Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Egnyte Inc. currently manages 8 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These 8 actions are assigned to 8 distinct examiners, indicating that each matter is being reviewed by a different individual. The prosecution is occurring across 7 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's technology is widely distributed among many specialized examination groups.
PHAM, MICHAEL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. This count of 1 is shared by the other 7 distinct examiners involved in the 8 pending office actions. The presence of 7 distinct art units for 8 pending office actions indicates a very high degree of technical variety relative to the size of the pending portfolio. Practitioners must navigate the specific requirements of 8 different examiners and 7 different art units within the Computing & Software sector. This distribution requires a flexible approach to prosecution across multiple technical teams to ensure consistent outcomes.
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.
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.
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 only | 1 (12%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| §102 only | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, MICHAEL | 1 | 80.0% | +22.0% |
| CAREY, FORREST L | 1 | 56.5% | +54.8% |
| ALMANI, MOHSEN | 1 | 50.1% | +21.9% |
| GURMU, MULUEMEBET | 1 | 80.2% | +17.5% |
| LEE, MICHAEL M | 1 | 84.2% | +37.5% |
| PARK, GRACE A | 1 | 76.3% | +17.6% |
| HTAY, LIN LIN M | 1 | 71.4% | +24.6% |
| IQBAL, MUSTAFA | 1 | 46.7% | +25.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18802630 | Hybrid Approach To Data Governance | LEE, MICHAEL M | 99d overdue |
| 19214378 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BLOCKCHAIN-BASED CLOUD STORAGE DOCUMENT INTEGRITY | PHAM, MICHAEL | 7d |
| 18980853 | Flexible Permission Management Framework For Cloud Attached File Systems | GURMU, MULUEMEBET | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18213454 | System And Method For Allocating Digital Data According To Valu of Digital Content | IQBAL, MUSTAFA | 17d overdue |
| 18381037 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING OPTIMIZATION OF FILE UPLOAD OPERATIONS VIA TRANSACTION TRANSFORMATION | HTAY, LIN LIN M | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18802630 | Hybrid Approach To Data Governance | LEE, MICHAEL M | 99d overdue |
| 18213454 | System And Method For Allocating Digital Data According To Valu of Digital Content | IQBAL, MUSTAFA | 17d overdue |
| 19214378 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BLOCKCHAIN-BASED CLOUD STORAGE DOCUMENT INTEGRITY | PHAM, MICHAEL | 7d |
| 19027678 | Systems and Methods for Uploading Streamed Objects to a Cloud Storage System | CAREY, FORREST L | — |
| 19026230 | System And Method For Synchronizing File Systems With Large Namespaces | ALMANI, MOHSEN | — |
| 18980853 | Flexible Permission Management Framework For Cloud Attached File Systems | GURMU, MULUEMEBET | — |
| 18738830 | System and Method for Sensitive Content Analysis Prioritization Based on File Metadata | PARK, GRACE A | — |
| 18381037 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING OPTIMIZATION OF FILE UPLOAD OPERATIONS VIA TRANSACTION TRANSFORMATION | HTAY, LIN LIN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2153 | 2 |
| 2491 | 1 |
| 2159 | 1 |
| 2163 | 1 |
| 2436 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19214378 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BLOCKCHAIN-BASED CLOUD STORAGE DOCUMENT INTEGRITY | PHAM, MICHAEL | 2153 | §102Other | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | May 21, 2025 |
| 19027678 | Systems and Methods for Uploading Streamed Objects to a Cloud Storage System | CAREY, FORREST L | 2491 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19026230 | System And Method For Synchronizing File Systems With Large Namespaces | ALMANI, MOHSEN | 2159 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18980853 | Flexible Permission Management Framework For Cloud Attached File Systems | GURMU, MULUEMEBET | 2163 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18802630 | Hybrid Approach To Data Governance | LEE, MICHAEL M | 2436 | §102Other | Final Rejection | 99d overdue | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18738830 | System and Method for Sensitive Content Analysis Prioritization Based on File Metadata | PARK, GRACE A | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18381037 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING OPTIMIZATION OF FILE UPLOAD OPERATIONS VIA TRANSACTION TRANSFORMATION | HTAY, LIN LIN M | 2153 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2023 |
| 18213454 | System And Method For Allocating Digital Data According To Valu of Digital Content | IQBAL, MUSTAFA | 3625 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
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