Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Networking & Security
21 pending office actions • 15 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 58 patents granted in the last 365 days
SOPHOS Limited maintains a robust patent portfolio with 21 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. The prosecution is highly decentralized, as evidenced by the 20 distinct examiners assigned to these cases. This distribution means that the 21 pending office actions are reviewed by 20 distinct examiners, requiring a broad range of examiner-specific strategies. The high volume of 21 pending office actions suggests an active and ongoing investment in protecting its intellectual property within this competitive sector.
The technical scope of the portfolio is also quite broad, spanning 15 distinct art units. This variety suggests that the company's innovations in networking and security touch upon many different specialized classifications at the patent office. RAHIM, MONJUR is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, yet he is responsible for only 2 pending office actions. This low level of concentration, even for the busiest examiner, reinforces the need for the company to manage a wide array of examiner relationships. The presence of 15 distinct art units further complicates the prosecution landscape, as it involves navigating the specific guidelines of numerous technical groups.
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 | 4 (19%) |
| §103 only | 8 (38%) |
| §102 only | 3 (14%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (19%) |
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% | +16.4% |
| BAYARD, DJENANE M | 1 | 83.7% | +1.1% |
| TRAN, JIMMY H | 1 | 79.5% | +17.2% |
| TRUONG, LAWRENCE QUANG | 1 | 87.5% | -13.3% |
| KORSAK, OLEG | 1 | 85.7% | +7.6% |
| RUIZ, ANGELICA | 1 | 83.2% | +14.5% |
| GORTAYO, DANGELINO N | 1 | 78.6% | +29.6% |
| JHAVERI, JAYESH M | 1 | 82.9% | +30.8% |
| LANIER, BENJAMIN E | 1 | 69.4% | +16.9% |
| ZAIDI, SYED A | 1 | 81.9% | +12.2% |
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 |
| 19096234 | PROGRESSIVE AUGMENTATION OF THREAT TIMELINE VISUALIZATION | KORSAK, OLEG | — |
| 19095452 | MINIFILTER SQUATTING PROTECTION | RUIZ, ANGELICA | — |
| 19071591 | AUGMENTED SECURITY RECOGNITION TASKS | JHAVERI, JAYESH M | — |
| 19067954 | Rapid exposure detections in cloud computing environments | RAHIM, MONJUR | — |
| 19029934 | FIREWALL TECHNIQUES FOR COLORED OBJECTS ON ENDPOINTS | ZAIDI, SYED A | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18757996 | ACTIVE THREAT RESPONSE WITH HOST ISOLATION | PARSONS, THEODORE C | 50d 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 | — |
| 19096152 | LINEAGE DATA FOR EVENTS IN THREAT TIMELINE VISUALIZATION | TRUONG, LAWRENCE QUANG | — |
| 19067952 | Compound threat detections in cloud computing environments | LANIER, BENJAMIN E | — |
| 18772026 | SECURE FIREWALL CONFIGURATIONS | ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR | — |
| 18763507 | RULES PROCESSING SYSTEM | ALI, AFAQ | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18423801 | ELEVATED SECURITY EXECUTION MODE FOR NETWORK-ACCESSIBLE DEVICES | RAHIM, MONJUR | 35d |
| 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 | — |
| 19067952 | Compound threat detections in cloud computing environments | LANIER, BENJAMIN E | — |
| 19029934 | FIREWALL TECHNIQUES FOR COLORED OBJECTS ON ENDPOINTS | ZAIDI, SYED A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2434 | 2 |
| 2492 | 1 |
| 2154 | 1 |
| 2168 | 1 |
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2438 | 1 |
| 2496 | 1 |
| 2494 | 1 |
| 2164 | 1 |
| 2400 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19264737 | Stateful Email Detection Using Schemaless Data Fragments | BAYARD, DJENANE M | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 19194613 | VALIDATION OF ZTNA CONFIGURATION FOR A MULTI-TENANT PROXY ENVIRONMENT | TRAN, JIMMY H | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19096152 | LINEAGE DATA FOR EVENTS IN THREAT TIMELINE VISUALIZATION | TRUONG, LAWRENCE QUANG | 2434 | §101§103§112DP | 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 |
| 19095452 | MINIFILTER SQUATTING PROTECTION | RUIZ, ANGELICA | 2154 | §103 | 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 |
| 19067954 | Rapid exposure detections in cloud computing environments | RAHIM, MONJUR | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 02, 2025 |
| 19067952 | Compound threat detections in cloud computing environments | LANIER, BENJAMIN E | — | §101§103 | 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 |
| 18823936 | WEBSOCKET SERVER FOR CLOUD-BASED ZERO TRUST NETWORK ACCESS DATA PLANE | NARRAMORE, BLAKE I | 2438 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | 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 | §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 | 2400 | §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 |
| 18503920 | Multistage Quarantine of Emails | DILUZIO, NICHOLAS JOSEPH | 2498 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 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 |
| 16129087 | DYNAMIC FILTERING OF ENDPOINT EVENT STREAMS | SAVENKOV, VADIM | 2432 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2018 |
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