Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

McAfee LLC

12 pending office actions • 9 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

3
Hard (25%)
8
Medium (67%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (8%)
§101 + other1 (8%)
§103 only6 (50%)
Double-patenting + other2 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (8%)
No statute on record1 (8%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
9
Information Tech
75% of docket
1
Communications
8% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
2
Business / Other
17% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHAMPAKESAN, BADRI NARAYANAN 1 91.2% +55.4%
JEUDY, JOSNEL 1 83.7% -16.2%
RACHEDINE, MOHAMMED 1 86.9% +11.4%
DONABED, NINOS 1 75.4% +66.3%
CAO, DIEM K 1 80.3% +19.2%
NAJI, YOUNES 1 75.0% +73.1%
CADY, MATTHEW ALAN 1
LIN, SHERMAN L 1 29.1% +36.6%
HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS 1 78.3% +17.6%
KORZUCH, WILLIAM R 1 75.0% +0.0%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19074800 USER ACTIVITY-TRIGGERED URL SCAN CHAMPAKESAN, BADRI NARAYANAN
18819135 OBJECT INSPECTION VIA OPERATING SYSTEM SHARE FUNCTION JEUDY, JOSNEL
18663997 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETECT DEEPFAKE CONTENT RACHEDINE, MOHAMMED

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18532287 USER SPACE FIREWALL MANAGER HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS 5d overdue
18649806 DEVICE IDENTIFICATION DONABED, NINOS
18641129 METHODS, SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE AND APPARATUS TO BUILD PRIVACY PRESERVING MODELS NAJI, YOUNES
18542241 WELLNESS DETECTION AND RESPONSE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES LIN, SHERMAN L

Interview Candidates (7)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18532287 USER SPACE FIREWALL MANAGER HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS 5d overdue
19074800 USER ACTIVITY-TRIGGERED URL SCAN CHAMPAKESAN, BADRI NARAYANAN
18663997 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETECT DEEPFAKE CONTENT RACHEDINE, MOHAMMED
18649806 DEVICE IDENTIFICATION DONABED, NINOS
18642598 DYNAMIC PROCESS CRITICALITY SCORING CAO, DIEM K
18641129 METHODS, SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE AND APPARATUS TO BUILD PRIVACY PRESERVING MODELS NAJI, YOUNES
18542241 WELLNESS DETECTION AND RESPONSE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES LIN, SHERMAN L

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2491 2
2438 1
2646 1
2444 1
2196 1
2445 1
2447 1
2146 1
2432 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19074800 USER ACTIVITY-TRIGGERED URL SCAN CHAMPAKESAN, BADRI NARAYANAN §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Mar 10, 2025
18819135 OBJECT INSPECTION VIA OPERATING SYSTEM SHARE FUNCTION JEUDY, JOSNEL 2438 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 29, 2024
18663997 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETECT DEEPFAKE CONTENT RACHEDINE, MOHAMMED 2646 §103DP Non-Final OA Pending May 14, 2024
18649806 DEVICE IDENTIFICATION DONABED, NINOS 2444 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 29, 2024
18642598 DYNAMIC PROCESS CRITICALITY SCORING CAO, DIEM K 2196 Other Non-Final OA Pending Apr 22, 2024
18641129 METHODS, SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE AND APPARATUS TO BUILD PRIVACY PRESERVING MODELS NAJI, YOUNES 2445 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 19, 2024
18395325 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO UTILIZE CACHED GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESPONSES CADY, MATTHEW ALAN §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 22, 2023
18542241 WELLNESS DETECTION AND RESPONSE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES LIN, SHERMAN L 2447 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 15, 2023
18532287 USER SPACE FIREWALL MANAGER HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS 2491 §102§103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Dec 07, 2023
18090279 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR PROTECTING APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES KORZUCH, WILLIAM R 2491 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 28, 2022
17404856 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO INCREMENTALLY TRAIN A MODEL YI, HYUNGJUN B 2146 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 17, 2021
16653702 PRE-LAUNCH PROCESS VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT SAVENKOV, VADIM 2432 §103 Final Rejection 53d overdue Pending Oct 15, 2019

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