Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: DHAKAD, RUPALI

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2437

This examiner grants 38% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

38.2%
Allow Rate
-19.8% vs TC avg
73
Total Applications
+32.6%
Interview Lift
1238
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 34 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

0.9%
§101 Eligibility
4.4%
§102 Novelty
93.0%
§103 Obviousness
1.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18422967 Extended Embedded Controller Authenticated BIOS Interface for Analysis of Firmware Variable Transactions Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
17976965 AUTHENTICATION SERVICE FOR AUTOMATED DISTRIBUTION AND REVOCATION OF SHARED CREDENTIALS Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
17408219 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTIVE CHATBOT AUTHENTICATION OF USERS Final Rejection Mastercard International Incorporated
18721318 COMPUTER SYSTEM AND KEY EXCHANGE METHOD Final Rejection Hitachi, Ltd.
18431440 SECURE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS Final Rejection HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18778722 REPLICATION OF CUSTOMER KEYS STORED IN A VIRTUAL VAULT Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
17851981 ORGANIZATION BASED ACCESS CONTROL WITH BOUNDARY ACCESS POLICIES Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
17939254 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING A LOGIC DEFECT IN AN APPLICATION Final Rejection Worcester Polytechnic Institute
17581793 MACHINE TO MACHINE COMMUNICATION ACCELERATION VIA ENCRYPTION BYPASS Final Rejection T-Mobile USA, Inc.
18277529 PRIVACY-PROTECTION BASED VERIFICATION Non-Final OA Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.
17649704 SECURE MULTI-ENTERPRISE WIRELESS NETWORK Final Rejection Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
17199884 COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING, RETAINING AND MAINTAINING NETWORK USER RESOURCE SESSIONS Non-Final OA YAHOO ASSETS LLC
17574436 PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT ACTIONS AT DEVICE BASED ON SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF SUBSEQUENT AUTHENTICATION WITHIN THRESHOLD TIME AFTER REPEATED AUTHENTICATION FAILS Final Rejection Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
18161292 SECURITY IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS Non-Final OA Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
17366209 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANONYMOUS PASS-PHRASE AUTHENTICATION Non-Final OA VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
18525702 METHOD, PRODUCT, AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSLATING ENTITY PRIORITIZATION RULES TO A CONTINUOUS NUMERICAL SPACE Non-Final OA Vectra AI, Inc.
18812243 DIRECTORY SERVER PROVIDING TAG ENFORCEMENT AND NETWORK ENTITY ATTRACTION IN A SECURE PEER-TO-PEER DATA NETWORK Non-Final OA WhiteStar Communications, Inc.
17884146 CYBER THREAT INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CYBER THREAT INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CYBER THREAT INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM Final Rejection SANDS LAB INC.
18226461 Facial Recognition Filter for Restricting Access to Photographs Non-Final OA GeoSnapshot Pty Ltd
17791119 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROTECTING SECURITY OF HTML5 FILE Final Rejection PAX COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
17866051 DETECTING AND RESPONDING TO MALICIOUS ACTS DIRECTED TOWARDS MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA HiddenLayer Inc.
17436630 NETWORK DATA TRAFFIC IDENTIFICATION Non-Final OA Red Piranha Limited

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