Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 1 client • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Patent Capital Group - McAfee, LLC has managed 922 career applications, specializing in Networking & Security. The firm achieves an exceptionally high resolved allowance rate of 97.59 percent.
The firm averages 5.4 office actions per allowance, suggesting a highly persistent and detailed prosecution strategy. Currently, there are 3 pending office actions. These 3 active matters are part of a practice that has successfully secured grants for 97.59 percent of its 922 career applications, averaging 5.4 interactions per allowance.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (17%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAMPAKESAN, BADRI NARAYANAN | 1 | 91.0% | +55.3% |
| JEUDY, JOSNEL | 1 | 83.8% | -16.1% |
| DONABED, NINOS | 1 | 75.3% | +65.0% |
| LIN, SHERMAN L | 1 | 29.2% | +37.1% |
| PATEL, NIRAV B | 1 | 72.3% | +41.1% |
| SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N | 1 | 6.3% | +8.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19074800 | USER ACTIVITY-TRIGGERED URL SCAN | CHAMPAKESAN, BADRI NARAYANAN | — |
| 18819135 | OBJECT INSPECTION VIA OPERATING SYSTEM SHARE FUNCTION | JEUDY, JOSNEL | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17400204 | Remediation of Stale Online Accounts and Digital Exhaust | SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N | 30d |
| 18649806 | DEVICE IDENTIFICATION | DONABED, NINOS | — |
| 18542241 | WELLNESS DETECTION AND RESPONSE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES | LIN, SHERMAN L | — |
| 17401429 | Web Conference Security | PATEL, NIRAV 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19074800 | USER ACTIVITY-TRIGGERED URL SCAN | CHAMPAKESAN, BADRI NARAYANAN | — |
| 18649806 | DEVICE IDENTIFICATION | DONABED, NINOS | — |
| 18542241 | WELLNESS DETECTION AND RESPONSE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES | LIN, SHERMAN L | — |
| 17401429 | Web Conference Security | PATEL, NIRAV B | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| McAfee, LLC | 6 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2438 | 1 |
| 2444 | 1 |
| 2447 | 1 |
| 6214 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18649806 | DEVICE IDENTIFICATION | Mcafee, LLC | DONABED, NINOS | 2444 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18542241 | WELLNESS DETECTION AND RESPONSE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES | Mcafee, LLC | LIN, SHERMAN L | 2447 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 17401429 | Web Conference Security | Mcafee, LLC | PATEL, NIRAV B | 6214 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2021 |
| 17400204 | Remediation of Stale Online Accounts and Digital Exhaust | Mcafee, LLC | SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Aug 12, 2021 |
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