Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Forescout Technologies Inc. has 8 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These 8 pending office actions are being handled by 8 distinct examiners, meaning there is no overlap among the individuals reviewing the company's current applications. The portfolio is active in 8 distinct art units, which indicates that every single pending matter is located in a different technical department.
BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because there are 8 pending office actions and 8 distinct examiners, every examiner, including BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J, is responsible for exactly 1 pending office action. This creates a perfectly decentralized prosecution environment for the company's networking and security innovations.
For the applicant, managing 8 pending office actions across 8 distinct art units requires a very flexible strategy. Since each of the 8 distinct examiners only has 1 pending office action, the company must address 8 different sets of departmental standards and individual preferences. This distribution in the Networking & Security space ensures that the portfolio's progress is not dependent on the decisions of any 1 person or art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 + other | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 6 (75%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 75.6% | +12.6% |
| DONABED, NINOS | 1 | 75.3% | +65.0% |
| RAHIM, MONJUR | 1 | 84.6% | +16.4% |
| IDOWU, OLUGBENGA O | 1 | 71.6% | +19.0% |
| PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J | 1 | 80.2% | +17.3% |
| BINCZAK, BRANDON MICHAEL | 1 | 39.1% | +33.4% |
| PHAM, PHUC H | 1 | 89.5% | +18.0% |
| MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN | 1 | 67.5% | +27.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18476556 | VISIBILITY AND SCANNING OF A VARIETY OF ENTITIES | PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J | 19d |
| 18947802 | BEHAVIOR BASED PROFILING | RAHIM, MONJUR | — |
| 18072238 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF ATTACK PATTERNS FOR THREAT DETECTION | PHAM, PHUC H | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18981249 | DECISION OPTIMIZATION MECHANISM FOR DEVICE CLASSIFICATION | DONABED, NINOS | 14d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18981249 | DECISION OPTIMIZATION MECHANISM FOR DEVICE CLASSIFICATION | DONABED, NINOS | 14d |
| 18476556 | VISIBILITY AND SCANNING OF A VARIETY OF ENTITIES | PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J | 19d |
| 17993709 | ASSESSING ENTITY RISK BASED ON EXPOSED SERVICES | MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN | 21d |
| 18437346 | CLUSTERING ENHANCED ANALYSIS | IDOWU, OLUGBENGA O | 46d |
| 18080562 | COMPLIANCE MONITORING | BINCZAK, BRANDON MICHAEL | 79d |
| 19251530 | ENHANCED RISK ASSESSMENT | BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
| 18947802 | BEHAVIOR BASED PROFILING | RAHIM, MONJUR | — |
| 18072238 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF ATTACK PATTERNS FOR THREAT DETECTION | PHAM, PHUC H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2444 | 1 |
| 2436 | 1 |
| 2494 | 1 |
| 2409 | 1 |
| 2437 | 1 |
| 2408 | 1 |
| 2454 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19251530 | ENHANCED RISK ASSESSMENT | BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2431 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 18981249 | DECISION OPTIMIZATION MECHANISM FOR DEVICE CLASSIFICATION | DONABED, NINOS | 2444 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18947802 | BEHAVIOR BASED PROFILING | RAHIM, MONJUR | 2436 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18437346 | CLUSTERING ENHANCED ANALYSIS | IDOWU, OLUGBENGA O | 2494 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18476556 | VISIBILITY AND SCANNING OF A VARIETY OF ENTITIES | PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J | 2409 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18080562 | COMPLIANCE MONITORING | BINCZAK, BRANDON MICHAEL | 2437 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 79d | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
| 18072238 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF ATTACK PATTERNS FOR THREAT DETECTION | PHAM, PHUC H | 2408 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
| 17993709 | ASSESSING ENTITY RISK BASED ON EXPOSED SERVICES | MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN | 2454 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Nov 23, 2022 |
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