Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
12 pending office actions • 10 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Verisign Inc. maintains a significant prosecution presence with 11 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. This portfolio is widely distributed across 9 distinct art units, demonstrating a broad range of technical scrutiny for the company's networking innovations. The prosecution work is handled by 11 distinct examiners, which means that every pending office action is currently assigned to a unique examiner. This high number of examiners relative to the pending actions suggests a lack of examiner concentration for the company's current filings.
AHSAN, SYED M is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. The fact that the pending office actions are spread across various examiners and 9 distinct art units suggests a highly decentralized and diverse examination process. Practitioners should prepare for a variety of examiner styles and art unit standards, as the company's actions are not concentrated under any single official. This distribution highlights the complexity and breadth of the company's intellectual property in the security sector, requiring a strategy that accounts for the 1 busiest examiner pending action.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 7 (58%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 2 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHSAN, SYED M | 1 | 73.1% | +22.3% |
| RASHID, HARUNUR | 1 | 75.9% | +36.2% |
| SHIN, KYUNG H | 1 | 82.0% | +10.5% |
| KHAN, SHER A | 1 | 85.3% | +23.5% |
| PARRY, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 55.9% | +17.5% |
| ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS | 1 | 81.9% | +16.7% |
| MASUD, ROKIB | 1 | 68.9% | +0.2% |
| SERRAO, RANODHI N | 1 | 87.2% | +15.4% |
| CHEN, SHIN HON | 1 | 86.2% | +13.4% |
| PATEL, HARESH N | 1 | 77.8% | +21.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18130272 | DOMAIN NAME BLOCKCHAIN USER ADDRESSES | CHEN, SHIN HON | 125d overdue |
| 18607225 | ALIAS-BASED ACCESS OF ENTITY INFORMATION OVER VOICE-ENABLED DIGITAL ASSISTANTS | ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS | 45d overdue |
| 18895098 | BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK IDENTIFIER CLAIMING USING REGISTRATION STATUS REQUESTS | KHAN, SHER A | 31d overdue |
| 18221634 | TECHNIQUES FOR INDICATING A DEGRADED STATE OF AN AUTHORITATIVE NAME SERVER | SERRAO, RANODHI N | 15d overdue |
| 18963292 | TRANSFERRING A DOMAIN NAME ON A SECONDARY BLOCKCHAIN MARKET AND IN THE DNS | SHIN, KYUNG H | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15496694 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC WEBSITE GENERATION AND DOMAIN NAME SUGGESTION | FABER, DAVID | 30d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17729883 | REGISTERING, MANAGING, AND COMMUNICATING WITH IOT DEVICES USING DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM PROCESSES | PATEL, HARESH N | 415d overdue |
| 18130272 | DOMAIN NAME BLOCKCHAIN USER ADDRESSES | CHEN, SHIN HON | 125d overdue |
| 18607225 | ALIAS-BASED ACCESS OF ENTITY INFORMATION OVER VOICE-ENABLED DIGITAL ASSISTANTS | ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS | 45d overdue |
| 18895098 | BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK IDENTIFIER CLAIMING USING REGISTRATION STATUS REQUESTS | KHAN, SHER A | 31d overdue |
| 18221634 | TECHNIQUES FOR INDICATING A DEGRADED STATE OF AN AUTHORITATIVE NAME SERVER | SERRAO, RANODHI N | 15d overdue |
| 19075625 | INTEGRATED DNS SERVICE PROVIDER SERVICES USING CERTIFICATE-BASED AUTHENTICATION | AHSAN, SYED M | — |
| 19059891 | GTLD DOMAIN NAME REGISTRIES RDAP ARCHITECTURE | RASHID, HARUNUR | — |
| 18963292 | TRANSFERRING A DOMAIN NAME ON A SECONDARY BLOCKCHAIN MARKET AND IN THE DNS | SHIN, KYUNG H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2447 | 1 |
| 2497 | 1 |
| 2441 | 1 |
| 2656 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| 2444 | 1 |
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2496 | 1 |
| 2168 | 1 |
| 2172 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19075625 | INTEGRATED DNS SERVICE PROVIDER SERVICES USING CERTIFICATE-BASED AUTHENTICATION | AHSAN, SYED M | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19059891 | GTLD DOMAIN NAME REGISTRIES RDAP ARCHITECTURE | RASHID, HARUNUR | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18963292 | TRANSFERRING A DOMAIN NAME ON A SECONDARY BLOCKCHAIN MARKET AND IN THE DNS | SHIN, KYUNG H | 2447 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18895098 | BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK IDENTIFIER CLAIMING USING REGISTRATION STATUS REQUESTS | KHAN, SHER A | 2497 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18655484 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SECURE ACCESS TO SHARED REGISTRATION SYSTEMS | PARRY, CHRISTOPHER L | 2441 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18607225 | ALIAS-BASED ACCESS OF ENTITY INFORMATION OVER VOICE-ENABLED DIGITAL ASSISTANTS | ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS | 2656 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18399093 | AUTHENTICATED NAME RESOLUTION | MASUD, ROKIB | 3627 | §103 | Final Rejection | 86d overdue | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18221634 | TECHNIQUES FOR INDICATING A DEGRADED STATE OF AN AUTHORITATIVE NAME SERVER | SERRAO, RANODHI N | 2444 | §102 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
| 18130272 | DOMAIN NAME BLOCKCHAIN USER ADDRESSES | CHEN, SHIN HON | 2431 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 125d overdue | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
| 17729883 | REGISTERING, MANAGING, AND COMMUNICATING WITH IOT DEVICES USING DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM PROCESSES | PATEL, HARESH N | 2496 | §103 | Final Rejection | 415d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2022 |
| 17328296 | BULK MANAGEMENT OF REGISTRY OBJECTS | HOANG, KEN | 2168 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2021 |
| 15496694 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC WEBSITE GENERATION AND DOMAIN NAME SUGGESTION | FABER, DAVID | 2172 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Apr 25, 2017 |
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