Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Infoblox Inc. currently has 5 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These 5 actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that while the examiners are unique for each case, there is some overlap in the technical groups reviewing the applications.
GOODCHILD, WILLIAM J is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. With 5 distinct examiners for 5 total actions, the workload is evenly distributed across the assigned personnel. The presence of 4 distinct art units suggests that the company's networking and security technologies are being evaluated across several closely related technical divisions.
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 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 | 82.9% | +14.3% |
| GYORFI, THOMAS A | 1 | 75.5% | +16.3% |
| RONI, SYED A | 1 | 82.1% | +22.2% |
| OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N | 1 | 81.8% | +10.3% |
| 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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 |
| 19175980 | IDENTIFICATION OF TYPOSQUAT DOMAIN VARIATIONS IN PASSIVE DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM (PDNS) | GYORFI, THOMAS A | — |
| 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 5 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 | — |
| 19175980 | IDENTIFICATION OF TYPOSQUAT DOMAIN VARIATIONS IN PASSIVE DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM (PDNS) | GYORFI, THOMAS A | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 2435 | 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 | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19175980 | IDENTIFICATION OF TYPOSQUAT DOMAIN VARIATIONS IN PASSIVE DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM (PDNS) | GYORFI, THOMAS A | 2435 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 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 | §102§112 | 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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