Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
51 pending office actions • 21 art units • 48 examiners • 0 of 51 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 140 patents granted in the last 365 days
Netapp Inc. maintains a large prosecution presence in the Computing & Software technology area, with 51 pending office actions currently active. This portfolio is distributed across 21 distinct art units, reflecting a wide variety of technical sub-specialties within the software domain. The company is working with 48 distinct examiners to advance these applications, which necessitates a flexible approach to prosecution across the USPTO.
Craig S Goldschmidt is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. The high ratio of 48 distinct examiners to 51 pending office actions suggests that most examiners are handling only a single matter for the company. This broad distribution across 21 distinct art units requires managing a diverse range of examiner perspectives and art unit specificities. With 51 pending office actions in play, the company must maintain a consistent strategy while addressing the unique requirements of 48 distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 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. 13 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 (6%) |
| §101 + other | 6 (12%) |
| §103 only | 19 (37%) |
| §102 only | 3 (6%) |
| §112 only | 3 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (4%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 13 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S | 2 | 73.9% | +31.5% |
| HO, AARON D | 2 | 75.5% | +14.9% |
| NANO, SARGON N | 2 | 80.8% | -1.4% |
| BERTRAM, RYAN | 1 | 88.4% | +4.3% |
| BULLOCK, JOSHUA | 1 | 82.6% | +16.2% |
| CHERY, MARDOCHEE | 1 | 88.5% | +10.3% |
| FILIPCZYK, MARCIN R | 1 | 64.3% | +37.3% |
| LANE, GREGORY A | 1 | 74.8% | -0.7% |
| OBERLY, VAN HONG | 1 | 75.2% | +15.5% |
| KHAN, MASUD K | 1 | 87.5% | +6.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18053126 | MULTI-ADMIN VERIFICATION FOR IMPROVED SECURITY OF DATA STORES | NANO, SARGON N | 44d 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 |
| 18308473 | INTELLIGENT SELF-ADJUSTING METRIC COLLECTION | BARRETT, RYAN S | 9d 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 |
| 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 19275261 | NON-DISRUPTIVE FILE MOVEMENT WITHIN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM | OBERLY, VAN HONG | — |
| 19191148 | FACILITATING PERFORMANCE OF AND COORDINATION AMONG DISAGREGATED STORAGE SYSTEM WORKFLOWS BASED ON FILE SYSTEM LABELS | GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S | — |
| 19068324 | SPACE BALANCING WITHIN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM USING DISAGGREGATED STORAGE | GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 2139 | 4 |
| 2154 | 3 |
| 2443 | 3 |
| 2132 | 2 |
| 2159 | 2 |
| 2113 | 2 |
| 2114 | 2 |
| 2199 | 2 |
| 2161 | 1 |
| 2168 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19302157 | Identification Of Storage Backends To Higher-Level Processes To Perform Storage Volume Management | BERTRAM, RYAN | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2025 |
| 19296791 | SNAPSHOT STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT WITHIN AN OBJECT STORE | BULLOCK, JOSHUA | — | §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 | — | 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 | — | §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 | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19275261 | NON-DISRUPTIVE FILE MOVEMENT WITHIN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM | OBERLY, VAN HONG | — | DPOther | 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 | — | DP | 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 | 2161 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19238819 | KEY-VALUE STORE AND FILE SYSTEM INTEGRATION | CONYERS, DAWAUNE A | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19225640 | Managing Shared Resource Usage in Networked Storage Systems | CHAPPELL, DANIEL C | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19223277 | INSTANT AND IMMEDIATELY CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT RESTORE FROM A CLIENT PERSPECTIVE | BUTLER, SARAI E | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19223319 | FLEXIBLE OBJECT SELECTION FOR SNAPSHOT OPERATIONS | WILLIS, AMANDA LYNN | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19191148 | FACILITATING PERFORMANCE OF AND COORDINATION AMONG DISAGREGATED STORAGE SYSTEM WORKFLOWS BASED ON FILE SYSTEM LABELS | GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S | — | §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 | — | §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 |
| 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 |
| 19074396 | FASTER REPLAY OF METADATA AND DATA OPERATIONS USING INODE NUMBER BASED DEPENDENCY GRAPH | KUNJITHAPATHAM, ANUGEETHA | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2025 |
| 19068398 | FREEING PAGES WITHIN PERSISTENT MEMORY | CORRIELUS, JEAN M | 2159 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19068324 | SPACE BALANCING WITHIN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM USING DISAGGREGATED STORAGE | GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S | 2132 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | 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 | 2137 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 19029599 | PREFETCHING KEYS FOR GARBAGE COLLECTION | OTTO, ALAN | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 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 |
| 18980516 | Cross-Shelf Data Replication | MCNAMARA, SEAN KEVIN | 2113 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18898991 | SYSTEM CRASH ANALYSIS MECHANISM | VANG, MENG | 2443 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 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 |
| 18821335 | INPUT/OUTPUT OPERATIONS PER SECOND (IOPS) AND THROUGHPUT MONITORING FOR DYNAMIC AND OPTIMAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION | UNELUS, ERNEST | — | §101§102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18799034 | Data Storage System Drive Utilization | KUDIRKA, JOSEPH R | 2114 | §103 | Final Rejection | 103d overdue | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18790854 | METHODS FOR MANAGING STORAGE OPERATIONS FOR MULTIPLE HOSTS COUPLED TO DUAL-PORT SOLID-STATE DISKS AND DEVICES THEREOF | SADLER, NATHAN | 2139 | §102 | Final Rejection | 48d | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18787306 | Systems And Methods For Resource Lifecyle Management | LIN, HSING CHUN | 2195 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18785766 | Data Exfiltration Monitoring Using Semantic Queries | ABYANEH, ALI S | 2437 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | 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 |
| 18785537 | Ransomware Detecting Using Decoy Files | LIU, ZHE | 2493 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | 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 |
| 18785888 | Data Exfiltration Monitoring Using Hash Values | HERZOG, MADHURI R | 2438 | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | 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 | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18644459 | BYPASS MECHANISM FOR WRITING TO OBJECT BASED STORAGE | MENDEL, JULIAN SCOTT | 2133 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18617356 | ONLINE MIGRATION OF A STORAGE APPLIANCE FROM ONE DISK TYPE TO ANOTHER | TSAI, SHENG JEN | 2139 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18601726 | Methods And Systems For Moving Virtual Logical Storage Units Between Data Center Management Servers | PATEL, HIREN P | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 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 |
| 18308473 | INTELLIGENT SELF-ADJUSTING METRIC COLLECTION | BARRETT, RYAN S | 2148 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18304950 | MULTI-ADMIN VERIFICATION FOR IMPROVED SECURITY OF DATA STORES | NANO, SARGON N | 2443 | §101 | Final Rejection | 50d | Pending | Apr 21, 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 |
| 18053126 | MULTI-ADMIN VERIFICATION FOR IMPROVED SECURITY OF DATA STORES | NANO, SARGON N | 2443 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Nov 07, 2022 |
| 17660906 | CACHE-AWARE LOAD BALANCING | LU, KEVIN X | 2199 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 27, 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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