Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 42 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lacework Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Networking & Security. Both matters are assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit, giving the portfolio a concentrated examination structure.
SHAW, PETER C is the busiest examiner and handles 2 pending actions. This concentration makes consistency across claim amendments, interview strategy, and argumentation especially relevant for the pending docket.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAW, PETER C | 2 | 76.0% | +36.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18517747 | USING GRAPH-BASED QUERIES TO MONITOR AN ENVIRONMENT | SHAW, PETER C | — |
| 17589450 | Custom Policies and Queries for a Data Platform | SHAW, PETER C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2493 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18517747 | USING GRAPH-BASED QUERIES TO MONITOR AN ENVIRONMENT | SHAW, PETER C | 2493 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 17589450 | Custom Policies and Queries for a Data Platform | SHAW, PETER C | 2493 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialLacework Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Peter C Shaw has the most, with 2 of Lacework Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.