Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
10 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
McAfee LLC has 11 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed among 11 distinct examiners, which means every pending case is being reviewed by a different individual. The portfolio is active across 10 distinct art units, showing a very high degree of technical and administrative dispersion.
MANIWANG, JOSEPH R is the busiest examiner for this company, with 1 pending office action. This figure is consistent with the total of 11 distinct examiners for 11 pending actions, as no single examiner is currently handling more than one case. The 10 distinct art units provide the primary organizational structure for these 11 pending office actions.
The Networking & Security focus is processed through 10 distinct art units, yet the 11 pending office actions involve 11 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that McAfee LLC must navigate many different personal examination styles and technical divisions. Practitioners should prepare for a unique interaction for every action, as the 10 distinct art units suggest very little technical overlap across the docket.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 only | 1 (10%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (40%) |
| §103 only | 3 (30%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | 1 | 85.4% | +14.3% |
| TSWEI, YU-JANG | 1 | 83.7% | +15.9% |
| DONABED, NINOS | 1 | 75.2% | +64.5% |
| DOUGLAS, MICHELE CAMILLE | 1 | 80.0% | +42.9% |
| UDDIN, MD I | 1 | 77.0% | +73.5% |
| KANG, INSUN | 1 | 78.6% | +39.6% |
| KORZUCH, WILLIAM R | 1 | 75.0% | +0.0% |
| FISHER, PAUL R | 1 | 23.2% | +24.3% |
| YI, HYUNGJUN B | 1 | 34.5% | +30.2% |
| PATEL, NIRAV B | 1 | 72.3% | +41.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19198609 | PHISHING MITIGATION SERVICE | MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | — |
| 18913683 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IMPROVE DEEPFAKE DETECTION WITH EXPLAINABILITY | TSWEI, YU-JANG | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18536719 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOURCE CODE TRANSFORMATION | KANG, INSUN | 39d |
| 18401191 | Micro-Clustering System and Method | UDDIN, MD I | 70d |
| 18649806 | DEVICE IDENTIFICATION | DONABED, NINOS | — |
| 18647803 | CROWDSOURCED REPUTATIONS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS | DOUGLAS, MICHELE CAMILLE | — |
| 18090279 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR PROTECTING APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES | KORZUCH, WILLIAM R | — |
| 17881215 | CLUSTER-BASED MACHINE LEARNING MODEL VALIDATION | FISHER, PAUL R | — |
| 17401429 | Web Conference Security | PATEL, NIRAV B | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18536719 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOURCE CODE TRANSFORMATION | KANG, INSUN | 39d |
| 18401191 | Micro-Clustering System and Method | UDDIN, MD I | 70d |
| 19198609 | PHISHING MITIGATION SERVICE | MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | — |
| 18913683 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IMPROVE DEEPFAKE DETECTION WITH EXPLAINABILITY | TSWEI, YU-JANG | — |
| 18649806 | DEVICE IDENTIFICATION | DONABED, NINOS | — |
| 18647803 | CROWDSOURCED REPUTATIONS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS | DOUGLAS, MICHELE CAMILLE | — |
| 17881215 | CLUSTER-BASED MACHINE LEARNING MODEL VALIDATION | FISHER, PAUL R | — |
| 17404856 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO INCREMENTALLY TRAIN A MODEL | YI, HYUNGJUN B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2444 | 1 |
| 2646 | 1 |
| 2169 | 1 |
| 2193 | 1 |
| 2491 | 1 |
| 2498 | 1 |
| 2146 | 1 |
| 6214 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19198609 | PHISHING MITIGATION SERVICE | MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | 2431 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
| 18913683 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IMPROVE DEEPFAKE DETECTION WITH EXPLAINABILITY | TSWEI, YU-JANG | — | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18649806 | DEVICE IDENTIFICATION | DONABED, NINOS | 2444 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18647803 | CROWDSOURCED REPUTATIONS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS | DOUGLAS, MICHELE CAMILLE | 2646 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18401191 | Micro-Clustering System and Method | UDDIN, MD I | 2169 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18536719 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOURCE CODE TRANSFORMATION | KANG, INSUN | 2193 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18090279 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR PROTECTING APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES | KORZUCH, WILLIAM R | 2491 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
| 17881215 | CLUSTER-BASED MACHINE LEARNING MODEL VALIDATION | FISHER, PAUL R | 2498 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2022 |
| 17404856 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO INCREMENTALLY TRAIN A MODEL | YI, HYUNGJUN B | 2146 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2021 |
| 17401429 | Web Conference Security | PATEL, NIRAV B | 6214 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialMcAfee LLC has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 10 examiners.
Joseph R Maniwang has the most, with 1 of McAfee LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
