Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Varonis Systems, Inc.

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
3
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.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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 (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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.

1
Hard (20%)
4
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (20%)
§103 only4 (80%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
60% of docket
2
Communications
40% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NEWAY, SAMUEL G 1 75.3% +7.7%
NGUYEN, PHONG H 1 70.7% +20.2%
PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT 1 83.0% +12.7%
SCHMIDT, KARI L 1 74.2% +42.9%
NANO, SARGON N 1 81.0% -2.0%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18636297 System and Method for Utilizing a Large Language Model (LLM) for Labeling Data-Items for Training a Machine Learning (ML) Model PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT 65d

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18383076 Email Security and Prevention of Phishing Attacks Using a Large Language Model (LLM) Engine NANO, SARGON N 30d overdue

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18494562 Output Privacy System SCHMIDT, KARI L 89d overdue
18732019 INTEGRITY OF PORTABLE EXECUTABLES IN DEPLOYMENT PACKAGES NGUYEN, PHONG H 29d
18636297 System and Method for Utilizing a Large Language Model (LLM) for Labeling Data-Items for Training a Machine Learning (ML) Model PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT 65d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2657 1
2156 1
2655 1
2439 1
2443 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18788970 Combined Machine Learning and Large Language Models NEWAY, SAMUEL G 2657 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jul 30, 2024
18732019 INTEGRITY OF PORTABLE EXECUTABLES IN DEPLOYMENT PACKAGES NGUYEN, PHONG H 2156 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Jun 03, 2024
18636297 System and Method for Utilizing a Large Language Model (LLM) for Labeling Data-Items for Training a Machine Learning (ML) Model PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT 2655 §103 Final Rejection 65d Pending Apr 16, 2024
18494562 Output Privacy System SCHMIDT, KARI L 2439 §103 Final Rejection 89d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2023
18383076 Email Security and Prevention of Phishing Attacks Using a Large Language Model (LLM) Engine NANO, SARGON N 2443 §101 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2023

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