Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Weka Io Ltd. has 5 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units and 5 distinct examiners. This means the count of pending actions is equal to the count of examiners, indicating a decentralized review process for the company's current filings.
NGUYEN, PHONG H is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Since there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, no single examiner holds a majority of the workload. The 3 distinct art units indicate that the company's software filings are spread across a few different technical specialties. Practitioners should be prepared to manage 5 separate examiner relationships across these 3 distinct art units. This structure requires a tailored approach for each of the 5 pending office actions, as the busiest examiner handles only 1 case.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, PHONG H | 1 | 70.7% | +20.6% |
| JACKSON, JAYLUN ARMAN | 1 | — | — |
| ABRAHAM, ESAW T | 1 | 94.2% | +3.2% |
| MCMAHON, DANIEL F | 1 | 89.7% | +2.3% |
| PEACH, POLINA G | 1 | 50.4% | +23.3% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18795647 | AUTHENTICATED STATELESS MOUNT STRING FOR A DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM | MCMAHON, DANIEL F | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19284271 | PUSHING A POINT IN TIME TO A BACKEND OBJECT STORAGE FOR A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM | NGUYEN, PHONG H | — |
| 19057177 | Efficient Networking for a Distributed Storage System | ABRAHAM, ESAW T | — |
| 18539886 | Virtual File System Supporting Multi-Tiered Storage | PEACH, POLINA G | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19284271 | PUSHING A POINT IN TIME TO A BACKEND OBJECT STORAGE FOR A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM | NGUYEN, PHONG H | — |
| 18539886 | Virtual File System Supporting Multi-Tiered Storage | PEACH, POLINA G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2156 | 1 |
| 2111 | 1 |
| 2165 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19284271 | PUSHING A POINT IN TIME TO A BACKEND OBJECT STORAGE FOR A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM | NGUYEN, PHONG H | 2156 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2025 |
| 19059381 | Distributed Erasure Coded Virtual File System | JACKSON, JAYLUN ARMAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19057177 | Efficient Networking for a Distributed Storage System | ABRAHAM, ESAW T | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 18795647 | AUTHENTICATED STATELESS MOUNT STRING FOR A DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM | MCMAHON, DANIEL F | 2111 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18539886 | Virtual File System Supporting Multi-Tiered Storage | PEACH, POLINA G | 2165 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
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