Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Infoblox Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The matters are assigned to 4 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units.
GOODCHILD, WILLIAM J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The fully distributed docket favors matter-specific responses supported by consistent portfolio positions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOODCHILD, WILLIAM J | 1 | 82.8% | +14.4% |
| RONI, SYED A | 1 | 82.1% | +22.2% |
| OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N | 1 | 81.9% | +10.2% |
| RAZA, MUHAMMAD A | 1 | 56.1% | +68.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18806400 | BUILDING LINGUISTIC OPERATIONAL EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR DNS, DHCP, AND IPAM (DDI) | OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N | 5d overdue |
| 19184242 | DETECTING HOMOGRAPHS OF DOMAIN NAMES | GOODCHILD, WILLIAM J | — |
| 19010991 | POLICY-BASED DYNAMIC VPN PROFILE SELECTION USING DNS PROTOCOL | RONI, SYED A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18784281 | SMART WHITELISTING FOR DNS SECURITY | RAZA, MUHAMMAD A | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18806400 | BUILDING LINGUISTIC OPERATIONAL EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR DNS, DHCP, AND IPAM (DDI) | OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N | 5d overdue |
| 19184242 | DETECTING HOMOGRAPHS OF DOMAIN NAMES | GOODCHILD, WILLIAM J | — |
| 19010991 | POLICY-BASED DYNAMIC VPN PROFILE SELECTION USING DNS PROTOCOL | RONI, SYED A | — |
| 18784281 | SMART WHITELISTING FOR DNS SECURITY | RAZA, MUHAMMAD A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2433 | 1 |
| 2432 | 1 |
| 2658 | 1 |
| 2449 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19184242 | DETECTING HOMOGRAPHS OF DOMAIN NAMES | GOODCHILD, WILLIAM J | 2433 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19010991 | POLICY-BASED DYNAMIC VPN PROFILE SELECTION USING DNS PROTOCOL | RONI, SYED A | 2432 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18806400 | BUILDING LINGUISTIC OPERATIONAL EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR DNS, DHCP, AND IPAM (DDI) | OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N | 2658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18784281 | SMART WHITELISTING FOR DNS SECURITY | RAZA, MUHAMMAD A | 2449 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialInfoblox Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
William J Goodchild has the most, with 1 of Infoblox Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
