Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Solarwinds Worldwide LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, reflecting a one-to-one ratio between pending matters and the examining personnel involved. This distribution indicates that the company's current software-related prosecution is not concentrated within a single specialized group or under a specific examiner. The involvement of 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending office actions suggests that the subject matter of these filings is technically diverse within the broader software category.
KO, CHAE M is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is part of the 2 pending office actions in the portfolio. For practitioners, this means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the specific preferences of each examiner, as there is no overlap to leverage across the 2 pending office actions. The 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units require independent legal arguments for each application. This lack of concentration suggests that the company's software innovations are being evaluated in separate technical niches within the USPTO.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KO, CHAE M | 1 | 89.1% | +4.8% |
| TRAN, NAM T | 1 | 77.0% | +25.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19240480 | 5 WHY SUMMARY FOR PROBLEM ANALYSIS IN OBSERVABILITY SYSTEMS | KO, CHAE M | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18596252 | SECURITY RISK LEVEL ASSESSMENT OF ASSETS AND SOFTWARE COMPONENTS | TRAN, NAM T | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2114 | 1 |
| 2455 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19240480 | 5 WHY SUMMARY FOR PROBLEM ANALYSIS IN OBSERVABILITY SYSTEMS | KO, CHAE M | 2114 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 18596252 | SECURITY RISK LEVEL ASSESSMENT OF ASSETS AND SOFTWARE COMPONENTS | TRAN, NAM T | 2455 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
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