Technology area: Networking & Security
10 pending office actions • 2 clients • 10 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
Strategic Patents, P.C. - SPHS has 10 pending office actions in Networking & Security and 2074 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 73.36%, showing that most resolved matters reached allowance, although the record also contains a substantial share of other outcomes.
The average is 3.41 office actions per allowance. This indicates that allowed matters generally involved repeated examination exchanges. The active docket supplies a current workload measure, while the career application total, allowance rate, and action average together provide historical context for evaluating prosecution in Networking & Security.
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 + other | 2 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (10%) |
| §102 only | 3 (30%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOODCHILD, WILLIAM J | 1 | 82.8% | +14.4% |
| TRAN, JIMMY H | 1 | 79.5% | +17.2% |
| KORSAK, OLEG | 1 | 85.7% | +7.3% |
| JHAVERI, JAYESH M | 1 | 82.9% | +30.6% |
| RAHIM, MONJUR | 1 | 84.6% | +16.2% |
| POLTORAK, PIOTR | 1 | 74.8% | +30.4% |
| ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR | 1 | 77.3% | +6.9% |
| EYERS, DUSTIN D | 1 | 58.2% | +22.7% |
| PENA-SANTANA, TANIA M | 1 | 72.3% | -4.9% |
| SAVENKOV, VADIM | 1 | 60.3% | +20.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19253384 | COMPUTER AUGMENTED THREAT EVALUATION | GOODCHILD, WILLIAM J | — |
| 19096234 | PROGRESSIVE AUGMENTATION OF THREAT TIMELINE VISUALIZATION | KORSAK, OLEG | — |
| 19071591 | AUGMENTED SECURITY RECOGNITION TASKS | JHAVERI, JAYESH M | — |
| 19067954 | Rapid exposure detections in cloud computing environments | RAHIM, MONJUR | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18517321 | DETECTING TAMPERING WITH HOSTED SERVICES | PENA-SANTANA, TANIA M | 16d overdue |
| 19194613 | VALIDATION OF ZTNA CONFIGURATION FOR A MULTI-TENANT PROXY ENVIRONMENT | TRAN, JIMMY H | — |
| 19004866 | DETECTING KERNEL EXPLOITS | POLTORAK, PIOTR | — |
| 18772026 | SECURE FIREWALL CONFIGURATIONS | ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR | — |
| 18653769 | AGILE POLICY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | EYERS, DUSTIN D | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19253384 | COMPUTER AUGMENTED THREAT EVALUATION | GOODCHILD, WILLIAM J | — |
| 19194613 | VALIDATION OF ZTNA CONFIGURATION FOR A MULTI-TENANT PROXY ENVIRONMENT | TRAN, JIMMY H | — |
| 19071591 | AUGMENTED SECURITY RECOGNITION TASKS | JHAVERI, JAYESH M | — |
| 19067954 | Rapid exposure detections in cloud computing environments | RAHIM, MONJUR | — |
| 19004866 | DETECTING KERNEL EXPLOITS | POLTORAK, PIOTR | — |
| 18653769 | AGILE POLICY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | EYERS, DUSTIN D | — |
| 16129087 | DYNAMIC FILTERING OF ENDPOINT EVENT STREAMS | SAVENKOV, VADIM | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| SOPHOS LIMITED | 9 |
| Sophos Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2433 | 2 |
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2451 | 1 |
| 2492 | 1 |
| 2436 | 1 |
| 2496 | 1 |
| 2164 | 1 |
| 2443 | 1 |
| 2432 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19253384 | COMPUTER AUGMENTED THREAT EVALUATION | Sophos Limited | GOODCHILD, WILLIAM J | 2431 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19194613 | VALIDATION OF ZTNA CONFIGURATION FOR A MULTI-TENANT PROXY ENVIRONMENT | Sophos Limited | TRAN, JIMMY H | 2451 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19096234 | PROGRESSIVE AUGMENTATION OF THREAT TIMELINE VISUALIZATION | Sophos Limited | KORSAK, OLEG | 2492 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19071591 | AUGMENTED SECURITY RECOGNITION TASKS | Sophos Limited | JHAVERI, JAYESH M | 2433 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19067954 | Rapid exposure detections in cloud computing environments | Sophos Limited | RAHIM, MONJUR | 2436 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 02, 2025 |
| 19004866 | DETECTING KERNEL EXPLOITS | Sophos Inc. | POLTORAK, PIOTR | 2433 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18772026 | SECURE FIREWALL CONFIGURATIONS | Sophos Limited | ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR | 2496 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18653769 | AGILE POLICY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | Sophos Limited | EYERS, DUSTIN D | 2164 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18517321 | DETECTING TAMPERING WITH HOSTED SERVICES | Sophos Limited | PENA-SANTANA, TANIA M | 2443 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 16129087 | DYNAMIC FILTERING OF ENDPOINT EVENT STREAMS | Sophos Limited | SAVENKOV, VADIM | 2432 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2018 |
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Start Free Trial73.4% of resolved applications prosecuted by Strategic Patents, P.C. - Sphs were allowed, across 2,074 applications in USPTO records.
3.41 office actions per allowed application on average.
10 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 2 clients, before 10 examiners in 9 art units.
