Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

SOPHOS Limited

21 pending office actions • 14 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 62 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

21
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due later (1)

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.

9
Hard (43%)
10
Medium (48%)
1
Easy (5%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (5%)
§101 + other4 (19%)
§103 only8 (38%)
§102 only1 (5%)
Double-patenting only1 (5%)
Double-patenting + other1 (5%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (19%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
17
Information Tech
81% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
4
Business / Other
19% 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.

210 h
Manual time on pending OAs
42 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
74 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TRAN, NAM T 2 76.7% +26.3%
GORTAYO, DANGELINO N 1 78.7% +29.4%
JHAVERI, JAYESH M 1 82.8% +31.1%
PENA-SANTANA, TANIA M 1 71.9% -3.5%
LANIER, BENJAMIN E 1 69.3% +17.5%
RAHIM, MONJUR 1 84.5% +16.4%
ZAIDI, SYED A 1 81.8% +12.4%
TAYLOR, SAKINAH W 1 86.5% +23.6%
HUANG, CHENG-FENG 1 87.6% +16.8%
NARRAMORE, BLAKE I 1 77.5% +22.5%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18925829 FIREWALL OFFLOADING HUANG, CHENG-FENG 21d
19071591 AUGMENTED SECURITY RECOGNITION TASKS JHAVERI, JAYESH M
19029934 FIREWALL TECHNIQUES FOR COLORED OBJECTS ON ENDPOINTS ZAIDI, SYED A

Hard Cases (9)

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
18757996 ACTIVE THREAT RESPONSE WITH HOST ISOLATION PARSONS, THEODORE C 50d overdue
18823962 LOAD BALANCING FOR CLOUD-BASED ZERO TRUST NETWORK ACCESS DATA PLANE SUH, ANDREW 16d
19096196 DATA LAKE LOOKUPS USING EVENT TIME STAMPS IN LINEAGE DATA TRAN, NAM T
19067952 Compound threat detections in cloud computing environments LANIER, BENJAMIN E
19018538 IDENTIFYING MALICIOUS NETWORK TRAFFIC BEHAVIOR USING FLOW-BASED PACKET PAYLOAD LENGTH AGGREGATION TAYLOR, SAKINAH W
18772026 SECURE FIREWALL CONFIGURATIONS ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR
18763507 RULES PROCESSING SYSTEM ALI, AFAQ
18653769 AGILE POLICY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM EYERS, DUSTIN D

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18925829 FIREWALL OFFLOADING HUANG, CHENG-FENG 21d
19096196 DATA LAKE LOOKUPS USING EVENT TIME STAMPS IN LINEAGE DATA TRAN, NAM T
19095524 MINIFILTER SQUATTING PROTECTION GORTAYO, DANGELINO N
19071591 AUGMENTED SECURITY RECOGNITION TASKS JHAVERI, JAYESH M
19067952 Compound threat detections in cloud computing environments LANIER, BENJAMIN E
19067954 Rapid exposure detections in cloud computing environments RAHIM, MONJUR
19029934 FIREWALL TECHNIQUES FOR COLORED OBJECTS ON ENDPOINTS ZAIDI, SYED A
19018538 IDENTIFYING MALICIOUS NETWORK TRAFFIC BEHAVIOR USING FLOW-BASED PACKET PAYLOAD LENGTH AGGREGATION TAYLOR, SAKINAH W

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2455 2
2431 2
2497 2
2168 1
2438 1
2493 1
2496 1
2434 1
2494 1
2164 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19096196 DATA LAKE LOOKUPS USING EVENT TIME STAMPS IN LINEAGE DATA TRAN, NAM T 2455 §101Other 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 §102Other Non-Final OA Pending Mar 05, 2025
19068835 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE FOR CONSTRUCTING COMPLEX DATABASE QUERIES PENA-SANTANA, TANIA M DP Non-Final OA Pending Mar 03, 2025
19067952 Compound threat detections in cloud computing environments LANIER, BENJAMIN E §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 02, 2025
19067954 Rapid exposure detections in cloud computing environments RAHIM, MONJUR Non-Final OA Pending Mar 02, 2025
19029934 FIREWALL TECHNIQUES FOR COLORED OBJECTS ON ENDPOINTS ZAIDI, SYED A 2431 §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 17, 2025
19018538 IDENTIFYING MALICIOUS NETWORK TRAFFIC BEHAVIOR USING FLOW-BASED PACKET PAYLOAD LENGTH AGGREGATION TAYLOR, SAKINAH W 2431 §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Jan 13, 2025
18925829 FIREWALL OFFLOADING HUANG, CHENG-FENG 2497 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Oct 24, 2024
18823936 WEBSOCKET SERVER FOR CLOUD-BASED ZERO TRUST NETWORK ACCESS DATA PLANE NARRAMORE, BLAKE I 2438 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 04, 2024
18823962 LOAD BALANCING FOR CLOUD-BASED ZERO TRUST NETWORK ACCESS DATA PLANE SUH, ANDREW 2493 §103§112 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Sep 04, 2024
18772026 SECURE FIREWALL CONFIGURATIONS ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR 2496 §101§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jul 12, 2024
18763507 RULES PROCESSING SYSTEM ALI, AFAQ 2434 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jul 03, 2024
18757996 ACTIVE THREAT RESPONSE WITH HOST ISOLATION PARSONS, THEODORE C 2494 §101§102§103Other 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 2400 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 22, 2024
18434624 Dynamic signature selection systems and methods TRAN, NAM T 2455 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 06, 2024
18485564 MALICIOUS ENUMERATION ATTACK DETECTION GREENE, JOSEPH L 2443 §103 Non-Final OA 74d overdue Pending Oct 12, 2023
18215905 Tunneling with fully qualified domain name hosts CELANI, NICHOLAS P 2449 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 29, 2023
17480556 MALICIOUS MESSAGE DETECTION HUSSEIN, HASSAN A 2497 §103 Final Rejection 79d Pending Sep 21, 2021
16129087 DYNAMIC FILTERING OF ENDPOINT EVENT STREAMS SAVENKOV, VADIM 2432 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 12, 2018

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