Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Vista Ip Law Group, LLP (Nutanix)

5 pending office actions • 1 client • 4 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
5
Information Tech
100% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
AYERS, MICHAEL W 2 70.2% +53.7%
PRIFTI, AUREL 1 83.0% +22.3%
PEUGH, BRIAN R 1 92.1% +1.0%
SEYE, ABDOU K 1 82.3% +27.5%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17710342 VIRTUAL MACHINE REMOTE HOST MEMORY ACCESSES SEYE, ABDOU K 72d overdue
18791271 CONTAINERIZED CLOUD-NATIVE CLUSTER STORAGE TARGETS PEUGH, BRIAN R 60d overdue
18806617 BOOTSTRAPPING A MICROSERVICES REGISTRY PRIFTI, AUREL 2d overdue

Interview Candidates (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17710342 VIRTUAL MACHINE REMOTE HOST MEMORY ACCESSES SEYE, ABDOU K 72d overdue
18217438 INFRASTRUCTURE-INDEPENDENT SCALING OF HYPERCONVERGED COMPUTING NODES AYERS, MICHAEL W 46d overdue
17976596 HIGH PERFORMANCE NODE-TO-NODE PROCESS MIGRATION AYERS, MICHAEL W 43d overdue
18806617 BOOTSTRAPPING A MICROSERVICES REGISTRY PRIFTI, AUREL 2d overdue

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
NUTANIX, INC. 5

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21952
21751
21331
21981

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18806617 BOOTSTRAPPING A MICROSERVICES REGISTRY Nutanix, Inc. PRIFTI, AUREL 2175 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Aug 15, 2024
18791271 CONTAINERIZED CLOUD-NATIVE CLUSTER STORAGE TARGETS Nutanix, Inc. PEUGH, BRIAN R 2133 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2024
18217438 INFRASTRUCTURE-INDEPENDENT SCALING OF HYPERCONVERGED COMPUTING NODES Nutanix, Inc. AYERS, MICHAEL W 2195 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
17976596 HIGH PERFORMANCE NODE-TO-NODE PROCESS MIGRATION Nutanix, Inc. AYERS, MICHAEL W 2195 §103 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Oct 28, 2022
17710342 VIRTUAL MACHINE REMOTE HOST MEMORY ACCESSES Nutanix, Inc. SEYE, ABDOU K 2198 §103 Final Rejection 72d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2022

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