Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security
63 pending office actions • 2 clients • 61 examiners • 53 art units • 5 of 63 (8%) have an AI response strategy ready • 131 patents granted in the last 365 days
Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP-Microsoft has 62 pending office actions in Computing & Software and 35753 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 83.86%, with an average of 3.21 office actions per allowance.
The reported application base provides broad context for the firm’s computing and software prosecution record. The allowance rate summarizes resolved outcomes, while the office-action average indicates that allowed matters generally require multiple examination exchanges. Practitioners can use the figures to plan responses involving software functionality, system interaction, and claim eligibility issues. The aggregate data does not show which client matters or rejection categories drive the reported results.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 6 (10%) |
| §101 + other | 14 (22%) |
| §103 only | 28 (44%) |
| §102 only | 2 (3%) |
| §112 only | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 12 (19%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HERRING, LISA L | 2 | 72.9% | +17.2% |
| ALATA, YASSIN | 2 | 66.8% | +14.6% |
| MAHMUD, FARHAN | 1 | 56.8% | +9.7% |
| HOANG, SON T | 1 | 83.7% | +34.4% |
| LU, KUEN S | 1 | 85.2% | +15.4% |
| GUNDRY, STEPHEN T | 1 | 91.8% | +8.3% |
| OBERLY, VAN HONG | 1 | 75.2% | +15.7% |
| TURRIATE GASTULO, JUAN CARLOS | 1 | 70.7% | +35.1% |
| GURSKI, AMANDA KAREN | 1 | 33.8% | +29.1% |
| HO, DAO Q | 1 | 83.1% | +32.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19270991 | PRIVACY AWARE SOURCE CODE | GUNDRY, STEPHEN T | — |
| 19226268 | Preventing Illicit Data Transfer and Storage | HO, DAO Q | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18476038 | CONFIGURATION VERIFICATION USING VARIABLE INPUTS AND HASH FUNCTIONS | SHEPPERD, ERIC W | 97d overdue |
| 18456021 | MINING PATTERNS IN A HIGH-DIMENSIONAL SPARSE FEATURE SPACE | VUONG, CAO DANG | 86d overdue |
| 18802833 | STORAGE POLICY CHANGE USAGE ESTIMATION | PATEL, KAUSHIKKUMAR M | 60d overdue |
| 18421951 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A WORKFLOW USING RESPONSES TO AI-GENERATED INQUIRIES AS INPUTS TO A GENERATIVE AI MODEL | SWARTZ, STEPHEN S | 31d overdue |
| 18982882 | AUTOMATED INCIDENT INVESTIGATION | KUDIRKA, JOSEPH R | 22d |
| 17674173 | EXPOSING CONTROL TO ENABLE INTERACTIVE SCHEDULERS FOR CLOUD CLUSTER ORCHESTRATION SYSTEMS | SEYE, ABDOU K | 49d |
| 19094188 | Untitled | MAHMUD, FARHAN | — |
| 19348937 | LARGE-SCALE DENSITY-BASED CLUSTERING | HOANG, SON T | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19348937 | LARGE-SCALE DENSITY-BASED CLUSTERING | HOANG, SON T | — |
| 19332214 | THREADING CHATS WITH APPLICATION ACTIVITY | LU, KUEN S | — |
| 19271198 | TRANSACTIONAL DATABASE LAYER ABOVE A DISTRIBUTED KEY/VALUE STORE | OBERLY, VAN HONG | — |
| 19252812 | SYNCHRONIZING FILE DATA BETWEEN COMPUTER SYSTEMS | TURRIATE GASTULO, JUAN CARLOS | — |
| 19246506 | GENERATING A MITIGATION WORKFLOW FOR MITIGATING A TECHNICAL ISSUE OF A COMPUTING SERVICE USING HISTORICAL MITIGATION WORKFLOWS | GURSKI, AMANDA KAREN | — |
| 19226268 | Preventing Illicit Data Transfer and Storage | HO, DAO Q | — |
| 18993657 | HOLLOW CORE OPTICAL FIBRE DRAWING METHOD WITH MODIFIED DRAWDOWN | HERRING, LISA L | — |
| 18950398 | SEALING OF A CANE ASSEMBLY USING A RAPID, HEAT CURING SEALING MATERIAL FOR HOLLOW CORE FIBER MANUFACTURING | HERRING, LISA L | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Microsoft | 61 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON | 2 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2169 | 2 |
| 2165 | 2 |
| 2458 | 2 |
| 1741 | 2 |
| 2426 | 2 |
| 2176 | 2 |
| 2492 | 2 |
| 2481 | 1 |
| 2447 | 1 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19094188 | Untitled | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | MAHMUD, FARHAN | 2481 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 19348937 | LARGE-SCALE DENSITY-BASED CLUSTERING | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | HOANG, SON T | 2169 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19332214 | THREADING CHATS WITH APPLICATION ACTIVITY | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | LU, KUEN S | 2165 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2025 |
| 19270991 | PRIVACY AWARE SOURCE CODE | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | GUNDRY, STEPHEN T | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2025 | |
| 19271198 | TRANSACTIONAL DATABASE LAYER ABOVE A DISTRIBUTED KEY/VALUE STORE | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | OBERLY, VAN HONG | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2025 | |
| 19252812 | SYNCHRONIZING FILE DATA BETWEEN COMPUTER SYSTEMS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | TURRIATE GASTULO, JUAN CARLOS | 2447 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19246506 | GENERATING A MITIGATION WORKFLOW FOR MITIGATING A TECHNICAL ISSUE OF A COMPUTING SERVICE USING HISTORICAL MITIGATION WORKFLOWS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | GURSKI, AMANDA KAREN | 3623 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19226268 | Preventing Illicit Data Transfer and Storage | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | HO, DAO Q | 2431 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19223406 | LOCAL NON-VOLATILE MEMORY EXPRESS VIRTUALIZATION DEVICE | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | OBERLY, ERIC T | 2184 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19220561 | SCALABLE SOCKETS FOR QUIC | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | DAILEY, THOMAS J | 2458 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19209176 | RESOURCE ANOMALY DETECTION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | MCBETH, WILLIAM C | 2449 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 18993657 | HOLLOW CORE OPTICAL FIBRE DRAWING METHOD WITH MODIFIED DRAWDOWN | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON | HERRING, LISA L | 1741 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19003515 | Systems and Methods for Disaster Recovery for Edge Devices | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | XU, MICHAEL | 2113 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18986105 | Managing Application Constraints across Platforms | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | SHEHNI, GHAZAL B | 2499 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18982882 | AUTOMATED INCIDENT INVESTIGATION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | KUDIRKA, JOSEPH R | 2114 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | AI Ready | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18975844 | AUTOMATICALLY ASSISTING CONVERSATIONS USING GRAPH DATABASE | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | NEWAY, SAMUEL G | 2657 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18950398 | SEALING OF A CANE ASSEMBLY USING A RAPID, HEAT CURING SEALING MATERIAL FOR HOLLOW CORE FIBER MANUFACTURING | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | HERRING, LISA L | 1741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18939228 | SUCCESS RATE INDICATOR SOLUTION FOR PIPELINES | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | KENNEDY, LESA M | 2458 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18933632 | PROCESSOR PERFORMANCE ACCELERATION USING HARDWARE-ENHANCED MULTIPLY-ACCUMULATE STREAMING | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | ALLI, KASIM A | 2183 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18925391 | MULTI-NETWORK ROUTING OF FULL MOTION VIDEO STREAMS IN ONE-WAY TRANSFER SYSTEMS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | ALATA, YASSIN | 2426 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18925504 | ROUTING OF ENHANCED VIDEO STREAMS THROUGH LEGACY FILTERING APPLIANCES | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | ALATA, YASSIN | 2426 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18906039 | SOFTWARE ANALYSIS WORK ALLOCATION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 | |
| 18890395 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ISOLATED AI AGENTS AND FILES | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | TOUGHIRY, ARYAN D | 2165 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18827372 | LOW COMPLEXITY AND LOW LATENCY IMPLEMENTATION FOR CELLULAR FRONTHAULING | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | LIU, LI | 2634 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18811212 | AUTOMATED ON-SCREEN WINDOWS ARRANGEMENTS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | NGUYEN, PHUONG H | 2174 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18802833 | STORAGE POLICY CHANGE USAGE ESTIMATION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | PATEL, KAUSHIKKUMAR M | 2138 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18837230 | OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY FOR HOLLOW CORE OPTICAL FIBRES | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON | XING, CHRISTINA ILONA | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18779171 | Propagating Origin Information For Applications During Application Installation | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | KASSA, ELIZABETH | 2457 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18769062 | TAMPER-RESISTANT LOG VERIFICATION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | TROTTER, SCOTT S | 3696 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18759776 | PROTECTION-LEVEL BASED MECHANISM FOR SECURING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | WORKU, SARON MATTHEWOS | 2408 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18742627 | DYNAMIC EVALUATION SYSTEM FOR RESPONSIBLE AI IN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR | 2655 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18678365 | CENTRALIZED PLATFORM-AGNOSTIC POWER LIMIT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | HARRINGTON, CHERI L. | 2176 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18676151 | ADAPTIVE NETWORK RESOURCE ALLOCATION USING APPLICATION PRIORITIZATION AND DEPRIORITIZATION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | CHU JOY, JORGE A | 2195 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18674908 | COMPRESSING AND TRANSFORMING VECTOR OPERATIONS IN AN AI MODEL | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | BLANCHETTE, JOSHUA B | 3684 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2024 |
| 18666099 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT OF SYSTEM ON A CHIP | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | WU, QING YUAN | 2199 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18661342 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOURCE SYNCHRONOUS IMPLEMENTATION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | MEMULA, SURESH | 2851 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18642379 | SYSTEM-INTEGRATED SOLUTION FOR IO DEVICE EXTENDED CONTROL WITHOUT OPERATING SYSTEM DRIVER INVOLVEMENT | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | UNELUS, ERNEST | 2181 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18638515 | PROCESSING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS ACCORDING TO RECIPIENT POINTS OF VIEW | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | PATEL, HITESHKUMAR R | 3667 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18633365 | AI-BASED GENERATION OF A COMPUTER PROGRAM USING COMPILER-GATHERED SEMANTIC INFORMATION ABOUT TARGET CODE | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | KANG, INSUN | 2193 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18622000 | HYBRID DATA REPLICATION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | LOONAN, ERIC T | 2137 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d overdue | AI Ready | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18621796 | DYNAMIC THREAD STATES | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | RIEGLER, PATRICK F | 2171 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | AI Ready | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18608593 | SOURCE CODE COLLABORATION VIA REPLICATED DATA TYPES | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | SOUGH, HYUNG SUB | 2192 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18605364 | ENTERPRISE KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS FOR ENHANCED PROMPTS TO GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) SYSTEM | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | DAYE, CHELCIE L | 2161 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18602904 | Two-Stage Suppression for Multi-Class, Multi-Object Detection and Tracking Systems | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | DESIRE, GREGORY M | 2676 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18599453 | CERTIFICATE-BASED IDENTITY VERIFICATION FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | FARROW, FELICIA | 2400 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18444947 | PROCESSOR RESOURCE ISOLATION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | AHMED, ZUBAIR | 4100 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
| 18437975 | DOMAIN-SPECIFIC WORD EMBEDDING MODEL | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | HAN, JOSEP | 2122 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18421951 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A WORKFLOW USING RESPONSES TO AI-GENERATED INQUIRIES AS INPUTS TO A GENERATIVE AI MODEL | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | SWARTZ, STEPHEN S | 3625 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 18414641 | INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACE ELEMENT SELECTION USING EYE-GAZE | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | ORR, HENRY W | 2145 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18544331 | CONVERTING PAGES WRITTEN IN A PAGE STORAGE DURING A USER SESSION TO PAGE-EMBEDDED BLOCKS IN A BLOCK STORAGE FOR READING | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | KIM, ELIAS YOUNG | 2135 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial83.9% of resolved applications prosecuted by Womble Bond Dickinson (Us) Llp-Microsoft were allowed, across 35,753 applications in USPTO records.
3.21 office actions per allowed application on average.
63 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 2 clients, before 61 examiners in 53 art units.
