Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Elasticsearch B V currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and multiple art units. This distribution indicates a broad spread of examination across the office's technical divisions, which may result in varying prosecution timelines depending on the specific division's current backlog and examiner habits.
Sidney Li is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. The parity between the number of active matters and the examiners suggests that no single examiner is managing a concentrated volume of the company's active prosecution workload. For practitioners, this means that the overall success of the portfolio is not overly dependent on the tendencies of a single individual, but rather distributed across multiple points of review within the Computing & Software sector.
The presence of distinct art units further suggests that the company's technical disclosures are being categorized into different sub-specialties. This can be advantageous as it prevents a single bottleneck in one specific division from stalling the entire portfolio. However, it also requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to the different examination styles prevalent across these various units. Each of the pending actions represents a unique path toward allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, SIDNEY | 1 | 79.3% | +6.6% |
| ALSHOROOGI, YAZAN ABDELNASER | 1 | — | — |
| WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M | 1 | 53.9% | +25.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19002228 | MULTI-LEVEL CACHE SYSTEM FOR REDUCTION OF STORAGE COSTS | LI, SIDNEY | 22d |
| 18434209 | RESOURCE-SENSITIVE SHARD ALLOCATION AND AUTO-SCALING | ALSHOROOGI, YAZAN ABDELNASER | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17553465 | Peer Recovery From Remote Storage | WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M | 10d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2137 | 1 |
| 2198 | 1 |
| 2156 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19002228 | MULTI-LEVEL CACHE SYSTEM FOR REDUCTION OF STORAGE COSTS | LI, SIDNEY | 2137 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18434209 | RESOURCE-SENSITIVE SHARD ALLOCATION AND AUTO-SCALING | ALSHOROOGI, YAZAN ABDELNASER | 2198 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 17553465 | Peer Recovery From Remote Storage | WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M | 2156 | §103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Dec 16, 2021 |
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