Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Virsec Systems Inc. is navigating 5 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. The portfolio shows a broad distribution of work, as these actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. This ratio between actions, examiners, and art units indicates that multiple pending matters are not currently being reviewed by the same individual or within the same specialized unit. Such a wide spread suggests that the company's intellectual property in Networking & Security covers a diverse range of sub-technologies that trigger different examination priorities.
SHAUGHNESSY, AIDAN EDWARD is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, though they are only responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that there are 5 pending office actions in total, the workload is perfectly decentralized across the 5 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration may require the company to manage diverse examiner styles and varying interpretation of prior art across its 5 distinct art units. For the practitioner, this means that success in one matter may not necessarily predict the outcome in others, as each of the 5 pending office actions is subject to the independent discretion of a different examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAUGHNESSY, AIDAN EDWARD | 1 | 18.8% | +1.8% |
| KANAAN, SIMON P | 1 | 82.8% | +16.0% |
| MUNGUIA, DUILIO | 1 | 71.4% | +66.7% |
| CHRISTENSEN, SCOTT B | 1 | 77.8% | +32.5% |
| KENDALL, CHUCK O | 1 | 86.8% | +8.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18720067 | Zero Trust File Integrity Protection | KANAAN, SIMON P | — |
| 17578379 | Workload Configuration Extractor | KENDALL, CHUCK O | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18724306 | ZERO DWELL TIME PROCESS MONITORING | SHAUGHNESSY, AIDAN EDWARD | — |
| 18714827 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TELEMETRY DATA BASED EVENT OCCURRENCE ANALYSIS WITH ADAPTIVE RULE FILTER | CHRISTENSEN, SCOTT B | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18719359 | Memory Hybrid-Dynamic Vulnerability Assessment | MUNGUIA, DUILIO | 100d overdue |
| 18720067 | Zero Trust File Integrity Protection | KANAAN, SIMON P | — |
| 18714827 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TELEMETRY DATA BASED EVENT OCCURRENCE ANALYSIS WITH ADAPTIVE RULE FILTER | CHRISTENSEN, SCOTT B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2432 | 1 |
| 2407 | 1 |
| 2497 | 1 |
| 2444 | 1 |
| 2192 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18724306 | ZERO DWELL TIME PROCESS MONITORING | SHAUGHNESSY, AIDAN EDWARD | 2432 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18720067 | Zero Trust File Integrity Protection | KANAAN, SIMON P | 2407 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18719359 | Memory Hybrid-Dynamic Vulnerability Assessment | MUNGUIA, DUILIO | 2497 | §103 | Final Rejection | 100d overdue | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18714827 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TELEMETRY DATA BASED EVENT OCCURRENCE ANALYSIS WITH ADAPTIVE RULE FILTER | CHRISTENSEN, SCOTT B | 2444 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 17578379 | Workload Configuration Extractor | KENDALL, CHUCK O | 2192 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2022 |
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