Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Proofpoint, Inc.

11 pending office actions • 9 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
8
Medium (73%)
2
Easy (18%)
1
Unknown (9%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (73%)
§112 only2 (18%)
No statute on record1 (9%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
10
Information Tech
91% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
9% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
UDDIN, MOHAMMED R 1 77.8% +30.5%
GUNDRY, STEPHEN T 1 91.8% +8.9%
AHSAN, SYED M 1 73.2% +18.8%
KORZUCH, WILLIAM R 1 75.0% +0.0%
KHAN, MOEEN 1 69.3% +60.3%
RAHIM, MONJUR 1 84.4% +16.3%
POPHAM, JEFFREY D 1 37.4% +24.0%
PERUNGAVOOR, VENKATANARAY 1 87.7% +3.3%
DAY, JASMINE MOCHEN 1 92.9% +25.0%
LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER 1 0.0% +0.0%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18738285 System and Method for Scalable File Filtering Using Wildcards PERUNGAVOOR, VENKATANARAY 30d overdue
18950923 MACHINE LEARNING UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR (URL) CLASSIFIER GUNDRY, STEPHEN T 9d overdue
18703348 DETECTING INSIDER USER BEHAVIOR THREATS BY COMPARING A CURRENT (LATEST) USER ACTIVITY TO USER ACTIVITIES OF OTHERS DAY, JASMINE MOCHEN

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17760527 MANAGING AND ROUTING OF ENDPOINT TELEMETRY USING REALMS LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER 18d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18842501 System and Method for Light Data File Upload Prevention RAHIM, MONJUR 85d overdue
18910709 FOCUSED IMAGE GRABBING AHSAN, SYED M 46d overdue
19184935 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUERY TERM ANALYTICS UDDIN, MOHAMMED R 28d
18788410 Determining Authenticity of Reported User Action in Cybersecurity Risk Assessment POPHAM, JEFFREY D 29d
18892952 Preventing Disclosure of Sensitive Information in Attempting to Utilize Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Through an In-line Interface KHAN, MOEEN
18703348 DETECTING INSIDER USER BEHAVIOR THREATS BY COMPARING A CURRENT (LATEST) USER ACTIVITY TO USER ACTIVITIES OF OTHERS DAY, JASMINE MOCHEN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2491 2
2436 2
2161 1
2435 1
2432 1
2492 1
2499 1
2496 1
3715 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19184935 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUERY TERM ANALYTICS UDDIN, MOHAMMED R 2161 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Apr 21, 2025
18950923 MACHINE LEARNING UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR (URL) CLASSIFIER GUNDRY, STEPHEN T 2435 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Nov 18, 2024
18910709 FOCUSED IMAGE GRABBING AHSAN, SYED M 2491 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Oct 09, 2024
18892876 Preventing Disclosure of Sensitive Information In Attempts to Utilize Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Through a Web Browser Interface KORZUCH, WILLIAM R 2491 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 23, 2024
18892952 Preventing Disclosure of Sensitive Information in Attempting to Utilize Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Through an In-line Interface KHAN, MOEEN 2436 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 23, 2024
18842501 System and Method for Light Data File Upload Prevention RAHIM, MONJUR 2436 Non-Final OA 85d overdue Pending Aug 29, 2024
18788410 Determining Authenticity of Reported User Action in Cybersecurity Risk Assessment POPHAM, JEFFREY D 2432 §112 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jul 30, 2024
18738285 System and Method for Scalable File Filtering Using Wildcards PERUNGAVOOR, VENKATANARAY 2492 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jun 10, 2024
18703348 DETECTING INSIDER USER BEHAVIOR THREATS BY COMPARING A CURRENT (LATEST) USER ACTIVITY TO USER ACTIVITIES OF OTHERS DAY, JASMINE MOCHEN 2499 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 21, 2024
17760527 MANAGING AND ROUTING OF ENDPOINT TELEMETRY USING REALMS LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER 2496 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2022
17486014 Context-Aware Cybersecurity Training Systems, Apparatuses, and Methods GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A 3715 §112 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2021

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