated Tracking ALMANI, MOHSEN —
19072814 Managed Metastore GADALLA, HANY S —
18991864 MODEL DISCOVERY ENGINE FOR MACHINE-LEARNING MODELS DEPLOYED BY DATA PROCESSING SERVICE SHAH, VAISHALI —
18885197 VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT CACHING FOR SERVERLESS WORKLOADS ONAT, UMUT —
18745847 STRUCTURED CLUSTER EXECUTION FOR DATA STREAMS ALLEN, NICHOLAS E —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2194 2
2147 2
2145 2
2159 1
2493 1
2156 1
2154 1
2667 1
3623 1
2124 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19228554 Feature Store with Integrated Tracking ALMANI, MOHSEN 2159 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 04, 2025
19072814 Managed Metastore GADALLA, HANY S 2493 §102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 06, 2025
18991864 MODEL DISCOVERY ENGINE FOR MACHINE-LEARNING MODELS DEPLOYED BY DATA PROCESSING SERVICE SHAH, VAISHALI 2156 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 23, 2024
18885186 SYNCHRONIZING LIBRARY VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS IN A SERVERLESS SETTING ABSHER, LUCAS DONALD 2194 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 13, 2024
18885197 VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT CACHING FOR SERVERLESS WORKLOADS ONAT, UMUT 2194 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 13, 2024
18745847 STRUCTURED CLUSTER EXECUTION FOR DATA STREAMS ALLEN, NICHOLAS E 2154 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 17, 2024
18653469 GENERATING SYNTHETIC CAPTIONS FOR TRAINING TEXT-TO-IMAGE GENERATIVE MODELS VAZ, JANICE EZVI 2667 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending May 02, 2024
18612603 MECHANISM FOR AUTOMATED DETERMINATION AND EXCHANGE OF TRUST CREDENTIALS FOR COMPUTATIONAL DECISION SYSTEMS BOYCE, ANDRE D 3623 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2024
18610072 TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING TRANSFORMER ARCHITECTURES WITH HYBRID MOVING AVERAGE FITCH, GRANT FREDERICK 2124 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 19, 2024
18425893 BATCH SELECTION FOR TRAINING MACHINE-LEARNED LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS RHO, YONG DOO 2147 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 29, 2024
18424774 LEARNING RATE SCHEDULE FOR TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING BASED LANGUAGE MODELS LEE, WILLIAM MICHAEL 2145 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 27, 2024
18414270 TRAINING MACHINE-LEARNED TRANSFORMER ARCHITECTURES BY CLIPPING QUERIES, KEYS, AND VALUES TSAI, JAMES T 2147 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 16, 2024
17587793 OPTIMIZATION OF TUNING FOR MODELS USED FOR MULTIPLE PREDICTION GENERATION TAN, DAVID H 2145 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Jan 28, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Databricks Inc. have?

Databricks Inc. has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 13 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Databricks Inc. applications?

Mohsen Almani has the most, with 1 of Databricks Inc.'s pending office actions.

What technology area are Databricks Inc.'s patent applications in?

Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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