Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Sophos Limited

13 pending office actions • 11 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 64 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
2
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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.

0
Hard (0%)
11
Medium (85%)
1
Easy (8%)
1
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only11 (85%)
§112 only1 (8%)
No statute on record1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
13
Information Tech
100% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MCNALLY, MICHAEL S 1 89.7% +8.7%
HUANG, CHENG-FENG 1 87.4% +17.4%
PARK, SANGSEOK 1 83.8% +17.1%
SUH, ANDREW 1 79.8% +39.0%
PARSONS, THEODORE C 1 78.2% +22.7%
RAHIM, MONJUR 1 84.4% +16.3%
WANG, HARRIS C 1 69.6% +20.2%
AHSAN, SYED M 1 73.2% +18.8%
PENA-SANTANA, TANIA M 1 70.9% -4.7%
GREENE, JOSEPH L 1 63.2% +36.7%

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
18823903 ZERO TRUST NETWORK ACCESS CONNECTOR FOR CUSTOMER PREMISES PARK, SANGSEOK 51d overdue
18949227 DOMAIN NAME SERVICE PROTECTION FOR SECURE WEB GATEWAY MCNALLY, MICHAEL S 9d overdue
18925829 FIREWALL OFFLOADING HUANG, CHENG-FENG 21d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18485564 MALICIOUS ENUMERATION ATTACK DETECTION GREENE, JOSEPH L 74d overdue
18823903 ZERO TRUST NETWORK ACCESS CONNECTOR FOR CUSTOMER PREMISES PARK, SANGSEOK 51d overdue
18757996 ACTIVE THREAT RESPONSE WITH HOST ISOLATION PARSONS, THEODORE C 50d overdue
18523073 ACTIVE VERIFICATION OF SECURITY INFRASTRUCTURE AHSAN, SYED M 9d overdue
18823962 LOAD BALANCING FOR CLOUD-BASED ZERO TRUST NETWORK ACCESS DATA PLANE SUH, ANDREW 16d
18925829 FIREWALL OFFLOADING HUANG, CHENG-FENG 21d
18423801 ELEVATED SECURITY EXECUTION MODE FOR NETWORK-ACCESSIBLE DEVICES RAHIM, MONJUR 35d
18411625 SELF-OPTIMIZING DEPLOYMENT OF DECOUPLED THREAT MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS WITHIN CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS WANG, HARRIS C 69d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2497 2
2443 2
2432 1
2499 1
2493 1
2494 1
2436 1
2439 1
2491 1
2445 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18949227 DOMAIN NAME SERVICE PROTECTION FOR SECURE WEB GATEWAY MCNALLY, MICHAEL S 2432 §112 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2024
18925829 FIREWALL OFFLOADING HUANG, CHENG-FENG 2497 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Oct 24, 2024
18823903 ZERO TRUST NETWORK ACCESS CONNECTOR FOR CUSTOMER PREMISES PARK, SANGSEOK 2499 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Sep 04, 2024
18823962 LOAD BALANCING FOR CLOUD-BASED ZERO TRUST NETWORK ACCESS DATA PLANE SUH, ANDREW 2493 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Sep 04, 2024
18757996 ACTIVE THREAT RESPONSE WITH HOST ISOLATION PARSONS, THEODORE C 2494 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2024
18423801 ELEVATED SECURITY EXECUTION MODE FOR NETWORK-ACCESSIBLE DEVICES RAHIM, MONJUR 2436 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Jan 26, 2024
18411625 SELF-OPTIMIZING DEPLOYMENT OF DECOUPLED THREAT MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS WITHIN CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS WANG, HARRIS C 2439 §103 Non-Final OA 69d Pending Jan 12, 2024
18523073 ACTIVE VERIFICATION OF SECURITY INFRASTRUCTURE AHSAN, SYED M 2491 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Nov 29, 2023
18517321 DETECTING TAMPERING WITH HOSTED SERVICES PENA-SANTANA, TANIA M 2443 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2023
18485564 MALICIOUS ENUMERATION ATTACK DETECTION GREENE, JOSEPH L 2443 §103 Non-Final OA 74d overdue Pending Oct 12, 2023
17880820 Digital certificate malicious activity detection JAKOVAC, RYAN J 2445 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Aug 04, 2022
17750674 Threat signature scoring LIN, SHERMAN L 2447 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending May 23, 2022
17480556 MALICIOUS MESSAGE DETECTION HUSSEIN, HASSAN A 2497 §103 Final Rejection 79d Pending Sep 21, 2021

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