Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
25 pending office actions • 16 art units • 25 examiners • 0 of 25 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 55 patents granted in the last 365 days
Micro Focus LLC maintains a presence in the Networking & Security technology area with 24 pending office actions. This volume of activity is distributed across 24 distinct examiners, which represents a diversified prosecution strategy. By engaging with this many examiners, the company avoids over-reliance on the discretion of any individual at the patent office.
The portfolio's reach extends across 16 distinct art units, indicating a broad technical scope within the Networking & Security field. This distribution across 16 units suggests that the company's innovations touch upon various sub-sectors of the industry, requiring navigation of multiple sets of examination guidelines. The complexity of managing the pending actions across so many different administrative divisions requires significant coordination.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is AGUIAR, JOHNNY B, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. It is notable that even the busiest examiner only manages 1 of the pending actions, reinforcing the observation that the workload is spread out. This lack of concentration means that no examiner's backlog or specific examination style will significantly impact the overall trajectory of the company's pending intellectual property.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 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. 11 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 (24%) |
| §103 only | 13 (52%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AGUIAR, JOHNNY B | 1 | 80.4% | +19.3% |
| ROCHE, JOHN B | 1 | 74.1% | -20.0% |
| CHEN, SHIN HON | 1 | 86.2% | +13.4% |
| ADESANYA, OLUJIMI A | 1 | 65.8% | +26.9% |
| LIEW, ALEX KOK SOON | 1 | 87.6% | +7.2% |
| CHOWDHURY, ZIAUL A. | 1 | 87.1% | +36.4% |
| MALIK, ZEERICK ASIM | 1 | — | — |
| SALEHI, HELAI | 1 | 73.0% | +32.2% |
| CHAO, MICHAEL W | 1 | 70.1% | +39.7% |
| MCINTOSH, ANDREW T | 1 | 77.4% | +18.2% |
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 |
| 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 |
| 19209463 | AUTOMATED NETWORK CONFIGURATION | AGUIAR, JOHNNY B | — |
| 18969260 | SENSITIVE INFORMATION DISCOVERY AND TEST COMPONENT CONFIGURATION | CHEN, SHIN HON | — |
| 18938543 | ENABLING CUSTOM WORD IDENTIFICATION IN SPEECH-TO-TEXT MODELS | ADESANYA, OLUJIMI A | — |
| 18774916 | AUTOMATIC SCRIPT ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION | MALIK, ZEERICK ASIM | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18757995 | THREAD-BASED MALWARE DETECTION | CHAO, MICHAEL W | 13d |
| 19209463 | AUTOMATED NETWORK CONFIGURATION | AGUIAR, JOHNNY B | — |
| 18969260 | SENSITIVE INFORMATION DISCOVERY AND TEST COMPONENT CONFIGURATION | CHEN, SHIN HON | — |
| 18938543 | ENABLING CUSTOM WORD IDENTIFICATION IN SPEECH-TO-TEXT MODELS | ADESANYA, OLUJIMI A | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 2192 | 2 |
| 2193 | 2 |
| 2433 | 2 |
| 2492 | 2 |
| 2658 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| 2191 | 1 |
| 2400 | 1 |
| 3698 | 1 |
| 2436 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19209463 | AUTOMATED NETWORK CONFIGURATION | AGUIAR, JOHNNY B | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 19201684 | IDENTIFYING ANOMALOUS DEVICE CONFIGURATION | ROCHE, JOHN B | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 18969260 | SENSITIVE INFORMATION DISCOVERY AND TEST COMPONENT CONFIGURATION | CHEN, SHIN HON | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18938543 | ENABLING CUSTOM WORD IDENTIFICATION IN SPEECH-TO-TEXT MODELS | ADESANYA, OLUJIMI A | 2658 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18917745 | Image-Based Object Identification Scalability Improvement | LIEW, ALEX KOK SOON | 2674 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 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 |
| 18774916 | AUTOMATIC SCRIPT ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION | MALIK, ZEERICK ASIM | 2193 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18769377 | Using Codes to Provide More Secure Authentication | SALEHI, HELAI | 2433 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18757995 | THREAD-BASED MALWARE DETECTION | CHAO, MICHAEL W | 2492 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18620798 | Real-Time Management of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Input Data/Training Corpus | MCINTOSH, ANDREW T | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18604669 | License Analysis for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Generated Compositions | SESAY, HASSAN RAMADAN | — | §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 |
| 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 | §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 |
| 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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