Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Snowflake Inc.

36 pending office actions • 21 art units • 34 examiners • 1 of 36 (3%) have an AI response strategy ready • 108 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

36
Total Pending OAs
19
Non-Final OAs
17
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 36 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

22
Overdue
0
Due this week
10
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 36 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (22)Due ≤ 30 days (10)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (3)

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.

2
Hard (6%)
29
Medium (81%)
2
Easy (6%)
3
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (6%)
§103 only25 (69%)
§102 only4 (11%)
§112 only2 (6%)
No statute on record3 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
36
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.

360 h
Manual time on pending OAs
72 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
126 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GOFMAN, ALEX N 2 68.7% +24.6%
HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM 2 80.2% +12.6%
MENG, JAU SHYA 1 79.0% +34.8%
BULLOCK, JOSHUA 1 82.4% +16.4%
BARTLETT, WILLIAM P 1 61.2% +29.8%
PHAM, KHANH B 1 72.3% +15.4%
MORRIS, JOHN J 1 60.9% +19.7%
ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S 1 66.8% +26.1%
PHAM, TUAN A 1 83.6% +27.1%
AGHARAHIMI, FARHAD 1 70.5% +14.5%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18746644 JOIN ELIMINATION HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM 163d overdue
19173697 QUERY-BASED DATABASE REDACTION BULLOCK, JOSHUA 28d overdue
18987523 ACTIVE INVALIDATION OF METADATA CACHE ENTRIES PHAM, TUAN A 8d
18776918 JOIN CONSTRAINTS FOR QUERY PROCESSING HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM 26d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18490586 REAL-TIME FEATURE STORE IN A DATABASE SYSTEM MAY, ROBERT F 86d overdue
18635678 AUTOMATIC DATA CLASSIFICATION MOSER, BRUCE M 61d

Interview Candidates (12)

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
18746644 JOIN ELIMINATION HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM 163d overdue
18775830 CATALOG QUERY FRAMEWORK ON DISTRIBUTED KEY VALUE STORE GOFMAN, ALEX N 145d overdue
18800912 QUERY PLANS FOR ANALYTIC SQL CONSTRUCTS GOFMAN, ALEX N 112d overdue
19021001 SEARCH IN A DATA MARKETPLACE ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S 60d overdue
18955789 QUERY EXECUTION USING INTERMEDIATE MATERIALIZED TABLES AGHARAHIMI, FARHAD 30d overdue
19173697 QUERY-BASED DATABASE REDACTION BULLOCK, JOSHUA 28d overdue
19031161 REPLICATION OF DYNAMIC TABLES PHAM, KHANH B 10d overdue
18987523 ACTIVE INVALIDATION OF METADATA CACHE ENTRIES PHAM, TUAN A 8d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2166 4
2163 4
2169 3
2154 3
2168 2
2153 2
2152 2
2495 2
2164 2
2161 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19205210 UNIFIED STRUCTURED AND SEMI-STRUCTURED DATA TYPES IN DATABASE SYSTEMS MENG, JAU SHYA 2168 §103 Non-Final OA 27d AI Ready May 12, 2025
19173697 QUERY-BASED DATABASE REDACTION BULLOCK, JOSHUA 2153 §102 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2025
19094721 MULTI-CLUSTER WAREHOUSE BARTLETT, WILLIAM P 2169 Other Non-Final OA 16d Pending Mar 28, 2025
19031161 REPLICATION OF DYNAMIC TABLES PHAM, KHANH B 2166 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2025
19025658 ZERO-COPY CLONE OF DYNAMIC TABLES MORRIS, JOHN J 2152 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Jan 16, 2025
19021001 SEARCH IN A DATA MARKETPLACE ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S 2154 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jan 14, 2025
18987523 ACTIVE INVALIDATION OF METADATA CACHE ENTRIES PHAM, TUAN A 2163 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Dec 19, 2024
18955789 QUERY EXECUTION USING INTERMEDIATE MATERIALIZED TABLES AGHARAHIMI, FARHAD 2161 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2024
18810750 SIMILARITY-BASED LISTING RECOMMENDATIONS IN A DATA EXCHANGE VU, BAI DUC 2163 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Aug 21, 2024
18800912 QUERY PLANS FOR ANALYTIC SQL CONSTRUCTS GOFMAN, ALEX N 2163 §103 Final Rejection 112d overdue Pending Aug 12, 2024
18790664 ONLINE INDEX CREATION FOR MULTI-VERSION DATABASE WITHOUT TABLE LOCKS BAKER, IRENE H 2152 §103 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2024
18776918 JOIN CONSTRAINTS FOR QUERY PROCESSING HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM 2166 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jul 18, 2024
18775830 CATALOG QUERY FRAMEWORK ON DISTRIBUTED KEY VALUE STORE GOFMAN, ALEX N 2163 §103 Final Rejection 145d overdue Pending Jul 17, 2024
18763971 SIGNING MESSAGES USING PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY AND CERTIFICATE VERIFICATION TSANG, HENRY 2495 §103 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Jul 03, 2024
18746644 JOIN ELIMINATION HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM 2166 §103 Final Rejection 163d overdue Pending Jun 18, 2024
18737362 LOGGING FROM USER-DEFINED FUNCTIONS LI, MENG 2437 Other Non-Final OA 149d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2024
18668624 QUERY GENERATION BASED ON NATURAL LANGUAGE REQUEST AND SCHEMA-RELATED CONTEXT DATA SKHOUN, HICHAM 2164 §103 Final Rejection 77d overdue Pending May 20, 2024
18651501 ENTITY-LEVEL PRIVACY IN AGGREGATION CONSTRAINTS JOO, JOSHUA 2445 §102 Final Rejection 12d Pending Apr 30, 2024
18651570 QUERY PROCESSING IN A SECURE DATA CLEAN ROOM JOHNSON, CARLTON 2436 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Apr 30, 2024
18637833 REMOTE DEPLOYMENT REPLICATION USING A PLURALITY OF DATA OBJECTS TRUONG, CAM Y T 2169 §103 Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending Apr 17, 2024
18635678 AUTOMATIC DATA CLASSIFICATION MOSER, BRUCE M 2154 §101 Final Rejection 61d Pending Apr 15, 2024
18630916 UPGRADING APPLICATIONS WITH SERVICES ST LEGER, GEOFFREY R 2192 §112 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Apr 09, 2024
18622361 MANAGING DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY ON DATABASE SYSTEM USING POLICIES ZHU, ZHIMEI 2495 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Mar 29, 2024
18619649 DATA CLEANROOM COLLABORATIONS CONTROL AND MEMBERSHIP RESTRICTIONS STRAUB, D'ARCY WINSTON 2491 §102 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2024
18618273 REGRESSION MITIGATION USING MULTIPLE STORED PROCEDURES ZECHER, CORDELIA P K 2114 Other Non-Final OA 113d overdue Pending Mar 27, 2024
18599647 EXPORT DATA FROM TABLES INTO PARTITIONED FOLDERS ON AN EXTERNAL DATA LAKE FERRER, JEDIDIAH P 2153 §103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2024
18427786 TABLE DATA PROCESSING USING A CHANGE TRACKING MANAGER CAO, PHUONG THAO 2164 §103 Final Rejection 81d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2024
18392385 INEXACT TIMESTAMP RANGE MATCHING JOIN FOR TIME SERIES DATA (AS OF JOIN) MCQUITERY, DIEDRA M 2166 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2023
18525811 DYNAMIC PIVOT IMPLEMENTATION USING OBJECT AGGREGATION WONG, HUEN 2168 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2023
18490586 REAL-TIME FEATURE STORE IN A DATABASE SYSTEM MAY, ROBERT F 2154 §101 Final Rejection 86d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2023
18470585 APPLICATION VERSIONING AND UPGRADE UNG, LANNY N 2197 §103 Non-Final OA 149d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2023
18309693 RISK BASED ALERTING AND ENTITY PRIORITIZATION DETECTION FRAMEWORK GILLESPIE, KAMRYN JORDAN 2408 §103 Non-Final OA 114d overdue Pending Apr 28, 2023
18309628 REAL-TIME AUTOMATED SECURITY SCORING LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER 2496 §102 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Apr 28, 2023
17823175 CODE TRANSLATIONS OF RESILIENT DISTRIBUTED DATASETS IN DATABASES HO, ANDREW N 2169 §103 Final Rejection 99d overdue Pending Aug 30, 2022
17897621 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING MODEL METRICS WITHOUT LABELS PEACH, POLINA G 2165 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Aug 29, 2022
17673388 EVALUATING RELIABILITY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HAN, KYU HYUNG 2123 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2022

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