Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Networking & Security
19 pending office actions • 18 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 77 patents granted in the last 365 days
Seagate Technology LLC has 19 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The matters involve 18 distinct examiners and 18 distinct art units, showing nearly one-to-one distribution across the listed examination assignments.
KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN is the busiest identified examiner, with 2 pending matters. The profile indicates that most prosecution activity is dispersed rather than concentrated around one examiner or art unit. Counsel may therefore emphasize application-specific preparation, supported by centralized docket controls and technical guidance for consistent treatment of networking and security concepts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 (16%) |
| §103 only | 6 (32%) |
| §102 only | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (42%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (5%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | 2 | 71.0% | +38.5% |
| HINDI, NABIL Z | 1 | 87.4% | +8.9% |
| DOAN, KHOA D | 1 | 90.1% | +7.5% |
| LARSON, JOHN MICHAEL | 1 | 66.7% | +66.7% |
| FEREJA, SAMUEL D | 1 | 75.0% | +10.1% |
| QIAN, SHIZHI | 1 | 62.0% | +46.2% |
| LOONAN, ERIC T | 1 | 65.0% | +26.9% |
| ULLAH, SHARIF E | 1 | 84.8% | +21.2% |
| CHAU, LINDA N | 1 | 44.7% | +15.8% |
| WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1 | 66.7% | +68.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19399110 | MAGNETIC STACK, AND RELATED DATA STORAGE DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | HINDI, NABIL Z | — |
| 19268696 | WEAR LEVELING AND GROUPING OF DRIVES BASED ON POSITION IN CHASSIS | DOAN, KHOA D | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18759635 | PROTOCOL BETWEEN SYSTEMS AND DRIVES FOR CAPACITY MANAGEMENT | LOONAN, ERIC T | 25d overdue |
| 18759321 | DISTRIBUTED MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION CODES FOR MULTIPLE PARTIES | ULLAH, SHARIF E | 8d overdue |
| 17657404 | METHOD FOR MAKING A THERMALLY-STABILIZED PLASMONIC ALLOY FEATURE OF A HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD NEAR-FIELD TRANSDUCER | ANDERSON, JOSHUA D | 4d overdue |
| 18601622 | FOAM HEAT SINKS USED IN IMMERSION COOLING SYSTEMS | FENG, ZHENGFU J | 16d |
| 19069062 | POLYNOMIAL FUNCTION SECRET SHARING | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | — |
| 18938618 | CHAMFER FORMATION ON DATA STORAGE DISC SUBSTRATES | LARSON, JOHN MICHAEL | — |
| 18621042 | MICROFLUIDIC METHODS | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | — |
| 18603512 | PCSELS FOR OPTICAL NEURAL NETWORKS/PHOTONIC COMPUTING/NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING | RAMESH, TIRUMALE K | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18929292 | VIDEO SURVEILLANCE NETWORK USING INTER-FRAME COMPRESSION | FEREJA, SAMUEL D | 140d overdue |
| 18759635 | PROTOCOL BETWEEN SYSTEMS AND DRIVES FOR CAPACITY MANAGEMENT | LOONAN, ERIC T | 25d overdue |
| 18759321 | DISTRIBUTED MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION CODES FOR MULTIPLE PARTIES | ULLAH, SHARIF E | 8d overdue |
| 19069062 | POLYNOMIAL FUNCTION SECRET SHARING | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | — |
| 18938618 | CHAMFER FORMATION ON DATA STORAGE DISC SUBSTRATES | LARSON, JOHN MICHAEL | — |
| 18919087 | EWOD DEVICE WITH PARTICLE-EMBEDDED POLYMER COATING | QIAN, SHIZHI | — |
| 18742990 | EVOLVING THRESHOLD FUNCTION SECRET SHARING | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | — |
| 18623145 | DATA STORAGE MEDIUM WITH MAGNETOCALORIC LAYER | CHAU, LINDA N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2492 | 2 |
| 2688 | 1 |
| 2133 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 2487 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 2137 | 1 |
| 2495 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19399110 | MAGNETIC STACK, AND RELATED DATA STORAGE DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | HINDI, NABIL Z | 2688 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 24, 2025 |
| 19268696 | WEAR LEVELING AND GROUPING OF DRIVES BASED ON POSITION IN CHASSIS | DOAN, KHOA D | 2133 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 19069062 | POLYNOMIAL FUNCTION SECRET SHARING | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | 2492 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 18938618 | CHAMFER FORMATION ON DATA STORAGE DISC SUBSTRATES | LARSON, JOHN MICHAEL | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18929292 | VIDEO SURVEILLANCE NETWORK USING INTER-FRAME COMPRESSION | FEREJA, SAMUEL D | 2487 | §103 | Final Rejection | 140d overdue | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18919087 | EWOD DEVICE WITH PARTICLE-EMBEDDED POLYMER COATING | QIAN, SHIZHI | 1795 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18759635 | PROTOCOL BETWEEN SYSTEMS AND DRIVES FOR CAPACITY MANAGEMENT | LOONAN, ERIC T | 2137 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18759321 | DISTRIBUTED MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION CODES FOR MULTIPLE PARTIES | ULLAH, SHARIF E | 2495 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18742990 | EVOLVING THRESHOLD FUNCTION SECRET SHARING | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | 2492 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18623145 | DATA STORAGE MEDIUM WITH MAGNETOCALORIC LAYER | CHAU, LINDA N | 1785 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18621042 | MICROFLUIDIC METHODS | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1798 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18603512 | PCSELS FOR OPTICAL NEURAL NETWORKS/PHOTONIC COMPUTING/NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING | RAMESH, TIRUMALE K | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18601622 | FOAM HEAT SINKS USED IN IMMERSION COOLING SYSTEMS | FENG, ZHENGFU J | 2835 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18600962 | SELECTIVE ABSORPTION FILTERS FOR OIL-BASED IMMERSION COOLING | HE, QIANPING | 1776 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18505287 | PROCESS FOR HIGH DENSITY SOLDER INTERCONNECT | TRAN, TIFFANY T | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 17844278 | SYNTHETIC DATA STORAGE SYSTEM BASED ON ATTRIBUTES OF ARECACEAE | BUNKER, AMY M | 1684 | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2022 |
| 17657404 | METHOD FOR MAKING A THERMALLY-STABILIZED PLASMONIC ALLOY FEATURE OF A HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD NEAR-FIELD TRANSDUCER | ANDERSON, JOSHUA D | 3729 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 31, 2022 |
| 17565696 | SEGMENTATION AND LABELING FOR SINGLE MOLECULE SEQUENCING | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | 1687 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2021 |
| 17084940 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL FERROELECTRIC MEMORY | FOX, BRANDON C | 2818 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 86d overdue | Pending | Oct 30, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialSeagate Technology LLC has 19 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 18 art units and 18 examiners.
Shadi Hassan Kobrosli has the most, with 2 of Seagate Technology LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
