Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Communications
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Palo Alto Networks (Israel Analytics) Ltd. is currently addressing 4 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. Each of these actions is assigned to a different individual among 4 distinct examiners. This equal ratio between actions and examiners indicates a broad exposure to different examiner interpretations across the company's pending cybersecurity-related filings.
The prosecution workload is further diversified across distinct art units, meaning every pending action is being processed in a different administrative section of the patent office. LINDA WONG is identified as the busiest examiner, though she is currently managing only 1 pending office action. Since each examiner holds exactly 1 pending action, the company faces a highly fragmented prosecution landscape where no single examiner or art unit dominates the current workload. This fragmentation requires a tailored approach for every individual case in the Networking & Security portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WONG, LINDA | 1 | 85.1% | +15.6% |
| LI, MENG | 1 | 86.3% | +20.2% |
| KNACKSTEDT, JACOB BENEDICT | 1 | 87.7% | +16.3% |
| WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | 1 | 80.0% | +28.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18783523 | Autonomous Cyber-Security Investigation and Response using Graphs | KNACKSTEDT, JACOB BENEDICT | 49d |
| 18791505 | LLM prompt with decoy categories | WONG, LINDA | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18475266 | Cloud computer credential theft detection | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | 16d overdue |
| 18789787 | Detection of Dynamic Link Library (DLL) Side Loading Attacks | LI, MENG | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18475266 | Cloud computer credential theft detection | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | 16d overdue |
| 18783523 | Autonomous Cyber-Security Investigation and Response using Graphs | KNACKSTEDT, JACOB BENEDICT | 49d |
| 18791505 | LLM prompt with decoy categories | WONG, LINDA | — |
| 18789787 | Detection of Dynamic Link Library (DLL) Side Loading Attacks | LI, MENG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2655 | 1 |
| 2437 | 1 |
| 2408 | 1 |
| 2443 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18791505 | LLM prompt with decoy categories | WONG, LINDA | 2655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18789787 | Detection of Dynamic Link Library (DLL) Side Loading Attacks | LI, MENG | 2437 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18783523 | Autonomous Cyber-Security Investigation and Response using Graphs | KNACKSTEDT, JACOB BENEDICT | 2408 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18475266 | Cloud computer credential theft detection | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | 2443 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
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