Technology area: Networking & Security
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Malwarebytes Corporate Holdco Inc. is managing 1 pending office action in the Networking & Security technology area. The busiest examiner for the company is POPHAM, JEFFREY D, who has 1 pending action. The prosecution profile shows a narrow scope with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the 1 pending office action is the only current matter before the USPTO.
Practitioners should focus on the 1 distinct examiner's history within the Networking & Security area, as this single individual is responsible for the 1 pending action. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current filings are technically specialized and do not overlap with other units. Because the 1 pending office action is the only active case, the 1 distinct examiner's decisions will have a significant impact on the company's immediate patenting goals. For the practitioner, this centralized prosecution environment means that understanding the specific tendencies of the assigned examiner is essential for success.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POPHAM, JEFFREY D | 1 | 37.7% | +23.9% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17161497 | KERNEL BASED EXPLOITATION DETECTION AND PREVENTION USING GRAMMATICALLY STRUCTURED RULES | POPHAM, JEFFREY D | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2432 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17161497 | KERNEL BASED EXPLOITATION DETECTION AND PREVENTION USING GRAMMATICALLY STRUCTURED RULES | POPHAM, JEFFREY D | 2432 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jan 28, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialMalwarebytes Corporate Holdco Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jeffrey D Popham has the most, with 1 of Malwarebytes Corporate Holdco Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
