Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Fogarty LLP

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security

60 pending office actions • 5 clients • 60 examiners • 44 art units • 0 of 60 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Fogarty LLP has 60 pending office actions in Computing & Software and 1921 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 94.18%, with an average of 3.41 office actions per allowance. The profile shows a substantial active docket alongside a high resolved allowance rate in a technology area where subject-matter eligibility and claim framing may be central prosecution issues.

The action average indicates that favorable resolution is associated with multiple examination exchanges, despite the high allowance rate. Practitioners should therefore treat outcome and effort as separate planning inputs. The application history gives the allowance measure a broad portfolio context, while the pending-action figure reflects current workload rather than a forecast of individual matter results.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=1921 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

94.2%
Allowance Rate
n=1921
+0.54σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1921
3.4
OAs to Allowance
n=1587
-0.06σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1587
983 days
Time to Allowance
n=1587
-3.7pp
Interview Lift
n=1921
34.1%
RCE Rate
n=1921
1.8%
Appeal Rate
n=1921

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

81.5%
§101 Overcome
n=362
85.7%
§102 Overcome
n=672
83.9%
§103 Overcome
n=1271
82.6%
§112 Overcome
n=533

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, H04M
Top CPC Subclasses
56%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1921
3
Practitioners
n=1921
640.3
Apps / Practitioner
n=1921

Portfolio Summary

60
Total Pending OAs
25
Non-Final OAs
22
Final Rejections
13
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 24 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
1
Due this week
10
Due this month
8
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 24 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (10)Due ≤ 60 days (8)Due later (1)

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.

30
Hard (50%)
28
Medium (47%)
2
Easy (3%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (5%)
§101 + other10 (17%)
§103 only25 (42%)
§102 only2 (3%)
§112 only2 (3%)
Double-patenting + other1 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)17 (28%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
43
Information Tech
72% of docket
4
Communications
7% of docket
7
Semiconductors
12% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
7% of docket
2
Business / Other
3% 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.

600 h
Manual time on pending OAs
120 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
210 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHOUDHURY, RAQIUL A 1 86.7% +5.5%
CHANG, VINCENT WEN-LIANG 1 72.8% +26.1%
ABYANEH, ALI S 1 77.6% +56.1%
PAN, YONGJIA 1 65.4% +30.8%
LEE, JAI M 1 77.3% +11.1%
BHANDARI, SHREYAJ RAM 1 100.0% +0.0%
DESROSIERS, EVANS 1 82.8% +23.1%
WALTER, KATHERINE JUNE 1 71.7% +20.0%
RIVERA, ANIBAL 1 91.0% +11.8%
BAE, JI H 1 82.3% +20.9%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19239649 CERTIFICATE AUTHORITY BASED OWNERSHIP FOR SECURE DEVICE ONBOARDING CHOUDHURY, RAQIUL A —
18884557 COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMEDIATING PERMISSIONS ISSUES IN DURABLY CREDENTIALED SYSTEMS DESROSIERS, EVANS —

Hard Cases (30)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17936867 RUNTIME CONTROL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) MODEL PARAMETERS IN A HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING PLATFORM SPIELER, WILLIAM 44d overdue
17508079 MULTI-OBSERVER, CONSENSUS-BASED GROUND TRUTH SMITH, KEVIN LEE 8d
18776400 TEMPLATE ENGINE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING APPLICATIONS ON AN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM SHIN, SEONG-AH A 12d
18636337 TOOLLESS COMPRESSION ATTACHED MEMORY MODULE INSTALLATION IN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEMS DINH, TUAN T 20d
18625317 CONTEXT BASED DIAGNOSTICS IN A HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING PLATFORM BRYAN, JASON B 27d
18777645 BIOS ENTITLEMENT RETENTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOTHERBOARD REPLACEMENT USING SYSTEM DEVICES BAE, JI H 30d
18432625 ENHANCING MESSAGING INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H 34d
18650184 CONTEXT BASED HEALTH VISUALIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT WILSON, YOLANDA L 40d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18777645 BIOS ENTITLEMENT RETENTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOTHERBOARD REPLACEMENT USING SYSTEM DEVICES BAE, JI H 30d
18965186 LIQUID COOLING LEAKAGE ABATEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME CHANG, VINCENT WEN-LIANG —
18928740 ATTESTED CONTENT CREATION BY INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEMS ABYANEH, ALI S —
18927061 SYSTEMS AND METHODS ENABLING MULTIPLE SIZE-BASED TOUCH GESTURES FOR A TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY SCREEN PAN, YONGJIA —
18913521 SYSTEMS AND METHODS PROVIDING PRELIMINARY ESTIMATION OF FIBER LENGTH LEE, JAI M —
18884557 COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMEDIATING PERMISSIONS ISSUES IN DURABLY CREDENTIALED SYSTEMS DESROSIERS, EVANS —
18810226 LAND-BASED SHRIMP AQUACULTURE WALTER, KATHERINE JUNE —
18786759 IN TRANSIT OR IN STORAGE SOFTWARE UPDATING SYSTEM AND METHOD RIVERA, ANIBAL —

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21753
28413
21133
21933
24442
21192
24372
24342
24392
24972

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19239649 CERTIFICATE AUTHORITY BASED OWNERSHIP FOR SECURE DEVICE ONBOARDING DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. CHOUDHURY, RAQIUL A 2444 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 16, 2025
18965186 LIQUID COOLING LEAKAGE ABATEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. CHANG, VINCENT WEN-LIANG 2119 §101§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 02, 2024
18928740 ATTESTED CONTENT CREATION BY INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEMS DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. ABYANEH, ALI S 2437 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 28, 2024
18927061 SYSTEMS AND METHODS ENABLING MULTIPLE SIZE-BASED TOUCH GESTURES FOR A TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY SCREEN DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. PAN, YONGJIA 2118 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 25, 2024
18913521 SYSTEMS AND METHODS PROVIDING PRELIMINARY ESTIMATION OF FIBER LENGTH Dzs Inc. LEE, JAI M 2634 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 11, 2024
18908957 APPLICATION MIGRATION SECURITY FRAMEWORK USING SERVICE MESH AND BI-DIRECTIONAL PROXY DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. BHANDARI, SHREYAJ RAM 2434 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 08, 2024
18884557 COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMEDIATING PERMISSIONS ISSUES IN DURABLY CREDENTIALED SYSTEMS DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. DESROSIERS, EVANS 2491 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 13, 2024
18810226 LAND-BASED SHRIMP AQUACULTURE Anthony P. Brand WALTER, KATHERINE JUNE 3647 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 20, 2024
18786759 IN TRANSIT OR IN STORAGE SOFTWARE UPDATING SYSTEM AND METHOD DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. RIVERA, ANIBAL 2192 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 29, 2024
18777645 BIOS ENTITLEMENT RETENTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOTHERBOARD REPLACEMENT USING SYSTEM DEVICES DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. BAE, JI H 2176 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Jul 19, 2024
18776404 CONFIGURATION FILE CHAINING SYSTEM AND METHOD DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. RAHMAN, FAHMIDA 2175 §103Other Final Rejection 20d Pending Jul 18, 2024
18776400 TEMPLATE ENGINE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING APPLICATIONS ON AN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. SHIN, SEONG-AH A 2659 §101§103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Jul 18, 2024
18731577 SECURITY ASSOCIATION (SA) PLOTTING SYSTEM AND METHOD DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. TOLENTINO, RODERICK 2439 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Jun 03, 2024
18672152 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDLING EMBEDDED CONTROLLER DIAGNOSTIC TESTS USING A HARDWARE-BASED SECURITY ARCHITECTURE DRIVER OF A HETEROGENOUS COMPUTING PLATFORM DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. HUANG, CHENG-FENG 2497 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 23, 2024
18671710 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDLING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN A HOST OPERATING SYSTEM (OS) APPLICATION AND A BATTERY MANAGEMENT UNIT (BMU) THROUGH AN EMBEDDED CONTROLLER (EC) DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. KIM, SISLEY NAHYUN 2196 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 22, 2024
18671701 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAY CONTROL IN A PRE-BOOT ENVIRONMENT DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. MISIURA, BRIAN THOMAS 2175 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 22, 2024
18657453 Thermal Management and Control System Dzs Inc. SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL 4100 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 07, 2024
18652133 THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE FOAM COOLING SYSTEM AND METHOD DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. PAPE, ZACHARY 2841 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 01, 2024
18652158 DIMM HEAT SINK SYSTEM AND METHOD DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. NGO, STEVEN 2835 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending May 01, 2024
18650184 CONTEXT BASED HEALTH VISUALIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. WILSON, YOLANDA L 2113 §101 Final Rejection 40d Pending Apr 30, 2024
18650624 Ultra-Fast Multi-Radio Contextual Discovery DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. CHEEMA, HASAN ALI 2429 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 30, 2024
18650780 Heated Circuit Board Apparatus DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. FREAL, JOHN BRENDAN 2847 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 30, 2024
18643237 AIRCRAFT PANEL REMOVAL TOOL AND WORK AID Textron Innovations Inc. SCRUGGS, ROBERT J 3723 §103 Final Rejection 48d Pending Apr 23, 2024
18636337 TOOLLESS COMPRESSION ATTACHED MEMORY MODULE INSTALLATION IN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEMS DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. DINH, TUAN T 2847 §102§103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Apr 16, 2024
18636537 HEATSINK WITH FINS ARRANGED IN A CONVERGENT-DIVERGENT PATTERN DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. CRUM, JACOB R 2841 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Apr 16, 2024
18625317 CONTEXT BASED DIAGNOSTICS IN A HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING PLATFORM DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. BRYAN, JASON B 2114 §103§112 Final Rejection 27d Pending Apr 03, 2024
18611767 MULTI-LINK COMMUNICATION PATH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING PLATFORM DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. SALAD, ABDULLAHI ELMI 2466 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Mar 21, 2024
18601717 Distributed Hybrid Search for Language-Agnostic, Real-Time Information Retrieval DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. MOSER, BRUCE M 2154 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 11, 2024
18432225 BIDIRECTIONAL ATTESTATION FOR WORKSPACE ORCHESTRATORS DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. CADORNA, CHRISTOPHER PALACA 2444 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Feb 05, 2024
18432625 ENHANCING MESSAGING INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H 2434 §103§112 Final Rejection 34d Pending Feb 05, 2024
18427923 THIRD-PARY EVALUATION OF WORKSPACE ORCHESTRATION SERVICES DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. LI, MENG 2437 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Jan 31, 2024
18423979 COMPUTING RACK ARCHITECTURE SYSTEM AND METHOD DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. CHOWDHURY, ROCKSHANA D 2841 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Jan 26, 2024
18523988 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCIDENT DETECTION AND NOTIFICATION DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. DUNCAN, MARC M 2113 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 30, 2023
18522710 HANDLING ACCIDENT DATA IN AN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM (IHS) UNABLE TO BOOT DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. GUYTON, PHILIP A 2113 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 29, 2023
18493908 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCANNING OPEN SOURCE DESKTOP BUS (D-BUS) CODE DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. BOURZIK, BRAHIM 2191 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 25, 2023
18493863 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING BASEBOARD MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER (BMC) SERVICES OVER A CLOUD ARCHITECTURE DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. CHEN, ZHI 2196 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 25, 2023
18485486 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO INTEGRATE ROOM OR LIGHTING CONTROLS WITH UNIFIED COMMUNICATION SOLUTION CONTEXTS DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. VO, TUNG T 2425 §102 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Oct 12, 2023
18485537 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEMPORARY AND GROUP-BASED PAIRING OF WIRELESS SHARED DEVICES DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. MIAH, LITON 2642 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Oct 12, 2023
18476377 REPLACEMENT OF VIDEO BARS IN CONFERENCE ROOMS DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH 2691 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 28, 2023
18449920 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEMPORARY PRIVILEGED CLUSTER ACCESS DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. POTRATZ, DANIEL B 2400 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 15, 2023
18366082 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYSTEMATIZING LINKS INCLUDED IN EMAIL MESSAGES DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. CHANG, TOM Y 2455 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Aug 07, 2023
18364296 SPLITTING PAYLOADS ACROSS OUT-OF-BAND (OOB) PACKETS IN HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING PLATFORMS DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. ZAIDI, IQBAL 2464 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 02, 2023
18347679 POLICY DRIVEN INTELLIGENT TELEMETRY CONTROLLER DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. RYLANDER, BART I 2124 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 06, 2023
18335280 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO OBFUSCATE THE PHYSICAL SECURITY ID (PSID) ON A DATA STORAGE DRIVE LABEL DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN 3631 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 15, 2023
18177155 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO VERIFY TRUSTWORTHINESS OF AN IHS USING SYSTEM TIME DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. MOHAMMADI, FAHIMEH M 2439 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 02, 2023
18172994 MULTIPLE BMC LOAD SHARING SYSTEM AND METHOD DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. HUARACHA, WILLY W 2197 §103DP Non-Final OA 28d Pending Feb 22, 2023
18171893 CONTEXT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPDM-ENABLED DEVICES DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. OKEKE, IZUNNA 2497 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 21, 2023
18168600 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING DEVICE LIGHTING USING HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING PLATFORMS DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. SANDERS, JOSHUA T 2119 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 14, 2023
18166657 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERRUPTED WORKFLOW NOTIFICATION AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT IN HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING PLATFORMS DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. VU, TUAN A 2193 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 09, 2023
18165406 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING NOTIFICATIONS IN RESPONSE TO MULTI-USER DETECTION IN HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING PLATFORMS DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. HU, SELINA ELISA 2193 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Feb 07, 2023

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94.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by Fogarty LLP were allowed, across 1,921 applications in USPTO records.

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60 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 5 clients, before 60 examiners in 44 art units.

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