Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
20 pending office actions • 15 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 55 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nutanix Inc. maintains a robust prosecution pipeline with 22 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. This portfolio is notable for its broad administrative reach, spanning 16 distinct art units. Such a high number of art units suggests that the company's technical innovations are being classified across a wide variety of specialized examination groups within the patent office.
The portfolio involves 21 distinct examiners, indicating that almost every pending action is being handled by a different individual. SKHOUN, HICHAM is the busiest examiner with 2 pending actions, which is a very low concentration given the 22 total pending office actions. This wide distribution means that the company must adapt to the specific styles and requirements of 21 different examiners, making consistency in prosecution strategy a significant undertaking.
The diversity of 16 distinct art units highlights the complexity of managing this portfolio. With only 2 actions assigned to the busiest examiner, the vast majority of the pending office actions are isolated cases. Practitioners must be prepared for a highly decentralized experience where the feedback from one art unit or examiner may have limited predictive value for the rest of the active applications.
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 | 1 (5%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (10%) |
| §103 only | 15 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (10%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SKHOUN, HICHAM | 2 | 77.1% | +5.5% |
| BROMELL, ALEXANDRIA Y | 1 | 75.5% | +10.8% |
| MORRIS, JOHN J | 1 | 61.4% | +20.4% |
| PHAN, TUANKHANH D | 1 | 79.3% | +12.7% |
| CHRISTENSEN, SCOTT B | 1 | 77.8% | +32.5% |
| PRIFTI, AUREL | 1 | 83.0% | +22.1% |
| PEUGH, BRIAN R | 1 | 92.3% | +1.0% |
| YU, XIANG | 1 | 55.3% | +46.1% |
| GUSTAFSON, MATHEW DONALD | 1 | 83.3% | +41.7% |
| GURMU, MULUEMEBET | 1 | 80.2% | +17.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18806617 | BOOTSTRAPPING A MICROSERVICES REGISTRY | PRIFTI, AUREL | 2d overdue |
| 18640326 | WRITEABLE PARTITIONS WITHIN READ-ONLY REPLICATED RECORDS | GURMU, MULUEMEBET | 27d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18791271 | CONTAINERIZED CLOUD-NATIVE CLUSTER STORAGE TARGETS | PEUGH, BRIAN R | 60d overdue |
| 18217438 | INFRASTRUCTURE-INDEPENDENT SCALING OF HYPERCONVERGED COMPUTING NODES | AYERS, MICHAEL W | 46d overdue |
| 18756809 | FAST, REVERSIBLE ROLLBACK AT SHARE LEVEL IN VIRTUALIZED FILE SERVER | GUSTAFSON, MATHEW DONALD | 26d |
| 19071587 | FILE ANALYTICS SYSTEMS INCLUDING EXAMPLES PROVIDING METRICS ADJUSTED FOR APPLICATION OPERATION | SKHOUN, HICHAM | 76d |
| 19207943 | DATABASE AS A SERVICE ON CLOUD | BROMELL, ALEXANDRIA Y | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19082057 | DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM JOURNAL ON A SINGLE MEMORY PAGE | PHAN, TUANKHANH D | 35d overdue |
| 18806617 | BOOTSTRAPPING A MICROSERVICES REGISTRY | PRIFTI, AUREL | 2d overdue |
| 18930885 | PLATFORM-AS-A-SERVICE DEPLOYMENT INCLUDING SERVICE DOMAINS | CHRISTENSEN, SCOTT B | 14d |
| 18756809 | FAST, REVERSIBLE ROLLBACK AT SHARE LEVEL IN VIRTUALIZED FILE SERVER | GUSTAFSON, MATHEW DONALD | 26d |
| 18640326 | WRITEABLE PARTITIONS WITHIN READ-ONLY REPLICATED RECORDS | GURMU, MULUEMEBET | 27d |
| 19207943 | DATABASE AS A SERVICE ON CLOUD | BROMELL, ALEXANDRIA Y | — |
| 19181123 | TECHNIQUE FOR MIGRATING A SNAPSHOT STORAGE SERVICE DURING A PLANNED FAILOVER EVENT | MORRIS, JOHN J | — |
| 18790809 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT TRAFFIC FORWARDING FROM A PRIVATE CLOUD | YU, XIANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2156 | 2 |
| 2164 | 2 |
| 2113 | 2 |
| 2195 | 2 |
| 2154 | 1 |
| 2444 | 1 |
| 2175 | 1 |
| 2133 | 1 |
| 2455 | 1 |
| 2163 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19207943 | DATABASE AS A SERVICE ON CLOUD | BROMELL, ALEXANDRIA Y | 2156 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19181123 | TECHNIQUE FOR MIGRATING A SNAPSHOT STORAGE SERVICE DURING A PLANNED FAILOVER EVENT | MORRIS, JOHN J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 19082057 | DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM JOURNAL ON A SINGLE MEMORY PAGE | PHAN, TUANKHANH D | 2154 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19071587 | FILE ANALYTICS SYSTEMS INCLUDING EXAMPLES PROVIDING METRICS ADJUSTED FOR APPLICATION OPERATION | SKHOUN, HICHAM | 2164 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 76d | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 18930885 | PLATFORM-AS-A-SERVICE DEPLOYMENT INCLUDING SERVICE DOMAINS | CHRISTENSEN, SCOTT B | 2444 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18806617 | BOOTSTRAPPING A MICROSERVICES REGISTRY | PRIFTI, AUREL | 2175 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18791271 | CONTAINERIZED CLOUD-NATIVE CLUSTER STORAGE TARGETS | PEUGH, BRIAN R | 2133 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18790809 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT TRAFFIC FORWARDING FROM A PRIVATE CLOUD | YU, XIANG | 2455 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18756809 | FAST, REVERSIBLE ROLLBACK AT SHARE LEVEL IN VIRTUALIZED FILE SERVER | GUSTAFSON, MATHEW DONALD | 2113 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18640326 | WRITEABLE PARTITIONS WITHIN READ-ONLY REPLICATED RECORDS | GURMU, MULUEMEBET | 2163 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18243980 | LAZY INDEX CONSTRUCTION OF SNAPSHOTS IN A REPLICATION RECEIVER | ALLEN, BRITTANY N | 2169 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18217438 | INFRASTRUCTURE-INDEPENDENT SCALING OF HYPERCONVERGED COMPUTING NODES | AYERS, MICHAEL W | 2195 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18069920 | ENUMERATION FOR DISTRIBUTED FILE SERVERS | SHAH, VAISHALI | 2156 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
| 18080563 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A VIRTUAL OBJECT STORE | WOOD, WILLIAM C | 2193 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
| 18051014 | MANUAL SNAPSHOT AND RESTORE OF USER APPLICATIONS HOSTED ON CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURES | XU, MICHAEL | 2113 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Oct 31, 2022 |
| 17880283 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF QUERYING OBJECTS ON DEMAND | SYED, FARHAN M | 2161 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Aug 03, 2022 |
| 17864252 | GENERATING RULES FOR MANAGING AN INFRASTRUCTURE FROM NATURAL-LANGUAGE EXPRESSIONS | CASTILLO-TORRES, KEISHA Y | 2659 | §103 | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Jul 13, 2022 |
| 17718153 | VIRTUAL MACHINE MEMORY SNAPSHOTS IN PERSISTENT MEMORY | XU, ZUJIA | 2195 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2022 |
| 17452144 | MALICIOUS ACTIVITY DETECTION AND REMEDIATION IN VIRTUALIZED FILE SERVERS | SKHOUN, HICHAM | 2164 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2021 |
| 16522567 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DEPOYING A MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE AS A SERVICE AT SYSTEMS | BREENE, PAUL J | 2129 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2019 |
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