Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Snowflake Inc.

44 pending office actions • 18 art units • 41 examiners • 0 of 44 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 119 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

44
Total Pending OAs
29
Non-Final OAs
15
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due later (2)

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.

13
Hard (30%)
28
Medium (64%)
3
Easy (7%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (2%)
§101 + other10 (23%)
§103 only26 (59%)
§102 only2 (5%)
§112 only1 (2%)
Double-patenting only2 (5%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
32
Information Tech
73% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
12
Business / Other
27% 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.

440 h
Manual time on pending OAs
88 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
154 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GURMU, MULUEMEBET 2 80.1% +17.7%
EYERS, DUSTIN D 2 57.8% +22.2%
TRAN, AMY NMN 2 35.5% +44.3%
TORGRIMSON, TYLER J 1 72.8% +11.6%
GEBRESENBET, DINKU W 1 71.0% +34.7%
CASANOVA, JORGE A 1 84.8% +20.0%
WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H 1 89.5% +12.5%
BULLOCK, JOSHUA 1 82.6% +16.1%
YANG, HAN 1 92.1% +11.6%
PHAM, KHANH B 1 72.6% +15.3%

Quick Wins (6)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19173697 QUERY-BASED DATABASE REDACTION BULLOCK, JOSHUA 28d overdue
19287694 DATA REPLICATION IN DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS CASANOVA, JORGE A
19213325 SECURE EXECUTION OF USER-DEFINED FUNCTIONS WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H
19049451 NETWORK RESPONSE TO AN INTRUSION EVENT YANG, HAN
19043084 EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF BITSETS FOR DML STATEMENTS GURMU, MULUEMEBET
18679063 CONFIGURATION OF MANAGED DYNAMIC ICEBERG TABLES GURMU, MULUEMEBET

Hard Cases (13)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18746644 JOIN ELIMINATION HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM 163d overdue
17673388 EVALUATING RELIABILITY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HAN, KYU HYUNG 44d overdue
18525811 DYNAMIC PIVOT IMPLEMENTATION USING OBJECT AGGREGATION WONG, HUEN 17d overdue
18309628 REAL-TIME AUTOMATED SECURITY SCORING LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER 83d
19358878 AUTOMATED COMPLETION OF QUESTIONNAIRES BASED ON UNSTRUCTURED DATABASE OBJECTS TORGRIMSON, TYLER J
18983554 DISASTER RECOVERY FOR DATA SHARING WHITESELL, AUDREY EMMA
18790920 DETERMINING BIAS-CAUSING FEATURES OF A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TRAN, AMY NMN
18780180 ADJUSTING A TIMING TO PROCESS QUERIES DAO, THUY CHAN

Interview Candidates (13)

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
19173697 QUERY-BASED DATABASE REDACTION BULLOCK, JOSHUA 28d overdue
19031161 REPLICATION OF DYNAMIC TABLES PHAM, KHANH B 10d overdue
19358878 AUTOMATED COMPLETION OF QUESTIONNAIRES BASED ON UNSTRUCTURED DATABASE OBJECTS TORGRIMSON, TYLER J
19299800 METADATA SEARCH VIA N-GRAM INDEX GEBRESENBET, DINKU W
19287694 DATA REPLICATION IN DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS CASANOVA, JORGE A
19213325 SECURE EXECUTION OF USER-DEFINED FUNCTIONS WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H
19049451 NETWORK RESPONSE TO AN INTRUSION EVENT YANG, HAN
19043084 EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF BITSETS FOR DML STATEMENTS GURMU, MULUEMEBET

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2166 3
2495 3
2161 3
2164 3
2126 3
2165 2
2153 2
2163 2
2169 2
2113 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19358878 AUTOMATED COMPLETION OF QUESTIONNAIRES BASED ON UNSTRUCTURED DATABASE OBJECTS TORGRIMSON, TYLER J 2165 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 15, 2025
19299800 METADATA SEARCH VIA N-GRAM INDEX GEBRESENBET, DINKU W §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 14, 2025
19287694 DATA REPLICATION IN DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS CASANOVA, JORGE A DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 31, 2025
19213325 SECURE EXECUTION OF USER-DEFINED FUNCTIONS WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 20, 2025
19173697 QUERY-BASED DATABASE REDACTION BULLOCK, JOSHUA 2153 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2025
19049451 NETWORK RESPONSE TO AN INTRUSION EVENT YANG, HAN DP Non-Final OA Pending Feb 10, 2025
19043084 EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF BITSETS FOR DML STATEMENTS GURMU, MULUEMEBET 2163 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 31, 2025
19031161 REPLICATION OF DYNAMIC TABLES PHAM, KHANH B 2166 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2025
19025920 DATA MODEL OF SCHEMA LEVEL OBJECT FOR ASSOCIATING ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT IDENTITIES WITH DATA ASSETS LEWIS, LISA C 2495 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 16, 2025
19020807 BOTTOM-UP PLAN RECONSTRUCTION FOR SQL QUERY OPTIMIZATION GLASSER, DARA J 2161 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 14, 2025
18983554 DISASTER RECOVERY FOR DATA SHARING WHITESELL, AUDREY EMMA 2113 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 17, 2024
18955789 QUERY EXECUTION USING INTERMEDIATE MATERIALIZED TABLES AGHARAHIMI, FARHAD 2161 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2024
18933334 HYBRID TABLE FAST BULK LOAD FOR INSERT AND COPY EYERS, DUSTIN D 2164 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2024
18916995 CREDENTIAL-LESS ACCESS TO REMOTE RESOURCES MAI, KEVIN S 2499 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 16, 2024
18824688 ORGANIZING, DISCOVERING AND EVALUATING MARKETPLACE DATASETS AND SERVICES BY INDUSTRY BUSINESS NEEDS CHBOUKI, TAREK 2165 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 04, 2024
18790920 DETERMINING BIAS-CAUSING FEATURES OF A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TRAN, AMY NMN 2126 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 31, 2024
18780180 ADJUSTING A TIMING TO PROCESS QUERIES DAO, THUY CHAN §101§103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 22, 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 §101§103 Final Rejection 163d overdue Pending Jun 18, 2024
18679063 CONFIGURATION OF MANAGED DYNAMIC ICEBERG TABLES GURMU, MULUEMEBET 2163 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 30, 2024
18647728 NOISY AGGREGATES IN A QUERY PROCESSING SYSTEM IDOWU, OLUGBENGA O §102 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 26, 2024
18637833 REMOTE DEPLOYMENT REPLICATION USING A PLURALITY OF DATA OBJECTS TRUONG, CAM Y T 2169 §103Other Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending Apr 17, 2024
18635637 DATA DICTIONARY METADATA FOR MARKETPLACE LISTINGS EYERS, DUSTIN D 2164 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 15, 2024
18633840 REAL-TIME, ACCESS-CONTROLLED INTERFACE FOR VIEWING METADATA GREENE, JOSEPH L 2443 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 12, 2024
18633258 INTEGRATE SQL DATABASE WITH CONTAINER EXECUTION MANAGEMENT TRUONG, LECHI §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 11, 2024
18629693 INTELLIGENT HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP VALIDATION DURING DOCUMENT EXTRACTION PROCESSING BOGGS JR., JAMES §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 08, 2024
18622438 DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY ON DATABASE SYSTEM USING STORED PROCEDURE PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J 2409 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 29, 2024
18622395 DATABASE SYSTEM USING DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY DOMAIN LWIN, MAUNG T 2495 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 29, 2024
18607857 EFFICIENT DATABASE QUERY EVALUATION MITIKU, BERHANU 2156 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 18, 2024
18599647 EXPORT DATA FROM TABLES INTO PARTITIONED FOLDERS ON AN EXTERNAL DATA LAKE FERRER, JEDIDIAH P 2153 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2024
18586797 CLUSTERING EXECUTION MANAGEMENT IN A DATABASE SYSTEM DAUD, ABDULLAH AHMED 2164 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 26, 2024
18443903 INTERACTIVE INTERFACE WITH GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GMAHL, NAVNEET K 2166 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 16, 2024
18525811 DYNAMIC PIVOT IMPLEMENTATION USING OBJECT AGGREGATION WONG, HUEN 2168 §103§112 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2023
18524920 END-TO-END ENTERPRISE SAAS LICENSE LIFECYCLE OPTIMIZATION BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 30, 2023
18505908 HYPERPARAMETER TUNING IN A DATABASE ENVIRONMENT UDDIN, MOHAMMED R 2161 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 09, 2023
18478539 FRAMEWORK TO REQUEST AND GRANT ACCESS TO PROTECTED RESOURCES ALATA, AYOUB §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 29, 2023
18317370 MANAGED APPLICATION OBJECTS SAVENKOV, VADIM 2432 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 15, 2023
18316787 OBJECT REFERENCE WITH SELECTABLE SCOPE DADA, BEEMNET W §102 Non-Final OA Pending May 12, 2023
18309628 REAL-TIME AUTOMATED SECURITY SCORING LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER 2496 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Apr 28, 2023
18300738 QUERY PARALLELISM AND MESSAGING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A CLOUD DATABASE HOANG, PHUONG N §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 14, 2023
18194085 DATASTORE WORKLOAD ISOLATION LE, JESSICA N 2169 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 31, 2023
17897760 EXTRACTING AND TRANSFERRING FEATURE REPRESENTATIONS BETWEEN MODELS AHMED, SYED RAYHAN 2126 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 29, 2022
17673388 EVALUATING RELIABILITY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HAN, KYU HYUNG 2123 §101§103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2022
17371551 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL BEHAVIOR OVER DATA SEGMENTS TRAN, AMY NMN 2126 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 09, 2021

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