Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
KnowBe4 Inc. maintains a portfolio with 7 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed across 7 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units. This distribution shows that every pending matter is currently being reviewed by a different examiner in a unique art unit, indicating a broad spread of technology within the sector.
The busiest examiner for KnowBe4 Inc. is PARRY, CHRISTOPHER L, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. Given the total volume of 7 pending office actions, no single examiner holds a majority of the workload. This lack of concentration means that the company must navigate the specific requirements and tendencies of multiple different individuals simultaneously.
The presence of 7 distinct art units suggests that the company's Networking & Security innovations touch upon various specialized sub-fields. Practitioners should prepare for a diverse range of examination styles, as the workload is not centralized. The 1 pending office action assigned to PARRY, CHRISTOPHER L represents the maximum load for any single examiner in this portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 only | 1 (14%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (43%) |
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARRY, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 55.9% | +17.5% |
| SHINGLES, KRISTIE D | 1 | 82.1% | +13.5% |
| DO, KHANG D | 1 | 80.8% | +43.7% |
| BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | 1 | 42.7% | +30.3% |
| LEE, PO HAN | 1 | 31.7% | +41.2% |
| ZAIDI, SYED A | 1 | 81.9% | +12.2% |
| EL-BATHY, MOHAMED N | 1 | 28.9% | +32.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18113372 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HUMAN RESOURCES APPLICATIONS OF SECURITY AWARENESS TESTING | ZAIDI, SYED A | 79d overdue |
| 18606669 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING RISK SCORES | SHINGLES, KRISTIE D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18116404 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING AND COMMISSIONING A SECURITY AWARENESS PROGRAM | LEE, PO HAN | 30d overdue |
| 18370066 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR USER FEEDBACK ON RECEIVING A SIMULATED PHISHING MESSAGE | BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | 3d overdue |
| 18621695 | GLOBAL BLOCKLIST CURATION BASED ON CROWDSOURCED INDICATORS OF COMPROMISE | PARRY, CHRISTOPHER L | — |
| 18533517 | BLOCKLIST GENERATION SYSTEM BASED ON REPORTED THREATS | DO, KHANG D | — |
| 18108484 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SECURITY MATURITY DETERMINATION | EL-BATHY, MOHAMED N | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18113372 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HUMAN RESOURCES APPLICATIONS OF SECURITY AWARENESS TESTING | ZAIDI, SYED A | 79d overdue |
| 18116404 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING AND COMMISSIONING A SECURITY AWARENESS PROGRAM | LEE, PO HAN | 30d overdue |
| 18370066 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR USER FEEDBACK ON RECEIVING A SIMULATED PHISHING MESSAGE | BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | 3d overdue |
| 18621695 | GLOBAL BLOCKLIST CURATION BASED ON CROWDSOURCED INDICATORS OF COMPROMISE | PARRY, CHRISTOPHER L | — |
| 18606669 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING RISK SCORES | SHINGLES, KRISTIE D | — |
| 18533517 | BLOCKLIST GENERATION SYSTEM BASED ON REPORTED THREATS | DO, KHANG D | — |
| 18108484 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SECURITY MATURITY DETERMINATION | EL-BATHY, MOHAMED N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2451 | 1 |
| 2453 | 1 |
| 2492 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| 2432 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18621695 | GLOBAL BLOCKLIST CURATION BASED ON CROWDSOURCED INDICATORS OF COMPROMISE | PARRY, CHRISTOPHER L | 2451 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18606669 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING RISK SCORES | SHINGLES, KRISTIE D | 2453 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18533517 | BLOCKLIST GENERATION SYSTEM BASED ON REPORTED THREATS | DO, KHANG D | 2492 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18370066 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR USER FEEDBACK ON RECEIVING A SIMULATED PHISHING MESSAGE | BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | 3715 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Sep 19, 2023 |
| 18116404 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING AND COMMISSIONING A SECURITY AWARENESS PROGRAM | LEE, PO HAN | 3623 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Mar 02, 2023 |
| 18113372 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HUMAN RESOURCES APPLICATIONS OF SECURITY AWARENESS TESTING | ZAIDI, SYED A | 2432 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 79d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
| 18108484 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SECURITY MATURITY DETERMINATION | EL-BATHY, MOHAMED N | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
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