Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Pure Storage Inc.

96 pending office actions • 41 art units • 81 examiners • 0 of 96 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 182 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

96
Total Pending OAs
56
Non-Final OAs
39
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 27 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

13
Overdue
1
Due this week
6
Due this month
6
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 27 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (13)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (6)Due later (1)

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.

27
Hard (28%)
62
Medium (65%)
7
Easy (7%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (1%)
§101 + other8 (8%)
§103 only49 (51%)
§102 only7 (7%)
§112 only4 (4%)
Double-patenting only3 (3%)
Double-patenting + other6 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)18 (19%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
73
Information Tech
76% of docket
1
Communications
1% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
22
Business / Other
23% 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.

960 h
Manual time on pending OAs
192 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
336 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
8.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MENG, JAU SHYA 3 79.1% +34.6%
PARK, GRACE A 2 76.1% +17.8%
SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J 2 77.0% +13.0%
CARDWELL, ERIC 2 87.9% +11.8%
CHOI, CHARLES J 2 82.8% +5.3%
GRACIA, GARY S 2 71.5% +48.7%
KERVEROS, DEMETRIOS C 2 87.4% +2.6%
DALEY, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY 2 83.9% +10.5%
GIARDINO JR, MARK A 2 84.8% +2.6%
KNAPP, JUSTIN R 2 84.5% +8.4%

Quick Wins (10)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18333494 Variable Redundancy For Metadata In Storage Systems CARDWELL, ERIC 19d overdue
18958550 OPTIMIZING VOLTAGE TUNING USING PRIOR VOLTAGE TUNING RESULTS KERVEROS, DEMETRIOS C 4d overdue
19018279 Rebuilding Encoded Data Slices via a Storage Network Processor GIARDINO JR, MARK A 14d
19198976 Data Migration Across Different Parity Configurations Within A Unified Storage Element CARDWELL, ERIC
19053323 ADAPTIVE BUFFER FOR MANAGED FLASH SYSTEM CHOI, CHARLES J
19023789 Managing Versioning in a Distributed Storage Network KERVEROS, DEMETRIOS C
19019767 Queueing Storage Operations DALEY, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY
19020747 MODIFYING PROTOCOLS FOR MULTI-PORTED STORAGE DEVICES OF A STORAGE SYSTEM DALEY, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY

Hard Cases (27)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18324596 MIGRATING DATA FROM DISPARATE OBJECT STORAGE ENVIRONMENTS MCQUITERY, DIEDRA M 37d overdue
17585991 HYBRID CASCADED SORTING PIPELINE CALDWELL, ANDREW T 8d overdue
18809957 Queryable Object Or File Metadata Catalog FAAL, BABOUCARR 3d overdue
18638540 STORAGE SYSTEM WITH COMPONENT UPDATE FUNCTIONALITY HASAN, SYED HAROON 5d
18758152 Configurable Realms To Support Multi-Tenancy For Storage Resources DINH, KHANH Q 34d
18821723 Intelligent Snapshot Management MENG, JAU SHYA 56d
18817926 MULTIPLE THRESHOLDS FOR MANAGING FLASH MEMORY ALSHACK, OSMAN M 60d
19299207 DIRECTORY DELETION WITHOUT CONCERN FOR ORDER KUDDUS, DANIEL A

Interview Candidates (13)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18333494 Variable Redundancy For Metadata In Storage Systems CARDWELL, ERIC 19d overdue
18647057 Multi-Party Authorization for Requests Initiated by a Storage Management System GRACIA, GARY S 8d overdue
18946188 PROVIDING MULTITENANT ENCRYPTION IN A MANAGED FLASH STORAGE DEVICE STORAGE SYSTEM SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J 33d
18821723 Intelligent Snapshot Management MENG, JAU SHYA 56d
19556750 Scale Storage System With Integrated Analytics Execution PARK, GRACE A
19423524 FLASH SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED LOG ANALYTICS AND ANOMALY DETECTION PARK, GRACE A
19287535 ADAPTIVE WORKLOAD ALLOCATION USING STORAGE SYSTEM UTILIZATION PATTERNS SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J
19198976 Data Migration Across Different Parity Configurations Within A Unified Storage Element CARDWELL, ERIC

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2137 6
2139 5
2181 5
2114 4
2168 4
2135 4
2112 4
2138 3
2153 3
2144 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19556750 Scale Storage System With Integrated Analytics Execution PARK, GRACE A 2144 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 04, 2026
19423524 FLASH SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED LOG ANALYTICS AND ANOMALY DETECTION PARK, GRACE A 2144 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 17, 2025
19299207 DIRECTORY DELETION WITHOUT CONCERN FOR ORDER KUDDUS, DANIEL A §101§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Aug 13, 2025
19295835 Storage Unit Error Identification in a Storage Network RUSIN, KAYO LISA 2114 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Aug 11, 2025
19287535 ADAPTIVE WORKLOAD ALLOCATION USING STORAGE SYSTEM UTILIZATION PATTERNS SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 31, 2025
19278349 Cloud-Based Data Storage and Recovery System with Tiered Storage Management MOBIN, HASANUL §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jul 23, 2025
19272698 QUALIFYING FLASH STORAGE DEVICES THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING ARJOMANDI, NOOSHA §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jul 17, 2025
19271388 OPTIMIZING DATA STORAGE IN A DISTRIBUTED FLASH SYSTEM WONG, NANCI N §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 16, 2025
19259357 Threshold Computing in a Dispersed Storage Network MITIKU, BERHANU §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Jul 03, 2025
19249778 Using a Data Structure to Manage Directory-Tree Operations in File Storage KRIEGER, JONAH C 2139 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 25, 2025
19242159 UTILIZING DATA PROCESSING UNITS TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE OF AN ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE STORAGE SYSTEM CHERY, MARDOCHEE §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jun 18, 2025
19226309 Snapshot-Informed Storage Tier Selection for Storage Systems GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 03, 2025
19214218 Optimizing Storage Device Utilization Based on Background Operations MASKULINSKI, MICHAEL C §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 21, 2025
19208316 UTILIZING INCREMENTAL PARITY TO OPTIMIZE FLASH MEMORY STORAGE ROSSITER, SEAN D §102 Non-Final OA Pending May 14, 2025
19205052 Method for Using Availability Polling in a Distributed Storage System ZHAO, YU 2169 §102§103DP Final Rejection Pending May 12, 2025
19198976 Data Migration Across Different Parity Configurations Within A Unified Storage Element CARDWELL, ERIC §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 05, 2025
19192747 Storage System Configuration Generation Using A Generative Artificial Intelligence Model KHAN, MASUD K DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 29, 2025
19193237 Threat Detection and Remediation in a Distributed Computing Environment ROJAS, MIDYS DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 29, 2025
19189344 Coordinating Access To A Single-Ported Storage Device In Multi-Controller Storage Systems SUN, MICHAEL §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 25, 2025
19187730 HIERARCHICAL QUEUES IN A STORAGE SYSTEM BELKHAYAT, ZAKARIA MOHAMMED 2139 §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Apr 23, 2025
19081870 Orchestrating Storage Provisioning Policies Using Declared Storage Objectives PATEL, NIMESH G §102DP Non-Final OA Pending Mar 17, 2025
19053874 Providing Non-Volatile Storage To Cloud Computing Services CHOE, YONG J §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 14, 2025
19053323 ADAPTIVE BUFFER FOR MANAGED FLASH SYSTEM CHOI, CHARLES J §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Feb 13, 2025
19040235 Protection of Snapshots of Storage System Data Using a Dedicated Data Store GRACIA, GARY S §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 29, 2025
19039493 MANAGING DATA CONFIGURATION INFORMATION ACROSS DATA REPOSITORIES MENG, JAU SHYA 2168 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 28, 2025
19027992 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOLID STATE MEMORY REFRESH ABRAHAM, ESAW T §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 17, 2025
19023789 Managing Versioning in a Distributed Storage Network KERVEROS, DEMETRIOS C §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 16, 2025
19022598 Tiering Snapshots Across Different Storage Tiers GRULLON, FRANCISCO A 2132 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jan 15, 2025
19019767 Queueing Storage Operations DALEY, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY 2184 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 14, 2025
19020747 MODIFYING PROTOCOLS FOR MULTI-PORTED STORAGE DEVICES OF A STORAGE SYSTEM DALEY, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY 2184 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 14, 2025
19018408 Re-Encoding Data in an Expanded Storage Pool MINCEY, JERMAINE A 2159 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Jan 13, 2025
19018279 Rebuilding Encoded Data Slices via a Storage Network Processor GIARDINO JR, MARK A 2135 §112 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jan 13, 2025
19014578 Notification of an Unfavorable Access Pattern in a Storage Network KNAPP, JUSTIN R 2112 §101DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 09, 2025
19003649 COORDINATING WRITES OF DATA BETWEEN STORAGE CONTROLLERS OF A STORAGE SYSTEM CYGIEL, GARY W 2137 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 27, 2024
18987445 Optimizing Storage System Power Consumption Using Dynamic Plane Selection RUIZ, ARACELIS 2139 §103Other Final Rejection Pending Dec 19, 2024
18969853 Method and Apparatus for Using Pairwise Encryption Keys in a Distributed Storage System KNAPP, JUSTIN R 2112 §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 05, 2024
18963129 DYNAMIC CONVERSION OF MEMORY CHOI, CHARLES J 2137 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 27, 2024
18958550 OPTIMIZING VOLTAGE TUNING USING PRIOR VOLTAGE TUNING RESULTS KERVEROS, DEMETRIOS C 2111 §102DP Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Nov 25, 2024
18951383 PROTECTING AGAINST LATENT ERRORS USING INTRA-DEVICE PROTECTION DATA PERRY, VICTOR NICHOLAS 2111 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Nov 18, 2024
18950945 Security Policy Analysis And Updating Using Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) SARKER, SANCHIT K 2495 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 18, 2024
18946188 PROVIDING MULTITENANT ENCRYPTION IN A MANAGED FLASH STORAGE DEVICE STORAGE SYSTEM SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J 2137 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Nov 13, 2024
18945120 Verifying Data Integrity End-to-End in a Storage System YOON, ALEXANDER J 2135 DP Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Nov 12, 2024
18944637 End-to-End Data Integrity in a Storage System BRADEN, GRACE VICTORIA 2112 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Nov 12, 2024
18942265 Efficient Storage of a Data Object in a Storage Network KASSA, ELIZABETH §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 08, 2024
18932202 PRESERVING OBJECT VERSIONS IN BUCKET SNAPSHOTS PATEL, JIGAR P 2114 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Oct 30, 2024
18925672 COORDINATING MULTIPLE STORAGE CONTROLLERS IN A CLOUD-BASED STORAGE SYSTEM MATIN, TASNIMA 2135 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 24, 2024
18915761 Encryption of Encoded Data in a Storage Network CAREY, FORREST L 2491 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 15, 2024
18909158 Storage Network with Time-Based Storage Access HERZOG, MADHURI R 2438 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 08, 2024
18890570 OPTIMIZING DATA SEGMENT STORAGE USING DIFFERENT PROGRAMMING MODES BIRKHIMER, CHRISTOPHER D 2138 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Sep 19, 2024
18890652 UTILIZING POWER MANAGEMENT STATISTICS TO IMPROVE STORAGE SYSTEM EFFICIENCY RAHMAN, FAHMIDA 2175 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Sep 19, 2024
18888010 INTELLIGENT SCHEDULING OF OPERATIONS IN A STORAGE SYSTEM CHAN, TRACY C 2138 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 17, 2024
18882517 In-Line Data Transformations as Part of Read and Write Operations MACKALL, LARRY T 2139 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Sep 11, 2024
18828855 Transitioning Between Using Write Commands And Read Commands For Data Transfer Between Distributed Storage Systems WONG, TITUS 2181 §102§112 Final Rejection Pending Sep 09, 2024
18825359 Balancing throughput and response time quality of service SHIU, HO T 2443 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 05, 2024
18821723 Intelligent Snapshot Management MENG, JAU SHYA 2168 §102§103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Aug 30, 2024
18817926 MULTIPLE THRESHOLDS FOR MANAGING FLASH MEMORY ALSHACK, OSMAN M 2112 §101 Final Rejection 60d Pending Aug 28, 2024
18809957 Queryable Object Or File Metadata Catalog FAAL, BABOUCARR 2138 §102§103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Aug 20, 2024
18808765 Snapshots For Object Storage Buckets NGUYEN, MERILYN P 2153 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 19, 2024
18808651 Cost-Efficient Disaster Recovery Using Cloud Computing Environments FRANKLIN, RICHARD B 2181 §103 Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending Aug 19, 2024
18809094 Non-Disruptively Scaling Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Hyperscale Infrastructures CHOUDHURY, RAQIUL A 2444 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 19, 2024
18792029 Method and Apparatus for Managing Data Integrity in a Distributed Storage Network HERSHLEY, MARK E 2164 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Aug 01, 2024
18782359 Local Secret-Based Encryption Using A Remote Key Management Service PALIWAL, YOGESH 2435 §102§103DP Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Jul 24, 2024
18783327 OPTIMIZING DATA PLACEMENT FOR INCREASED STORAGE SYSTEM BANDWIDTH LOONAN, ERIC T 2137 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 24, 2024
18774010 Dynamic Interfaces Created Using Generative Artificial Intelligence NABI, REZA U 2174 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 16, 2024
18771768 Similarity-Based Proactive Support And Dynamic Optimization MEHEDI, MORSHED 2408 §102 Final Rejection 56d Pending Jul 12, 2024
18763637 Managing System Assets Using Generative Artificial Intelligence FRANKLIN, RICHARD B 2181 §101§102§103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 03, 2024
18758152 Configurable Realms To Support Multi-Tenancy For Storage Resources DINH, KHANH Q 2458 §102§103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jun 28, 2024
18670890 Performing Administrator Operations On Separate Namespaces PERUNGAVOOR, VENKATANARAY 2492 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 22, 2024
18659710 Server-Side Replication Of A File System To Cloud-Based Object Storage MENG, JAU SHYA 2161 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 09, 2024
18649020 Intelligent Scheduler for Data Backup System LEIBOVICH, YAIR 2114 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Apr 29, 2024
18647057 Multi-Party Authorization for Requests Initiated by a Storage Management System GRACIA, GARY S 2499 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2024
18638540 STORAGE SYSTEM WITH COMPONENT UPDATE FUNCTIONALITY HASAN, SYED HAROON 2154 §101§102 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Apr 17, 2024
18593745 OPTICAL SPLITTER COMPONENT LEE, JAI M 2634 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Mar 01, 2024
18593468 AUTOMATED CONFIGURATION OF MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION LAYERS OF A STORAGE SYSTEM SHOLEMAN, ABU S 2496 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 01, 2024
18587370 Using Managed Directories to Control Access to File System Content MORRIS, JOHN J 2152 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 26, 2024
18427031 Performance Improvement For Storage Devices MANOSKEY, JOSEPH D 2113 §103Other Final Rejection 54d Pending Jan 30, 2024
18397113 Transformations for Cloud-based Snapshots HARMON, COURTNEY N 2159 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 27, 2023
18514539 Data Loss Management for Cloud-Based Storage Systems GIARDINO JR, MARK A 2135 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 20, 2023
18457978 Compression Algorithm Based On Resource Availability NGUYEN, MERILYN P 2153 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 29, 2023
18446137 Application-Managed Fault Detection For Cross-Region Replicated Object Stores SCHELL, JOSEPH O 2114 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 08, 2023
18365404 UTILIZING A FRONT-END OBJECT STORE SERVICE FOR OBJECT MIGRATION MIAN, MOHAMMAD YOU A 2457 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 04, 2023
18333494 Variable Redundancy For Metadata In Storage Systems CARDWELL, ERIC 2139 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Jun 12, 2023
18324596 MIGRATING DATA FROM DISPARATE OBJECT STORAGE ENVIRONMENTS MCQUITERY, DIEDRA M 2166 §103§112 Final Rejection 37d overdue Pending May 26, 2023
18192335 Managing Correlated Outages in a Dispersed Storage Network DARE, RYAN A 2132 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 29, 2023
18190915 Efficient Replication Based On Dataset Versioning BAROT, BHARAT 2453 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 27, 2023
18158264 Balancing Data Transfer Amongst Paths Between A Host and A Storage System UNELUS, ERNEST 2181 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 23, 2023
17816928 Selecting a Processing Unit Based on a Data Type of an Access Request THAMMAVONG, PRASITH 2137 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Aug 02, 2022
17877979 Software Lifecycle Management For A Storage System UNELUS, ERNEST 2181 §101§102 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 31, 2022
17853820 DIFFERING ERASURE CODING SCHEMES WITH NON-UNIFORM STORAGE SIZES WU, STEPHANIE 2133 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 29, 2022
17712841 MAPPING IN A STORAGE SYSTEM WASSUM, LUKE S 3992 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 04, 2022
17585991 HYBRID CASCADED SORTING PIPELINE CALDWELL, ANDREW T 2182 §101§102§103§112 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Jan 27, 2022
17514702 Snapshot-Based Hydration Of A Cloud-Based Storage System LIN, ALLEN S 2153 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 29, 2021
17501391 Configuring And Maintaining An Environment Using Configuration Templates AKBARI, FARAZ TIMA 2196 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 14, 2021
17487208 Providing Data Services During Migration BHUYAN, MOHAMMAD SOLAIMAN 2168 §103DP Final Rejection Pending Sep 28, 2021
17487778 Migrating Data In And Out Of Cloud Environments BHUYAN, MOHAMMAD SOLAIMAN 2168 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 28, 2021
17306025 Optimizing Data Write Size Using Storage Device Geometry KWONG, EDMUND H 2137 §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending May 03, 2021

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