Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Patent Capital Group - Mcafee, LLC

10 pending office actions • 1 client • 10 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=922 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

97.6%
Allowance Rate
n=922
+0.58σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=922
5.4
OAs to Allowance
n=849
+0.84σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=849
1351 days
Time to Allowance
n=849
+0.7pp
Interview Lift
n=922
62.2%
RCE Rate
n=922
3.2%
Appeal Rate
n=922

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

93.8%
§101 Overcome
n=419
92.4%
§102 Overcome
n=355
94.0%
§103 Overcome
n=664
92.0%
§112 Overcome
n=263

Specialization & Scale

H04L, G06F, H04W
Top CPC Subclasses
86%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=922
0
Practitioners
n=922
Apps / Practitioner
n=922 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)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.

3
Hard (30%)
6
Medium (60%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (10%)
§101 + other1 (10%)
§103 only5 (50%)
Double-patenting + other1 (10%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (10%)
No statute on record1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
9
Information Tech
90% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
10% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHAMPAKESAN, BADRI NARAYANAN 1 91.2% +55.4%
JEUDY, JOSNEL 1 83.7% -16.2%
DONABED, NINOS 1 75.5% +66.4%
HARRIS, CHRISTOPHER C 1 76.6% +25.3%
CAO, DIEM K 1 80.3% +19.2%
UDDIN, MD I 1 77.3% +73.7%
LIN, SHERMAN L 1 29.1% +36.6%
HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS 1 78.3% +17.6%
MAHMOUDI, RODMAN ALEXANDER 1 79.8% +16.7%
SAVENKOV, VADIM 1 61.1% +20.8%

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
19074800 USER ACTIVITY-TRIGGERED URL SCAN CHAMPAKESAN, BADRI NARAYANAN
18819135 OBJECT INSPECTION VIA OPERATING SYSTEM SHARE FUNCTION JEUDY, JOSNEL

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
18532287 USER SPACE FIREWALL MANAGER HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS 5d overdue
18401191 Micro-Clustering System and Method UDDIN, MD I 70d
18649806 DEVICE IDENTIFICATION DONABED, NINOS
18542241 WELLNESS DETECTION AND RESPONSE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES LIN, SHERMAN L

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
16653702 PRE-LAUNCH PROCESS VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT SAVENKOV, VADIM 53d overdue
18532287 USER SPACE FIREWALL MANAGER HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS 5d overdue
18401191 Micro-Clustering System and Method UDDIN, MD I 70d
19074800 USER ACTIVITY-TRIGGERED URL SCAN CHAMPAKESAN, BADRI NARAYANAN
18649806 DEVICE IDENTIFICATION DONABED, NINOS
18645150 MANAGED SOFTWARE REMEDIATION HARRIS, CHRISTOPHER C
18642598 DYNAMIC PROCESS CRITICALITY SCORING CAO, DIEM K
18542241 WELLNESS DETECTION AND RESPONSE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES LIN, SHERMAN L

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
McAfee, LLC 10

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24322
24381
24441
21961
21691
24471
24911
24991

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19074800 USER ACTIVITY-TRIGGERED URL SCAN Mcafee, LLC CHAMPAKESAN, BADRI NARAYANAN §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Mar 10, 2025
18819135 OBJECT INSPECTION VIA OPERATING SYSTEM SHARE FUNCTION Mcafee, LLC JEUDY, JOSNEL 2438 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 29, 2024
18649806 DEVICE IDENTIFICATION Mcafee, LLC DONABED, NINOS 2444 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 29, 2024
18645150 MANAGED SOFTWARE REMEDIATION Mcafee, LLC HARRIS, CHRISTOPHER C 2432 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 24, 2024
18642598 DYNAMIC PROCESS CRITICALITY SCORING Mcafee, LLC CAO, DIEM K 2196 Other Non-Final OA Pending Apr 22, 2024
18401191 Micro-Clustering System and Method Mcafee, LLC UDDIN, MD I 2169 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Dec 29, 2023
18542241 WELLNESS DETECTION AND RESPONSE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES Mcafee, LLC LIN, SHERMAN L 2447 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 15, 2023
18532287 USER SPACE FIREWALL MANAGER Mcafee, LLC HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS 2491 §102§103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Dec 07, 2023
17405828 AUTOMATED HARDENING OF SENSITIVE TRANSACTIONS Mcafee, LLC MAHMOUDI, RODMAN ALEXANDER 2499 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 18, 2021
16653702 PRE-LAUNCH PROCESS VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT Mcafee, LLC SAVENKOV, VADIM 2432 §103 Final Rejection 53d overdue Pending Oct 15, 2019

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