Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 14, 2026

Verisign Inc.

12 pending office actions • 10 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 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
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (3)

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.

4
Hard (33%)
7
Medium (58%)
1
Easy (8%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (8%)
§101 + other2 (17%)
§103 only5 (42%)
§102 only1 (8%)
§112 only1 (8%)
Double-patenting + other1 (8%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
10
Information Tech
83% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
8% of docket
1
Business / Other
8% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RASHID, HARUNUR 1 76.0% +36.3%
SHIN, KYUNG H 1 82.0% +10.5%
ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S 1 67.2% +26.0%
PARRY, CHRISTOPHER L 1 55.6% +17.6%
SERRAO, RANODHI N 1 87.3% +15.6%
CHEN, SHIN HON 1 86.5% +13.4%
CATTUNGAL, DEREENA T 1 80.2% +29.3%
DETWEILER, JAMES M 1 38.7% +43.3%
VINCENT, DAVID ROBERT 1 80.5% +4.4%
PATEL, HARESH N 1 77.7% +21.9%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18130272 DOMAIN NAME BLOCKCHAIN USER ADDRESSES CHEN, SHIN HON 125d overdue
18120859 METHOD FOR MINIMIZING THE RISK AND EXPOSURE DURATION OF IMPROPER OR HIJACKED DNS RECORDS CATTUNGAL, DEREENA T 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

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17962293 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED AFFIX-BASED DOMAIN NAME SUGGESTION VINCENT, DAVID ROBERT 3d overdue
18897272 REGULAR EXPRESSION SEARCHING ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S 22d
18114739 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOMAIN NAME VALUATION DETWEILER, JAMES M 23d
15496694 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC WEBSITE GENERATION AND DOMAIN NAME SUGGESTION FABER, DAVID 30d

Interview Candidates (9)

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
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
18120859 METHOD FOR MINIMIZING THE RISK AND EXPOSURE DURATION OF IMPROPER OR HIJACKED DNS RECORDS CATTUNGAL, DEREENA T 31d overdue
18221634 TECHNIQUES FOR INDICATING A DEGRADED STATE OF AN AUTHORITATIVE NAME SERVER SERRAO, RANODHI N 15d overdue
18897272 REGULAR EXPRESSION SEARCHING ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S 22d
18114739 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOMAIN NAME VALUATION DETWEILER, JAMES M 23d
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

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2431 2
2447 1
2154 1
2441 1
2444 1
3621 1
2123 1
2496 1
2449 1
2172 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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
18897272 REGULAR EXPRESSION SEARCHING ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S 2154 §101§103Other Final Rejection 22d Pending Sep 26, 2024
18655484 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SECURE ACCESS TO SHARED REGISTRATION SYSTEMS PARRY, CHRISTOPHER L 2441 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 06, 2024
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
18120859 METHOD FOR MINIMIZING THE RISK AND EXPOSURE DURATION OF IMPROPER OR HIJACKED DNS RECORDS CATTUNGAL, DEREENA T 2431 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Mar 13, 2023
18114739 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOMAIN NAME VALUATION DETWEILER, JAMES M 3621 §101§103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Feb 27, 2023
17962293 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED AFFIX-BASED DOMAIN NAME SUGGESTION VINCENT, DAVID ROBERT 2123 §101 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Oct 07, 2022
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
16927032 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING NEW DOMAINS CHEN, WUJI 2449 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jul 13, 2020
15496694 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC WEBSITE GENERATION AND DOMAIN NAME SUGGESTION FABER, DAVID 2172 §103§112 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Apr 25, 2017

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