Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Rubrik Inc.

24 pending office actions • 17 art units • 23 examiners • 0 of 24 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 112 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

24
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
15
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 24 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
1
Due this week
8
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. 24 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (8)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.

1
Hard (4%)
19
Medium (79%)
2
Easy (8%)
2
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (4%)
§103 only18 (75%)
§102 only1 (4%)
§112 only2 (8%)
No statute on record2 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
24
Information Tech
100% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

240 h
Manual time on pending OAs
48 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
84 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GHAFFARI, ABU Z 2 79.0% +46.9%
HEBERT, THEODORE E 1 73.9% +14.4%
MITIKU, BERHANU 1 54.9% +28.3%
WONG, NANCI N 1 87.1% +22.3%
SYED, FARHAN M 1 75.0% +23.3%
VO, ETHAN VIET 1 73.4% +32.4%
AHMED, ZUBAIR 1 68.3% +3.8%
LE, KHOI V 1 90.0% +35.5%
CHBOUKI, TAREK 1 81.2% +24.0%
HOANG, KEN 1 72.3% +31.6%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18677591 PROTECTING DATABASE AGAINST POTENTIALLY HARMFUL QUERIES CHBOUKI, TAREK 34d

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
18790378 VERIFYING DATA OBJECT VERSIONS USING AUTHENTICATION CODE LE, KHOI V 26d

Interview Candidates (10)

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
19087225 CONTAINER BASED APPLICATION REIFICATION HEBERT, THEODORE E 26d overdue
18169606 RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR MULTI-PRODUCT AND MULTI-HOMED SYSTEMS GHAFFARI, ABU Z 19d overdue
19040682 INLINE SNAPSHOT DEDUPLICATION WONG, NANCI N 5d overdue
18981360 INDEPENDENT OBJECT DATA BACKUP BETWEEN CLUSTERS SYED, FARHAN M 5d
18790378 VERIFYING DATA OBJECT VERSIONS USING AUTHENTICATION CODE LE, KHOI V 26d
18124547 MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE RESOURCE ASSIGNMENT TECHNIQUES FOR MULTI-TENANT DATA MANAGEMENT GHAFFARI, ABU Z 29d
18620729 BACKUP MANAGEMENT OF OPERATION LOGS FOR NON-RELATIONAL DATABASES HOANG, KEN 30d
19041194 USE OF BACKUP DATA FOR RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION MITIKU, BERHANU 34d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2195 3
2436 2
2168 2
2439 2
2495 2
2496 2
2199 1
2156 1
2137 1
2161 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19087225 CONTAINER BASED APPLICATION REIFICATION HEBERT, THEODORE E 2199 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2025
19041194 USE OF BACKUP DATA FOR RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION MITIKU, BERHANU 2156 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jan 30, 2025
19040682 INLINE SNAPSHOT DEDUPLICATION WONG, NANCI N 2137 Other Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jan 29, 2025
18981360 INDEPENDENT OBJECT DATA BACKUP BETWEEN CLUSTERS SYED, FARHAN M 2161 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Dec 13, 2024
18938060 ANOMALY AND RANSOMWARE DETECTION VO, ETHAN VIET 2431 §112 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Nov 05, 2024
18930710 HYBRID DATA TRANSFER MODEL FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE BACKUP AND RECOVERY AHMED, ZUBAIR 2132 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Oct 29, 2024
18790378 VERIFYING DATA OBJECT VERSIONS USING AUTHENTICATION CODE LE, KHOI V 2436 §101 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jul 31, 2024
18677591 PROTECTING DATABASE AGAINST POTENTIALLY HARMFUL QUERIES CHBOUKI, TAREK 2165 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending May 29, 2024
18620729 BACKUP MANAGEMENT OF OPERATION LOGS FOR NON-RELATIONAL DATABASES HOANG, KEN 2168 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Mar 28, 2024
18616054 BACKUP TECHNIQUES FOR NON-RELATIONAL METADATA SADLER, NATHAN 2139 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Mar 25, 2024
18517941 ONLINE DATA FORMAT CONVERSION GORNEY, BORIS 2154 §102 Final Rejection 15d Pending Nov 22, 2023
18385275 QUORUM-BASED AUTHORIZATION TECHNIQUES WANG, HARRIS C 2439 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Oct 30, 2023
18187188 MULTI-TENANCY AUTHORIZATION FRAMEWORK FOR HIERARCHICAL RESOURCES OF A DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BAZNA, JUDY 2495 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2023
18124553 ROLE-BASED ACCESS CONTROL FOR HIERARCHICAL RESOURCES OF A DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM KABIR, JAHANGIR 2439 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Mar 21, 2023
18124547 MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE RESOURCE ASSIGNMENT TECHNIQUES FOR MULTI-TENANT DATA MANAGEMENT GHAFFARI, ABU Z 2195 §112 Final Rejection 29d Pending Mar 21, 2023
18115758 ERROR DEDUPLICATION AND REPORTING FOR A DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BASED ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING OF ERROR MESSAGES HICKS, SHIRLEY D. 2168 §103 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Feb 28, 2023
18169606 RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR MULTI-PRODUCT AND MULTI-HOMED SYSTEMS GHAFFARI, ABU Z 2195 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2023
18097218 CHANGE BLOCK TRACKING FOR TRANSFER OF DATA FOR BACKUPS ORTIZ DITREN, BELIX M 2164 Other Non-Final OA 13d Pending Jan 14, 2023
18095374 INTERCEPTING AND SECURING BACKUP TRAFFIC MAYE, AYUB A 2436 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2023
18095391 MALWARE DETECTION ON ENCRYPTED DATA KIM, EUI H 2453 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2023
17979673 MALWARE IDENTITY IDENTIFICATION FARAMARZI, GITA 2496 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Nov 02, 2022
17972345 MANAGEMENT OF DUPLICATIVE VIRTUAL MACHINE ENTRIES FOR A DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SUN, ANDREW NMN 2195 §103 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2022
17214185 FILE CONTENT ANALYSIS AND DATA MANAGEMENT ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR 2496 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Mar 26, 2021
17162193 REAL-TIME CLOUD DATA STREAMING OLAEGBE, MUDASIRU K 2495 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Jan 29, 2021

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