Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ironnet Cybersecurity Inc. has 3 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each matter is being evaluated by a different person. GHODRAT JAMSHIDI is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. All prosecution activity is contained within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a consistent technical focus despite the involvement of multiple examiners.
The concentration of these pending office actions within the Networking & Security area highlights the company's specialized focus on cybersecurity innovations. While the distinct examiners bring different perspectives to the review process, the unified art unit ensures that the technical standards applied remain relatively stable. This balance between diverse examiner viewpoints and a unified art unit framework requires a strategy that is both technically consistent and adaptable to individual examiner preferences. The current workload suggests a steady but controlled expansion of the company's patent portfolio.
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 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT | 1 | 86.9% | +15.0% |
| SHAUGHNESSY, AIDAN EDWARD | 1 | 18.8% | +1.8% |
| HOLDER, BRADLEY W | 1 | 83.9% | +61.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18797332 | ACTIVE COMMAND AND CONTROL SERVER DETECTION VIA DISTRIBUTED NETWORK SCANNING | HOLDER, BRADLEY W | 18d overdue |
| 19061822 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MALWARE DETECTION | JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19011333 | AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF ALGORITHMICALLY GENERATED DOMAIN FAMILIES | SHAUGHNESSY, AIDAN EDWARD | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18797332 | ACTIVE COMMAND AND CONTROL SERVER DETECTION VIA DISTRIBUTED NETWORK SCANNING | HOLDER, BRADLEY W | 18d overdue |
| 19061822 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MALWARE DETECTION | JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2408 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19061822 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MALWARE DETECTION | JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19011333 | AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF ALGORITHMICALLY GENERATED DOMAIN FAMILIES | SHAUGHNESSY, AIDAN EDWARD | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18797332 | ACTIVE COMMAND AND CONTROL SERVER DETECTION VIA DISTRIBUTED NETWORK SCANNING | HOLDER, BRADLEY W | 2408 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
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