Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
17 pending office actions • 12 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 74 patents granted in the last 365 days
Seagate Technology LLC has 16 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These actions are assigned to 15 distinct examiners across 11 distinct art units. KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN is the busiest examiner with 2 busiest examiner pending actions. The 11 distinct art units indicate that the company's networking and security filings are reviewed by many specialized groups.
With 15 distinct examiners for the 16 pending office actions, almost every application is being reviewed by a different person. This high ratio of examiners to pending actions suggests a diverse prosecution experience across the 11 distinct art units. The 2 busiest examiner pending actions assigned to KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN represent a portion of the 16 pending office actions. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of each examiner to ensure successful outcomes.
The 11 distinct art units suggest that the portfolio touches on many specialized groups within the USPTO. Managing 16 pending office actions across these units requires an understanding of the specific technical standards applied by each group. Because the 15 distinct examiners are spread across 11 distinct art units, there is significant variety in the technical scrutiny applied to the applications. This structure requires a strategy that accounts for both individual examiner preferences and art unit trends.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 (18%) |
| §103 only | 5 (29%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (41%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (6%) |
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 | 71.1% | +36.9% |
| HINDI, NABIL Z | 1 | 87.4% | +8.9% |
| DOAN, KHOA D | 1 | 89.9% | +7.7% |
| FEREJA, SAMUEL D | 1 | 74.8% | +10.5% |
| ULLAH, SHARIF E | 1 | 84.7% | +21.5% |
| LOONAN, ERIC T | 1 | 64.8% | +27.1% |
| KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 1 | 70.0% | +50.0% |
| WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1 | 66.7% | +68.5% |
| RAMESH, TIRUMALE K | 1 | 26.5% | +23.7% |
| FENG, ZHENGFU J | 1 | 75.5% | +39.0% |
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 | — |
| 18621042 | MICROFLUIDIC METHODS | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | — |
| 18603512 | PCSELS FOR OPTICAL NEURAL NETWORKS/PHOTONIC COMPUTING/NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING | RAMESH, TIRUMALE K | — |
| 18600962 | SELECTIVE ABSORPTION FILTERS FOR OIL-BASED IMMERSION COOLING | HE, QIANPING | — |
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 |
| 18747717 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING AN ADSORBENT COMPOSITION, AND RELATED ARTICLES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 4d overdue |
| 18601622 | FOAM HEAT SINKS USED IN IMMERSION COOLING SYSTEMS | FENG, ZHENGFU J | 16d |
| 19069062 | POLYNOMIAL FUNCTION SECRET SHARING | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | — |
| 18742990 | EVOLVING THRESHOLD FUNCTION SECRET SHARING | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | — |
| 18621042 | MICROFLUIDIC METHODS | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 2 |
| 2487 | 1 |
| 2495 | 1 |
| 2137 | 1 |
| 2492 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2835 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 1684 | 1 |
| 3729 | 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 | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 19069062 | POLYNOMIAL FUNCTION SECRET SHARING | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | — | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 18929292 | VIDEO SURVEILLANCE NETWORK USING INTER-FRAME COMPRESSION | FEREJA, SAMUEL D | 2487 | §103 | Final Rejection | 140d overdue | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18759321 | DISTRIBUTED MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION CODES FOR MULTIPLE PARTIES | ULLAH, SHARIF E | 2495 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 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 |
| 18747717 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING AN ADSORBENT COMPOSITION, AND RELATED ARTICLES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 2688 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18742990 | EVOLVING THRESHOLD FUNCTION SECRET SHARING | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | 2492 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18621042 | MICROFLUIDIC METHODS | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | — | §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 | — | §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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