Technology area: Networking & Security
16 pending office actions • 14 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 54 patents granted in the last 365 days
SOPHOS Limited has 16 pending office actions in Networking & Security. These matters involve 15 examiners and 14 art units, showing that most matters have distinct examination assignments.
RAHIM, MONJUR is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The distribution supports centralized tracking of claim themes and prior-art responses, but it provides limited basis for relying on one examiner's preferences across the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 2 (12%) |
| §103 only | 5 (31%) |
| §102 only | 3 (19%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAHIM, MONJUR | 2 | 84.6% | +16.2% |
| BAYARD, DJENANE M | 1 | 83.6% | +1.2% |
| GOODCHILD, WILLIAM J | 1 | 82.8% | +14.4% |
| TRAN, JIMMY H | 1 | 79.5% | +17.2% |
| RUIZ, ANGELICA | 1 | 83.3% | +14.4% |
| KORSAK, OLEG | 1 | 85.7% | +7.3% |
| GORTAYO, DANGELINO N | 1 | 78.6% | +29.6% |
| JHAVERI, JAYESH M | 1 | 82.9% | +30.6% |
| ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR | 1 | 77.3% | +6.9% |
| PARSONS, THEODORE C | 1 | 78.6% | +21.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18423801 | ELEVATED SECURITY EXECUTION MODE FOR NETWORK-ACCESSIBLE DEVICES | RAHIM, MONJUR | 35d |
| 19253384 | COMPUTER AUGMENTED THREAT EVALUATION | GOODCHILD, WILLIAM J | — |
| 19095452 | MINIFILTER SQUATTING PROTECTION | RUIZ, ANGELICA | — |
| 19096234 | PROGRESSIVE AUGMENTATION OF THREAT TIMELINE VISUALIZATION | KORSAK, OLEG | — |
| 19071591 | AUGMENTED SECURITY RECOGNITION TASKS | JHAVERI, JAYESH M | — |
| 19067954 | Rapid exposure detections in cloud computing environments | RAHIM, MONJUR | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18757996 | ACTIVE THREAT RESPONSE WITH HOST ISOLATION | PARSONS, THEODORE C | 50d overdue |
| 18517321 | DETECTING TAMPERING WITH HOSTED SERVICES | PENA-SANTANA, TANIA M | 16d overdue |
| 19264737 | Stateful Email Detection Using Schemaless Data Fragments | BAYARD, DJENANE M | — |
| 19194613 | VALIDATION OF ZTNA CONFIGURATION FOR A MULTI-TENANT PROXY ENVIRONMENT | TRAN, JIMMY H | — |
| 18772026 | SECURE FIREWALL CONFIGURATIONS | ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR | — |
| 18653769 | AGILE POLICY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | EYERS, DUSTIN D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18757996 | ACTIVE THREAT RESPONSE WITH HOST ISOLATION | PARSONS, THEODORE C | 50d overdue |
| 18423801 | ELEVATED SECURITY EXECUTION MODE FOR NETWORK-ACCESSIBLE DEVICES | RAHIM, MONJUR | 35d |
| 19253384 | COMPUTER AUGMENTED THREAT EVALUATION | GOODCHILD, WILLIAM J | — |
| 19194613 | VALIDATION OF ZTNA CONFIGURATION FOR A MULTI-TENANT PROXY ENVIRONMENT | TRAN, JIMMY H | — |
| 19095452 | MINIFILTER SQUATTING PROTECTION | RUIZ, ANGELICA | — |
| 19095524 | MINIFILTER SQUATTING PROTECTION | GORTAYO, DANGELINO N | — |
| 19071591 | AUGMENTED SECURITY RECOGNITION TASKS | JHAVERI, JAYESH M | — |
| 19067954 | Rapid exposure detections in cloud computing environments | RAHIM, MONJUR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2492 | 2 |
| 2436 | 2 |
| 2444 | 1 |
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2451 | 1 |
| 2154 | 1 |
| 2168 | 1 |
| 2433 | 1 |
| 2496 | 1 |
| 2494 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19264737 | Stateful Email Detection Using Schemaless Data Fragments | BAYARD, DJENANE M | 2444 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 19253384 | COMPUTER AUGMENTED THREAT EVALUATION | GOODCHILD, WILLIAM J | 2431 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19194613 | VALIDATION OF ZTNA CONFIGURATION FOR A MULTI-TENANT PROXY ENVIRONMENT | TRAN, JIMMY H | 2451 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19095452 | MINIFILTER SQUATTING PROTECTION | RUIZ, ANGELICA | 2154 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19096234 | PROGRESSIVE AUGMENTATION OF THREAT TIMELINE VISUALIZATION | KORSAK, OLEG | 2492 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19095524 | MINIFILTER SQUATTING PROTECTION | GORTAYO, DANGELINO N | 2168 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19071591 | AUGMENTED SECURITY RECOGNITION TASKS | JHAVERI, JAYESH M | 2433 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19067954 | Rapid exposure detections in cloud computing environments | RAHIM, MONJUR | 2436 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 02, 2025 |
| 18772026 | SECURE FIREWALL CONFIGURATIONS | ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR | 2496 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18757996 | ACTIVE THREAT RESPONSE WITH HOST ISOLATION | PARSONS, THEODORE C | 2494 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18653769 | AGILE POLICY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | EYERS, DUSTIN D | 2164 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18642058 | KERNEL-BASED THREAD TERMINATION DETECTION | DHARIA, RUPAL | 2492 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18423801 | ELEVATED SECURITY EXECUTION MODE FOR NETWORK-ACCESSIBLE DEVICES | RAHIM, MONJUR | 2436 | DP | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18517321 | DETECTING TAMPERING WITH HOSTED SERVICES | PENA-SANTANA, TANIA M | 2443 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18503920 | Multistage Quarantine of Emails | DILUZIO, NICHOLAS JOSEPH | 2498 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 16129087 | DYNAMIC FILTERING OF ENDPOINT EVENT STREAMS | SAVENKOV, VADIM | 2432 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2018 |
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Start Free TrialSOPHOS Limited has 16 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 14 art units and 15 examiners.
Monjur Rahim has the most, with 2 of SOPHOS Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
