Technology area: Computing & Software
46 pending office actions • 23 art units • 44 examiners • 0 of 46 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 141 patents granted in the last 365 days
Netapp Inc. has 49 pending office actions in Computing & Software. The docket spans 45 distinct examiners and 24 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner coverage with repeated art-unit settings. Counsel can use those settings to organize recurring technical issues while preserving examiner-specific response planning.
GIARDINO JR, MARK A is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The limited concentration supports a focused review of those cases, but it does not replace portfolio-level tracking across the remaining assignments. Consistent claim-position management may be useful where related applications appear in the same art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 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. 12 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 | 3 (7%) |
| §101 + other | 7 (15%) |
| §103 only | 19 (41%) |
| §102 only | 2 (4%) |
| §112 only | 3 (7%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (4%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIARDINO JR, MARK A | 2 | 84.7% | +2.5% |
| HO, AARON D | 2 | 75.7% | +14.7% |
| SHAH, VAISHALI | 1 | 57.4% | +52.9% |
| BERTRAM, RYAN | 1 | 88.5% | +4.3% |
| BULLOCK, JOSHUA | 1 | 82.5% | +16.5% |
| CHERY, MARDOCHEE | 1 | 88.4% | +10.4% |
| FILIPCZYK, MARCIN R | 1 | 64.2% | +37.1% |
| LANE, GREGORY A | 1 | 74.8% | -0.8% |
| KHAN, MASUD K | 1 | 87.5% | +6.8% |
| MASKULINSKI, MICHAEL C | 1 | 89.2% | +9.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18919775 | Automated Application Detection And Storage Savings Based On Intelligent Workload Characterization | GIARDINO JR, MARK A | 12d |
| 19282390 | USAGE OF OP LOGS TO SYNCHRONIZE ACROSS PRIMARY AND SECONDARY STORAGE CLUSTERS OF A CROSS-SITE DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM AND LIGHTWEIGHT OP LOGGING | CHERY, MARDOCHEE | — |
| 19275178 | DATA MANAGEMENT ACROSS A PERSISTENT MEMORY TIER AND A FILE SYSTEM TIER | KHAN, MASUD K | — |
| 19267802 | JOURNAL REPLAY OPTIMIZATION | GIARDINO JR, MARK 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18194874 | REBALANCING SCANNER FOR USE IN REBALANCING FILES IN A DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS | BAKER, IRENE H | 42d overdue |
| 18785773 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO HANDLE DEPENDENT DATA, CONFLICTING DATA, OR METADATA OPERATIONS ON A DUAL COPY CROSS-SITE STORAGE SYSTEM WITH SIMULATANEOUS READ-WRITE ABILITY ON EACH COPY | SOMERS, MARC S | 26d overdue |
| 18785766 | Data Exfiltration Monitoring Using Semantic Queries | ABYANEH, ALI S | 19d overdue |
| 18785783 | METHODS TO MAINTAIN READ-WRITE CONSISTENCY AND DEPENDENT WRITE ORDER CONSISTENCY WITHIN A CROSS-SITE STORAGE SYSTEM | HUANG, BRYAN PAI SONG | 3d overdue |
| 18424368 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPRESSING STORAGE SYSTEM MONITORING DATA | CONYERS, DAWAUNE A | 1d overdue |
| 19096560 | STORAGE TIER VERIFICATION CHECKS | HOANG, HAU HAI | 20d |
| 19068398 | FREEING PAGES WITHIN PERSISTENT MEMORY | CORRIELUS, JEAN M | 35d |
| 18304950 | MULTI-ADMIN VERIFICATION FOR IMPROVED SECURITY OF DATA STORES | NANO, SARGON N | 50d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19329294 | MIRRORING OBJECTS BETWEEN DIFFERENT CLOUD PROVIDERS WITH DIFFERENT DATA LAYOUT REQUIREMENTS | SHAH, VAISHALI | — |
| 19296791 | SNAPSHOT STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT WITHIN AN OBJECT STORE | BULLOCK, JOSHUA | — |
| 19282390 | USAGE OF OP LOGS TO SYNCHRONIZE ACROSS PRIMARY AND SECONDARY STORAGE CLUSTERS OF A CROSS-SITE DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM AND LIGHTWEIGHT OP LOGGING | CHERY, MARDOCHEE | — |
| 19282544 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO REDUCE LATENCY OF INPUT/OUTPUT (I/O) OPERATIONS BASED ON CONSISTENCY POINT OPTIMIZATIONS DURING CREATION OF COMMON SNAPSHOTS FOR SYNCHRONOUS REPLICATED DATASETS OF A PRIMARY COPY OF DATA AT A PRIMARY STORAGE SYSTEM TO A MIRROR COPY OF THE DATA AT A CROSS-SITE SECONDARY STORAGE SYSTEM | FILIPCZYK, MARCIN R | — |
| 19034412 | USAGE OF OP LOG BASED FAST RECOVERY OF BIDIRECTIONAL SYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION IN A CROSS-SITE DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM | HO, AARON D | — |
| 18194332 | Write-Back Caching Across Clusters | HO, AARON D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2135 | 4 |
| 2113 | 4 |
| 2154 | 4 |
| 2133 | 3 |
| 2132 | 3 |
| 2159 | 3 |
| 2139 | 3 |
| 2199 | 3 |
| 2156 | 2 |
| 2153 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19329294 | MIRRORING OBJECTS BETWEEN DIFFERENT CLOUD PROVIDERS WITH DIFFERENT DATA LAYOUT REQUIREMENTS | SHAH, VAISHALI | 2156 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2025 |
| 19302157 | Identification Of Storage Backends To Higher-Level Processes To Perform Storage Volume Management | BERTRAM, RYAN | 2137 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2025 |
| 19296791 | SNAPSHOT STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT WITHIN AN OBJECT STORE | BULLOCK, JOSHUA | 2153 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 |
| 19282390 | USAGE OF OP LOGS TO SYNCHRONIZE ACROSS PRIMARY AND SECONDARY STORAGE CLUSTERS OF A CROSS-SITE DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM AND LIGHTWEIGHT OP LOGGING | CHERY, MARDOCHEE | 2133 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
| 19282544 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO REDUCE LATENCY OF INPUT/OUTPUT (I/O) OPERATIONS BASED ON CONSISTENCY POINT OPTIMIZATIONS DURING CREATION OF COMMON SNAPSHOTS FOR SYNCHRONOUS REPLICATED DATASETS OF A PRIMARY COPY OF DATA AT A PRIMARY STORAGE SYSTEM TO A MIRROR COPY OF THE DATA AT A CROSS-SITE SECONDARY STORAGE SYSTEM | FILIPCZYK, MARCIN R | 2153 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
| 19275768 | VERIFICATION OF A PUBLISHED IMAGE HAVING A PREDEFINED PORTION THAT HAS BEEN ALTERED BY A CLOUD PROVIDER PRIOR TO BEING MADE AVAILABLE VIA A MARKETPLACE OF THE CLOUD PROVIDER | LANE, GREGORY A | 2438 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19275178 | DATA MANAGEMENT ACROSS A PERSISTENT MEMORY TIER AND A FILE SYSTEM TIER | KHAN, MASUD K | 2132 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19267802 | JOURNAL REPLAY OPTIMIZATION | GIARDINO JR, MARK A | 2135 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 19268697 | REDUCING POTENTIAL DATA-LOSS SCENARIOS WHEN USING EPHEMERAL STORAGE AS BACKING STORAGE FOR JOURNALING BY A VIRTUAL STORAGE SYSTEM | MASKULINSKI, MICHAEL C | 2113 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 19250770 | METHODS TO SYNCHRONOUSLY REPLICATE DATA AND MANAGE AUDIT CONFIGURATION AND AUDIT DATA FOR A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM | WOO, ISAAC M | 2163 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19225640 | Managing Shared Resource Usage in Networked Storage Systems | CHAPPELL, DANIEL C | 2135 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19223260 | EFFICIENT CREATION OF BUCKET-LEVEL SNAPSHOTS AND EFFICIENT SNAPSHOT PROTECTION DETERMINATION | WILLIS, AMANDA LYNN | 2156 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19191148 | FACILITATING PERFORMANCE OF AND COORDINATION AMONG DISAGREGATED STORAGE SYSTEM WORKFLOWS BASED ON FILE SYSTEM LABELS | GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S | 2132 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19190994 | METHODS FOR HANDLING INPUT-OUTPUT OPERATIONS IN ZONED STORAGE SYSTEMS AND DEVICES THEREOF | KRIEGER, JONAH C | 2133 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19183991 | CROSS-NODE FILE SYSTEM CONTEXT CHECKS WITHIN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM USING DISAGGREGATED STORAGE | HU, XIAOQIN | 2168 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19183981 | SELECTIVELY BYPASSING AN EXTERNAL CACHE OF A STORAGE SYSTEM FOR LARGE READS BASED ON SATURATION LATENCY AND THROUGHPUT OF THE EXTERNAL CACHE | PAPERNO, NICHOLAS A | 2132 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19096560 | STORAGE TIER VERIFICATION CHECKS | HOANG, HAU HAI | 2154 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19094923 | SNAPSHOT CREATION WITH SYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION | ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S | 2154 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2025 |
| 19068398 | FREEING PAGES WITHIN PERSISTENT MEMORY | CORRIELUS, JEAN M | 2159 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19034412 | USAGE OF OP LOG BASED FAST RECOVERY OF BIDIRECTIONAL SYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION IN A CROSS-SITE DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM | HO, AARON D | 2139 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18982911 | SINGLE INPUT/OUTPUT WRITES IN A FILE SYSTEM HOSTED ON A CLOUD, VIRTUAL, OR COMMODITY-SERVER PLATFORM | BENNER, JANE WEI | 2139 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18982552 | COORDINATING SNAPSHOT OPERATIONS ACROSS MULTIPLE FILE SYSTEMS | SYED, FARHAN M | 2161 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18980516 | Cross-Shelf Data Replication | MCNAMARA, SEAN KEVIN | 2113 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18919775 | Automated Application Detection And Storage Savings Based On Intelligent Workload Characterization | GIARDINO JR, MARK A | 2135 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18897976 | Fan Control Setting Generation Using Machine Learning | CAIN, ZACHARY ANDREW | 2116 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18828089 | RECOVERY MECHANISM WITH SELECTIVE ORDERING AND CONCURRENT OPERATIONS | EHNE, CHARLES | 2113 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18785888 | Data Exfiltration Monitoring Using Hash Values | HERZOG, MADHURI R | 2438 | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18785783 | METHODS TO MAINTAIN READ-WRITE CONSISTENCY AND DEPENDENT WRITE ORDER CONSISTENCY WITHIN A CROSS-SITE STORAGE SYSTEM | HUANG, BRYAN PAI SONG | 2114 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18785773 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO HANDLE DEPENDENT DATA, CONFLICTING DATA, OR METADATA OPERATIONS ON A DUAL COPY CROSS-SITE STORAGE SYSTEM WITH SIMULATANEOUS READ-WRITE ABILITY ON EACH COPY | SOMERS, MARC S | 2159 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18785537 | Ransomware Detecting Using Decoy Files | LIU, ZHE | 2493 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18785766 | Data Exfiltration Monitoring Using Semantic Queries | ABYANEH, ALI S | 2437 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18740944 | Hybrid Model Of Fine-Grained Locking And Data Partitioning | ELLIS, MATTHEW J | 2152 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18741140 | Policy Enforcement And Performance Monitoring At Sub-Lun Granularity | AQUINO, WYNUEL S | 2199 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18646119 | AUTOMATED REMEDIATION OF DEVIATIONS FROM BEST PRACTICES IN A DATA MANAGEMENT STORAGE SOLUTION | SCHELL, JOSEPH O | 2114 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18644459 | BYPASS MECHANISM FOR WRITING TO OBJECT BASED STORAGE | MENDEL, JULIAN SCOTT | 2133 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18585250 | METHODS FOR HIERARCHICAL PROPAGATION IN TREE STRUCTURES AND DEVICES THEREOF | HERSHLEY, MARK E | 2164 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18424368 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPRESSING STORAGE SYSTEM MONITORING DATA | CONYERS, DAWAUNE A | 2159 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18515333 | MULTI-CLOUD PLATFORM FOR MIGRATION AND DEPLOYMENT OF CLOUD SERVICES | EWALD, JOHN ROBERT DAKITA | 2199 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18304950 | MULTI-ADMIN VERIFICATION FOR IMPROVED SECURITY OF DATA STORES | NANO, SARGON N | 2443 | §101 | Final Rejection | 50d | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
| 18194874 | REBALANCING SCANNER FOR USE IN REBALANCING FILES IN A DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS | BAKER, IRENE H | 2154 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
| 18194332 | Write-Back Caching Across Clusters | HO, AARON D | 2139 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18160653 | SELF-BALANCING STORAGE SYSTEM | KIM, ELIAS YOUNG | 2135 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2023 |
| 17660906 | CACHE-AWARE LOAD BALANCING | LU, KEVIN X | 2199 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2022 |
| 17653541 | MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFICATION OF OBJECT STORE WORKLOADS | MEHRMANESH, ELMIRA | 2113 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2022 |
| 17502397 | INTERCONNECT LAYER SEND QUEUE RESERVATION SYSTEM | SNYDER, STEVEN G | 2184 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2021 |
| 16858294 | NON-DISRPUTIVE TRANSITIONING BETWEEN REPLICATION SCHEMES | SAVLA, ARPAN P | 2154 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialNetapp Inc. has 46 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 23 art units and 44 examiners.
Mark A Giardino Jr. has the most, with 2 of Netapp Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
