Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
24 pending office actions • 20 art units • 24 examiners • 0 of 24 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 50 patents granted in the last 365 days
Micro Focus LLC has 24 pending office actions in Computing & Software. Each matter is assigned to a distinct examiner, and the docket spans 19 distinct art units. This indicates broad examiner dispersion with some repeated technical placement, allowing limited art-unit comparison while requiring separate examiner-level preparation.
TIV, BACKHEAN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The data does not show a dominant examiner relationship. Counsel may therefore emphasize consistent technical terminology and claim objectives across the portfolio, then tailor responses to each individual examination record.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 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. 10 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 | 2 (8%) |
| §101 + other | 6 (25%) |
| §103 only | 12 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIV, BACKHEAN | 1 | 75.6% | +19.6% |
| ROCHE, JOHN B | 1 | 74.2% | -20.0% |
| DO, CHAT C | 1 | 43.8% | +11.5% |
| LIEW, ALEX KOK SOON | 1 | 87.7% | +7.2% |
| LYONS, ANDREW M | 1 | 73.8% | +15.5% |
| CHOWDHURY, ZIAUL A. | 1 | 87.1% | +36.4% |
| SALEHI, HELAI | 1 | 73.0% | +32.2% |
| BOYD, MALA DENAE | 1 | — | — |
| MCINTOSH, ANDREW T | 1 | 77.4% | +18.4% |
| SESAY, HASSAN RAMADAN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18917745 | Image-Based Object Identification Scalability Improvement | LIEW, ALEX KOK SOON | — |
| 18830514 | Using a Tested Software Bill-of-Materials (TSBOM) for Installing and Executing a Software Application | CHOWDHURY, ZIAUL A. | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18389770 | PATCH GENERATION FOR FLAWS IN SOFTWARE | SOUGH, HYUNG SUB | 59d overdue |
| 18768981 | Enhanced Real-Time Supply Chain Analysis | BOYD, MALA DENAE | 4d overdue |
| 18182241 | Application Resource Tracking Between Load Cycles of an Application | LIN, KATHERINE Y | 7d |
| 18098582 | LEARNING BASED IDENTIFICATION OF VULNERABLE FUNCTIONS IN RELATION TO COMMON VULNERABILITIES AND EXPOSURES (CVE) | FARAMARZI, GITA | 14d |
| 18210649 | AUTHORIZATION OF USE OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEYS | LOZA, JANICE JOMARIE | 34d |
| 18978630 | Using AI/Decompiler to Verify Software Bill-of-Materials (SBOM)s | DO, CHAT C | — |
| 18905718 | MACHINE-BASED SECURITY REQUIREMENTS ASSESSMENT | LYONS, ANDREW M | — |
| 18620798 | Real-Time Management of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Input Data/Training Corpus | MCINTOSH, ANDREW T | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19300632 | Prevention of Vishing Attacks | TIV, BACKHEAN | — |
| 18978630 | Using AI/Decompiler to Verify Software Bill-of-Materials (SBOM)s | DO, CHAT C | — |
| 18905718 | MACHINE-BASED SECURITY REQUIREMENTS ASSESSMENT | LYONS, ANDREW M | — |
| 18830514 | Using a Tested Software Bill-of-Materials (TSBOM) for Installing and Executing a Software Application | CHOWDHURY, ZIAUL A. | — |
| 18769377 | Using Codes to Provide More Secure Authentication | SALEHI, HELAI | — |
| 18620798 | Real-Time Management of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Input Data/Training Corpus | MCINTOSH, ANDREW T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2193 | 2 |
| 2191 | 2 |
| 2192 | 2 |
| 2433 | 2 |
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2184 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| 2497 | 1 |
| 2144 | 1 |
| 2146 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19300632 | Prevention of Vishing Attacks | TIV, BACKHEAN | 2431 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19201684 | IDENTIFYING ANOMALOUS DEVICE CONFIGURATION | ROCHE, JOHN B | 2184 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 18978630 | Using AI/Decompiler to Verify Software Bill-of-Materials (SBOM)s | DO, CHAT C | 2193 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18917745 | Image-Based Object Identification Scalability Improvement | LIEW, ALEX KOK SOON | 2674 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18905718 | MACHINE-BASED SECURITY REQUIREMENTS ASSESSMENT | LYONS, ANDREW M | 2191 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18830514 | Using a Tested Software Bill-of-Materials (TSBOM) for Installing and Executing a Software Application | CHOWDHURY, ZIAUL A. | 2192 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18769377 | Using Codes to Provide More Secure Authentication | SALEHI, HELAI | 2433 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18768981 | Enhanced Real-Time Supply Chain Analysis | BOYD, MALA DENAE | 2497 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18620798 | Real-Time Management of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Input Data/Training Corpus | MCINTOSH, ANDREW T | 2144 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18604669 | License Analysis for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Generated Compositions | SESAY, HASSAN RAMADAN | 2146 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18591719 | Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) Algorithms to Identify Input that Produces Issues in AI Generated Source Code | BOURZIK, BRAHIM | 2191 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18389770 | PATCH GENERATION FOR FLAWS IN SOFTWARE | SOUGH, HYUNG SUB | 2192 | §101 | Final Rejection | 59d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18533713 | Scanning of Training Code to Prevent Vulnerabilities in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Generated Source Code | LYNCH, SHARON S | 2400 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18367453 | DISCOVER AND MODEL APPLICATIONS DEPLOYED IN CONTAINERIZED PLATFORMS | HU, SELINA ELISA | 2193 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
| 18336364 | DETECTION OF MALICIOUS SOFTWARE PACKAGES USING MACHINE LEARNING ON CODE AND COMMUNITY DATA | ALMEIDA, DEVIN E | 2492 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18210649 | AUTHORIZATION OF USE OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEYS | LOZA, JANICE JOMARIE | 3698 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18131041 | CLIENT-SIDE COMPOSITION ANALYSIS | GELAGAY, SHEWAYE | 2436 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Apr 05, 2023 |
| 18182241 | Application Resource Tracking Between Load Cycles of an Application | LIN, KATHERINE Y | 2113 | §101 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Mar 10, 2023 |
| 18098582 | LEARNING BASED IDENTIFICATION OF VULNERABLE FUNCTIONS IN RELATION TO COMMON VULNERABILITIES AND EXPOSURES (CVE) | FARAMARZI, GITA | 2496 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jan 18, 2023 |
| 18149623 | Multi-Level Virtual Resource Authentication | XIE, EDGAR WANGSHU | 2433 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2023 |
| 17956664 | WATERMARK SERVER | EDWARDS, LINGLAN E | 2408 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
| 17844580 | TYING ADDRESSES TO AUTHENTICATION PROCESSES | HOANG, HIEU T | 2449 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2022 |
| 17623851 | SCHEDULING VIRTUAL USERS BASED ON CURVE FITTING | RUTNAM, SAMUEL DILAN | 2471 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Dec 29, 2021 |
| 17176944 | BUILDING, TRAINING, AND MAINTAINING AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGNECE-BASED FUNCTIONL TESTING TOOL | MACASIANO, JOANNE GONZALES | 2197 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialMicro Focus LLC has 24 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 20 art units and 24 examiners.
Backhean Tiv has the most, with 1 of Micro Focus LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
