Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Micro Focus LLC

28 pending office actions • 21 art units • 28 examiners • 0 of 28 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 60 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

28
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
13
Final Rejections
5
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 28 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

20
Overdue
3
Due this week
4
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 28 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (20)Due ≤ 7 days (3)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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.

2
Hard (7%)
26
Medium (93%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (7%)
§103 only26 (93%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
27
Information Tech
96% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
4% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

280 h
Manual time on pending OAs
56 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
98 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ALI, AFAQ 1 90.2% +12.0%
BOYD, MALA DENAE 1
GUNDRY, STEPHEN T 1 91.8% +8.9%
CHAO, MICHAEL W 1 70.0% +40.6%
WANG, RONGFA PHILIP 1 84.6% +6.4%
BOURZIK, BRAHIM 1 65.3% +44.5%
ELIAS, EARL L 1 57.8% +21.1%
LUU, CUONG V 1 71.8% +36.8%
REYNOLDS, DEBORAH J 1 66.9% +13.6%
GOORAY, MARK A 1 76.3% +62.1%

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
18769346 Reviewing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Prompts and Outputs to Identify Malicious Behavior ALI, AFAQ 30d overdue
18596371 Java-Based Application Inventory Discovery WANG, RONGFA PHILIP 17d overdue
18766648 Using Artificial Intelligence to Identify Anomalous Behavior in a Distributed Ledger GUNDRY, STEPHEN T 2d overdue

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18389770 PATCH GENERATION FOR FLAWS IN SOFTWARE LUU, CUONG V 59d overdue
18182241 Application Resource Tracking Between Load Cycles of an Application LIN, KATHERINE Y 7d

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
18389770 PATCH GENERATION FOR FLAWS IN SOFTWARE LUU, CUONG V 59d overdue
18769346 Reviewing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Prompts and Outputs to Identify Malicious Behavior ALI, AFAQ 30d overdue
18419282 SEARCH TABLE AND SEARCH JOB FOR SEARCH QUERY FOR WHICH MATCHING EVENTS ARE TO BE CONTINUALLY PROVIDED ELIAS, EARL L 26d overdue
18591719 Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) Algorithms to Identify Input that Produces Issues in AI Generated Source Code BOURZIK, BRAHIM 3d overdue
18520863 Controlling the Use of Source Code for Training Artificial Intelligence (AI) Algorithms GOORAY, MARK A 1d overdue
18533713 Scanning of Training Code to Prevent Vulnerabilities in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Generated Source Code REYNOLDS, DEBORAH J 6d
18757995 THREAD-BASED MALWARE DETECTION CHAO, MICHAEL W 13d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2492 4
2435 2
2199 2
2191 2
2431 2
2434 1
2497 1
2169 1
2192 1
2400 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18769346 Reviewing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Prompts and Outputs to Identify Malicious Behavior ALI, AFAQ 2434 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jul 10, 2024
18768981 Enhanced Real-Time Supply Chain Analysis BOYD, MALA DENAE 2497 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jul 10, 2024
18766648 Using Artificial Intelligence to Identify Anomalous Behavior in a Distributed Ledger GUNDRY, STEPHEN T 2435 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Jul 09, 2024
18757995 THREAD-BASED MALWARE DETECTION CHAO, MICHAEL W 2492 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Jun 28, 2024
18596371 Java-Based Application Inventory Discovery WANG, RONGFA PHILIP 2199 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Mar 05, 2024
18591719 Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) Algorithms to Identify Input that Produces Issues in AI Generated Source Code BOURZIK, BRAHIM 2191 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Feb 29, 2024
18419282 SEARCH TABLE AND SEARCH JOB FOR SEARCH QUERY FOR WHICH MATCHING EVENTS ARE TO BE CONTINUALLY PROVIDED ELIAS, EARL L 2169 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Jan 22, 2024
18389770 PATCH GENERATION FOR FLAWS IN SOFTWARE LUU, CUONG V 2192 §101 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2023
18533713 Scanning of Training Code to Prevent Vulnerabilities in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Generated Source Code REYNOLDS, DEBORAH J 2400 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Dec 08, 2023
18520863 Controlling the Use of Source Code for Training Artificial Intelligence (AI) Algorithms GOORAY, MARK A 2199 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Nov 28, 2023
18520551 GLOBAL SIGNAL ANALYTICS ABDULLAH, SAAD AHMAD 2431 §103 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending Nov 27, 2023
18486916 Systems and Methods For Structured Bayesian Classification For Content Management BHUYAN, MOHAMMAD SOLAIMAN 2168 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2023
18372775 SECURITY ORCHESTRATION, AUTOMATION, AND RESPONSE (SOAR) PLAYBOOK GENERATION DO, KHANG D 2492 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Sep 26, 2023
18457981 ESTABLISHING SECURE SESSION VIA PROXY DEVICE ALMAMUN, ABDULLAH 2431 §103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Aug 29, 2023
18214243 SECURE HASHING SERVER DESROSIERS, EVANS 2491 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jun 26, 2023
18336364 DETECTION OF MALICIOUS SOFTWARE PACKAGES USING MACHINE LEARNING ON CODE AND COMMUNITY DATA ALMEIDA, DEVIN E 2492 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2023
18210649 AUTHORIZATION OF USE OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEYS LOZA, JANICE JOMARIE 3698 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jun 15, 2023
18305990 Sandboxing Databases WU, DAXIN 2191 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Apr 24, 2023
18131041 CLIENT-SIDE COMPOSITION ANALYSIS GELAGAY, SHEWAYE 2436 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2023
18191747 Audit Chain for Encrypted Hashes ABYANEH, ALI S 2437 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Mar 28, 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 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jan 18, 2023
17976480 UPDATING LABEL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS OF DATA POINTS MARU, MATIYAS T 2148 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Oct 28, 2022
17744413 DYNAMIC SELF-CHECK KIM, HEE SOO 2443 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending May 13, 2022
17719031 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEAR REAL-TIME RISK SCORE GENERATION NAHAR, SAYEDA S 2435 §103 Non-Final OA 128d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2022
17716763 USING AUTHENTICATION CREDENTIALS TO VALIDATE BLOCKCHAIN ADDITIONS DHARIA, RUPAL 2492 §103 Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2022
17623851 SCHEDULING VIRTUAL USERS BASED ON CURVE FITTING RUTNAM, SAMUEL DILAN 2471 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2021
17201726 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF GENERATING VIDEO MATERIAL HOPE, DARRIN 2178 §103 Final Rejection 58d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2021

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