Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Rubrik Inc.

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security

31 pending office actions • 19 art units • 31 examiners • 0 of 31 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 99 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Rubrik Inc. currently has 31 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These 31 pending office actions are handled by 31 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for a single case. The portfolio is distributed across 19 distinct art units, suggesting a wide range of technical focuses. MENG, JAU SHYA is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.

The 31 distinct examiners involved provide a broad base of individual perspectives for the 31 pending office actions. This distribution across 19 distinct art units requires the company to adapt to many different examination styles within Computing & Software. MENG, JAU SHYA, with 1 pending office action, holds the same workload as every other examiner in this portfolio. Practitioners should monitor the 31 pending office actions for consistency across the 19 distinct art units.

The 19 distinct art units represent a significant variety of technical examination standards that the company must meet. With 31 pending office actions and 31 distinct examiners, the prosecution is perfectly decentralized. MENG, JAU SHYA is identified as the busiest examiner despite only having 1 pending office action, reflecting the even distribution of work across the 31 distinct examiners.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

31
Total Pending OAs
24
Non-Final OAs
7
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.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
2
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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.

12
Hard (39%)
12
Medium (39%)
7
Easy (23%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (6%)
§101 + other3 (10%)
§103 only11 (35%)
§112 only1 (3%)
Double-patenting only6 (19%)
Double-patenting + other1 (3%)
Multi-statute (no §101)7 (23%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
21
Information Tech
68% of docket
1
Communications
3% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
9
Business / Other
29% 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.

310 h
Manual time on pending OAs
62 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
108 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MENG, JAU SHYA 1 79.3% +33.9%
BLUST, JASON W 1 79.3% +14.9%
GORTAYO, DANGELINO N 1 78.6% +29.6%
LE, MIRANDA 1 74.9% +77.3%
OBISESAN, AUGUSTINE KUNLE 1 63.6% +20.8%
BUTLER, SARAI E 1 88.1% +10.7%
MCNALLY, MICHAEL S 1 89.9% +8.7%
MACKALL, LARRY T 1 85.2% +8.0%
MOORTHY, ARAVIND K 1 84.5% +12.2%
NGUYEN, MERILYN P 1 87.2% +5.1%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19289678 PARTIAL DATABASE RESTORATION BUTLER, SARAI E —
19286077 QUARANTINING INFORMATION IN BACKUP LOCATIONS MCNALLY, MICHAEL S —
19278157 TECHNIQUES FOR ACCELERATED DATA RECOVERY MACKALL, LARRY T —
19276222 IDENTIFIER MAPPING TECHNIQUES FOR CROSS NODE CONSISTENCY MOORTHY, ARAVIND K —
19258730 BATCH CONSOLIDATION OF COMPUTING OBJECT SNAPSHOTS NGUYEN, MERILYN P —

Hard Cases (12)

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
17979673 MALWARE IDENTITY IDENTIFICATION FARAMARZI, GITA 28d overdue
18169606 RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR MULTI-PRODUCT AND MULTI-HOMED SYSTEMS GHAFFARI, ABU Z 19d overdue
18677591 PROTECTING DATABASE AGAINST POTENTIALLY HARMFUL QUERIES CHBOUKI, TAREK 34d
19303175 DATABASE RECOVERY TIME OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION WITH SYNTHETIC SNAPSHOTS LE, MIRANDA —
19242538 TECHNIQUES FOR SOURCE-SIDE METADATA ENRICHMENT WILSON, KIMBERLY LOVEL —
19033389 DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES USING DYNAMIC AND STATIC CLOUD COMPUTING RESOURCES HUANG, BRYAN PAI SONG —
19009857 DYNAMIC DATA ACCESS OBJECTS FOR DATA BACKUP AND RECOVERY SKHOUN, HICHAM —
18916401 STORAGE ENVIRONMENT ACCESS PERMISSION NORMALIZATION LEUNG, ROBERT B —

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19335825 AUTOMATED DISCOVERY OF DATABASES MENG, JAU SHYA —
19307990 APPLICATION-AWARE ADAPTIVE SHARDING FOR DATA BACKUP BLUST, JASON W —
19303177 WORKLOAD INSPIRED INPUT SELECTION OF DATABASES FOR RESHARDING GORTAYO, DANGELINO N —
19303175 DATABASE RECOVERY TIME OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION WITH SYNTHETIC SNAPSHOTS LE, MIRANDA —
19292760 ACCESS AUTHORIZATION FOR AUDIT INFORMATION IN A MULTI-TENANCY DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OBISESAN, AUGUSTINE KUNLE —
19289678 PARTIAL DATABASE RESTORATION BUTLER, SARAI E —
19276222 IDENTIFIER MAPPING TECHNIQUES FOR CROSS NODE CONSISTENCY MOORTHY, ARAVIND K —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2165 2
2195 2
2495 2
2168 1
2153 1
2161 1
2199 1
2114 1
2164 1
2431 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19335825 AUTOMATED DISCOVERY OF DATABASES MENG, JAU SHYA 2168 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 22, 2025
19307990 APPLICATION-AWARE ADAPTIVE SHARDING FOR DATA BACKUP BLUST, JASON W — DP Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 22, 2025
19303177 WORKLOAD INSPIRED INPUT SELECTION OF DATABASES FOR RESHARDING GORTAYO, DANGELINO N — §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 18, 2025
19303175 DATABASE RECOVERY TIME OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION WITH SYNTHETIC SNAPSHOTS LE, MIRANDA 2153 §101§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 18, 2025
19292760 ACCESS AUTHORIZATION FOR AUDIT INFORMATION IN A MULTI-TENANCY DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OBISESAN, AUGUSTINE KUNLE — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 06, 2025
19289678 PARTIAL DATABASE RESTORATION BUTLER, SARAI E — DP Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 04, 2025
19286077 QUARANTINING INFORMATION IN BACKUP LOCATIONS MCNALLY, MICHAEL S — DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 30, 2025
19278157 TECHNIQUES FOR ACCELERATED DATA RECOVERY MACKALL, LARRY T — DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 23, 2025
19276222 IDENTIFIER MAPPING TECHNIQUES FOR CROSS NODE CONSISTENCY MOORTHY, ARAVIND K — §112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 22, 2025
19258730 BATCH CONSOLIDATION OF COMPUTING OBJECT SNAPSHOTS NGUYEN, MERILYN P 2161 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 02, 2025
19242538 TECHNIQUES FOR SOURCE-SIDE METADATA ENRICHMENT WILSON, KIMBERLY LOVEL 2165 §101Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 18, 2025
19087225 CONTAINER BASED APPLICATION REIFICATION HEBERT, THEODORE E 2199 §103Other Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2025
19033389 DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES USING DYNAMIC AND STATIC CLOUD COMPUTING RESOURCES HUANG, BRYAN PAI SONG 2114 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 21, 2025
19009857 DYNAMIC DATA ACCESS OBJECTS FOR DATA BACKUP AND RECOVERY SKHOUN, HICHAM 2164 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 03, 2025
18938060 ANOMALY AND RANSOMWARE DETECTION VO, ETHAN VIET 2431 §112 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Nov 05, 2024
18916401 STORAGE ENVIRONMENT ACCESS PERMISSION NORMALIZATION LEUNG, ROBERT B 2494 §101§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 15, 2024
18903910 EVENT-BASED DATA SYNCHRONIZATION SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM 2166 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 01, 2024
18679070 JOB SCHEDULING FOR A DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS BASED ON JOB GROUPS MILLS, PAUL V — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 30, 2024
18677751 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROTECTION AGAINST EMBEDDING INVERSION ATTACK IN RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION VAUGHN, RYAN C — §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 29, 2024
18677591 PROTECTING DATABASE AGAINST POTENTIALLY HARMFUL QUERIES CHBOUKI, TAREK 2165 §102§103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending May 29, 2024
18674221 PRECHECKING FOR NON-DISRUPTIVE UPDATE OF A DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MOSER, BRUCE M 2154 §101 Final Rejection — Pending May 24, 2024
18528650 SESSION HANDLERS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMMUNICATIONS YAMAMOTO, JOSEPH JEREMY 2656 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 04, 2023
18339188 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND STORAGE MEDIA FOR ABSTRACTING SESSION INFORMATION FOR AN APPLICATION IN AN IDENTITY INFRASTRUCTURE GOODARZI, NASSER MOAZZAMI 2400 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 21, 2023
18319110 DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE CONTROLLERS FOR CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE WU, BENJAMIN C 2195 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 17, 2023
18128191 USER MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-TENANT DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM LE, CANH 2439 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 29, 2023
18187188 MULTI-TENANCY AUTHORIZATION FRAMEWORK FOR HIERARCHICAL RESOURCES OF A DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BAZNA, JUDY 2495 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2023
18169606 RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR MULTI-PRODUCT AND MULTI-HOMED SYSTEMS GHAFFARI, ABU Z 2195 §103§112 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2023
18095374 INTERCEPTING AND SECURING BACKUP TRAFFIC MAYE, AYUB A 2436 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2023
17979673 MALWARE IDENTITY IDENTIFICATION FARAMARZI, GITA 2496 §103§112 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Nov 02, 2022
17693002 DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT OF VERSION DEPENDENCIES FOR EXECUTING PARALLEL WORKLOADS YUN, CARINA 2194 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 11, 2022
17162193 REAL-TIME CLOUD DATA STREAMING OLAEGBE, MUDASIRU K 2495 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Jan 29, 2021

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