Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sailpoint Technologies Inc. is currently prosecuting 9 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are distributed across 7 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's innovations touch upon many different sub-specialties within the networking field. The involvement of 9 distinct examiners for 9 pending office actions means that every active case is being reviewed by a different individual.
ANKRUM, ALEC CHRISTOPHER is identified as the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because each of the 9 pending office actions is assigned to one of the 9 distinct examiners, there is no examiner concentration in this portfolio. This lack of overlap requires the applicant to manage 9 separate examiner relationships and sets of expectations across the 7 distinct art units.
The high number of art units relative to the total actions indicates a broad spread of subject matter. With 7 distinct art units involved, practitioners must be prepared for diverse procedural standards. Since no examiner is handling more than 1 busiest examiner pending action, the prosecution strategy must be highly individualized for each of the 9 pending office actions to account for the unique perspectives of the 9 distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 3 (33%) |
| §103 only | 4 (44%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANKRUM, ALEC CHRISTOPHER | 1 | — | — |
| STEINLE, ANDREW J | 1 | 87.6% | +19.4% |
| MCFARLAND-BARNES, KELAH JANAE | 1 | 80.0% | +8.3% |
| ZARKA, DAVID PETER | 1 | 82.4% | +13.9% |
| OBAID, HAMZEH M | 1 | 38.3% | +22.4% |
| HAILU, TESHOME | 1 | 78.2% | +23.5% |
| CHANG, TOM Y | 1 | 53.4% | +20.0% |
| ZENG, WENWEI | 1 | — | — |
| SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N | 1 | 6.3% | +8.3% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18914179 | Interactive Security Orchestration | STEINLE, ANDREW J | 19d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18617706 | Web Page Password Capture and Evaluation | ZARKA, DAVID PETER | 22d overdue |
| 18303425 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE OF GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS IN IDENTITY MANAGEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS | ZENG, WENWEI | 5d overdue |
| 18468454 | COLLUSION DETECTION USING MACHINE LEARNING AND SEPARATION OF DUTIES (SOD) RULES | OBAID, HAMZEH M | 14d |
| 18888709 | System and Method for Automated Generation of Access Descriptions for Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) | MCFARLAND-BARNES, KELAH JANAE | — |
| 18077644 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYSTEM-WIDE GRANULAR ACCESS RISK MANAGEMENT | SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18617706 | Web Page Password Capture and Evaluation | ZARKA, DAVID PETER | 22d overdue |
| 18914179 | Interactive Security Orchestration | STEINLE, ANDREW J | 19d overdue |
| 18468454 | COLLUSION DETECTION USING MACHINE LEARNING AND SEPARATION OF DUTIES (SOD) RULES | OBAID, HAMZEH M | 14d |
| 18241662 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION TO PROVIDE ADAPTIVE ACCESS TO RESOURCES | HAILU, TESHOME | — |
| 18456560 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF COMMON OR UNIQUE ACCESS ITEMS IN IDENTITY MANAGEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS | CHANG, TOM Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2434 | 2 |
| 3624 | 2 |
| 2497 | 1 |
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2449 | 1 |
| 2455 | 1 |
| 2146 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18915395 | File operation policy enforcement | ANKRUM, ALEC CHRISTOPHER | 2434 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18914179 | Interactive Security Orchestration | STEINLE, ANDREW J | 2497 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Oct 13, 2024 |
| 18888709 | System and Method for Automated Generation of Access Descriptions for Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) | MCFARLAND-BARNES, KELAH JANAE | 2431 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18617706 | Web Page Password Capture and Evaluation | ZARKA, DAVID PETER | 2449 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18468454 | COLLUSION DETECTION USING MACHINE LEARNING AND SEPARATION OF DUTIES (SOD) RULES | OBAID, HAMZEH M | 3624 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18241662 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION TO PROVIDE ADAPTIVE ACCESS TO RESOURCES | HAILU, TESHOME | 2434 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18456560 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF COMMON OR UNIQUE ACCESS ITEMS IN IDENTITY MANAGEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS | CHANG, TOM Y | 2455 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 18303425 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE OF GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS IN IDENTITY MANAGEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS | ZENG, WENWEI | 2146 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
| 18077644 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYSTEM-WIDE GRANULAR ACCESS RISK MANAGEMENT | SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
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