Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Egnyte Inc.

8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 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 (12%)
5
Medium (62%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (25%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (12%)
§103 only4 (50%)
§102 only1 (12%)
No statute on record2 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
6
Information Tech
75% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
25% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
IQBAL, MUSTAFA 2 46.4% +27.6%
PHAM, MICHAEL 1 79.8% +22.4%
RUIZ, ANGELICA 1 83.0% +14.7%
PENG, HUAWEN A 1 82.3% +20.2%
BOUTAH, ALINA A 1 89.8% +9.2%
LEE, MICHAEL M 1 83.5% +43.2%
ALMANI, MOHSEN 1 50.1% +22.1%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18802630 Hybrid Approach To Data Governance LEE, MICHAEL M 99d overdue
18930142 Systems and Methods for Facilitating Access to Private Files Using a Cloud Storage System BOUTAH, ALINA A 24d overdue

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
18213454 System And Method For Allocating Digital Data According To Valu of Digital Content IQBAL, MUSTAFA 17d overdue

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
18802630 Hybrid Approach To Data Governance LEE, MICHAEL M 99d overdue
17480891 System And Method For Synchronizing File Systems With Large Namespaces ALMANI, MOHSEN 88d overdue
18213454 System And Method For Allocating Digital Data According To Valu of Digital Content IQBAL, MUSTAFA 17d overdue
19199700 System And Method Of Presenting A Hybrid Cloud Cache As A File System RUIZ, ANGELICA 5d overdue
19029342 System And Method For Allocating Digital Data According To Value Of Digital Content IQBAL, MUSTAFA 1d overdue
19214378 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BLOCKCHAIN-BASED CLOUD STORAGE DOCUMENT INTEGRITY PHAM, MICHAEL 7d
19048014 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING IMPLICIT TRANSACTIONS IN A HYBRID CLOUD CACHE PENG, HUAWEN A 19d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3625 2
2153 1
2154 1
2169 1
2458 1
2436 1
2159 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19214378 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BLOCKCHAIN-BASED CLOUD STORAGE DOCUMENT INTEGRITY PHAM, MICHAEL 2153 §102 Non-Final OA 7d Pending May 21, 2025
19199700 System And Method Of Presenting A Hybrid Cloud Cache As A File System RUIZ, ANGELICA 2154 Other Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending May 06, 2025
19048014 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING IMPLICIT TRANSACTIONS IN A HYBRID CLOUD CACHE PENG, HUAWEN A 2169 Other Final Rejection 19d Pending Feb 07, 2025
19029342 System And Method For Allocating Digital Data According To Value Of Digital Content IQBAL, MUSTAFA 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2025
18930142 Systems and Methods for Facilitating Access to Private Files Using a Cloud Storage System BOUTAH, ALINA A 2458 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Oct 29, 2024
18802630 Hybrid Approach To Data Governance LEE, MICHAEL M 2436 §103 Non-Final OA 99d overdue Pending Aug 13, 2024
18213454 System And Method For Allocating Digital Data According To Valu of Digital Content IQBAL, MUSTAFA 3625 §101 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2023
17480891 System And Method For Synchronizing File Systems With Large Namespaces ALMANI, MOHSEN 2159 §103 Final Rejection 88d overdue Pending Sep 21, 2021

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