Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
54 pending office actions • 1 client • 53 examiners • 42 art units • 20 of 54 (37%) have an AI response strategy ready • 112 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 54 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. 54 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 | 8 (15%) |
| §103 only | 38 (70%) |
| §102 only | 4 (7%) |
| §112 only | 1 (2%) |
| No statute on record | 3 (6%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ULRICH, NICHOLAS S | 2 | 69.4% | +7.5% |
| SHEN, YUZHEN | 1 | 70.7% | +13.2% |
| ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR | 1 | 78.7% | +7.8% |
| KUDIRKA, JOSEPH R | 1 | 90.9% | +10.1% |
| RIAD, AMINE | 1 | 87.5% | +6.0% |
| WENDMAGEGN, GIRUMSEW | 1 | 76.8% | +21.2% |
| KANAAN, SIMON P | 1 | 82.8% | +15.8% |
| MEKY, MOUSTAFA M | 1 | 93.4% | +5.2% |
| PATEL, KAUSHIKKUMAR M | 1 | 81.7% | +0.1% |
| SHOLEMAN, ABU S | 1 | 78.5% | +27.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18825532 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING SOFTWARE LICENSING INFORMATION VIA A TRUSTED PLATFORM MODULE | KANAAN, SIMON P | 30d |
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 |
| 18589850 | SOURCE CODE HISTORY GENERATION | ST LEGER, GEOFFREY R | 50d overdue |
| 18441714 | IMPLICIT PROMPT REWRIWTING | NGUYEN, QUYNH H | 30d overdue |
| 18982856 | AUTOMATED INCIDENT INVESTIGATION | RIAD, AMINE | 9d overdue |
| 17934689 | REDUCED USER AVAILABILITY | SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | 8d overdue |
| 17804424 | EASING CROSS-GEO COLLABORATION WITH INTELLIGENT SCHEDULING | ANDERSON, FOLASHADE | 14d |
| 18982882 | AUTOMATED INCIDENT INVESTIGATION | KUDIRKA, JOSEPH R | 22d |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18793545 | SECURELY AND RELIABLY TRANSMITTING MESSAGES BETWEEN NETWORK DEVICES | SHOLEMAN, ABU S | 91d overdue |
| 19055329 | UNIVERSAL HIGHLIGHTER FOR CONTEXTUAL NOTETAKING | SHEN, YUZHEN | 71d overdue |
| 18965797 | PERSONALIZED ADAPTIVE MEETING PLAYBACK | WENDMAGEGN, GIRUMSEW | 16d overdue |
| 18982882 | AUTOMATED INCIDENT INVESTIGATION | KUDIRKA, JOSEPH R | 22d |
| 18825532 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING SOFTWARE LICENSING INFORMATION VIA A TRUSTED PLATFORM MODULE | KANAAN, SIMON P | 30d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Microsoft | 54 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2192 | 5 |
| 2496 | 2 |
| 2492 | 2 |
| 2179 | 2 |
| 2693 | 2 |
| 2874 | 2 |
| 2153 | 2 |
| 2152 | 2 |
| 2198 | 2 |
| 2623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19055329 | UNIVERSAL HIGHLIGHTER FOR CONTEXTUAL NOTETAKING | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | SHEN, YUZHEN | 2623 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | AI Ready | Feb 17, 2025 |
| 19012068 | MITIGATION OF RANSOMWARE IN INTEGRATED, ISOLATED APPLICATIONS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR | 2496 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18982882 | AUTOMATED INCIDENT INVESTIGATION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | KUDIRKA, JOSEPH R | 2114 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 22d | AI Ready | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18982856 | AUTOMATED INCIDENT INVESTIGATION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | RIAD, AMINE | 2113 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18965797 | PERSONALIZED ADAPTIVE MEETING PLAYBACK | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | WENDMAGEGN, GIRUMSEW | 2484 | Other | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18825532 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING SOFTWARE LICENSING INFORMATION VIA A TRUSTED PLATFORM MODULE | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | KANAAN, SIMON P | 2407 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18809420 | Bidirectional Application Programming Interface Enabling Operational Action Functionality In One-Way Transfer Systems | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | MEKY, MOUSTAFA M | 2457 | Other | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18802833 | STORAGE POLICY CHANGE USAGE ESTIMATION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | PATEL, KAUSHIKKUMAR M | 2138 | Other | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18793545 | SECURELY AND RELIABLY TRANSMITTING MESSAGES BETWEEN NETWORK DEVICES | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | SHOLEMAN, ABU S | 2496 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 91d overdue | AI Ready | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18785740 | VIRTUALIZING DISCRETE AND MIGRATABLE TRUSTED PLATFORM MODULES (TPMS) | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | DAVIS, ZACHARY A | 2492 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | AI Ready | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18759776 | PROTECTION-LEVEL BASED MECHANISM FOR SECURING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | WORKU, SARON MATTHEWOS | 2408 | §102 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18743312 | Sensory and Response Machine Learning Modeling | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | WANG, LIANG CHE A | 2447 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18742627 | DYNAMIC EVALUATION SYSTEM FOR RESPONSIBLE AI IN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR | 2655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18678202 | MULTI-SOURCE AUDIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | TIEU, BINH KIEN | 2694 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18664005 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADVANCED COPY AND PASTE | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | ULRICH, NICHOLAS S | 2179 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | AI Ready | May 14, 2024 |
| 18642379 | SYSTEM-INTEGRATED SOLUTION FOR IO DEVICE EXTENDED CONTROL WITHOUT OPERATING SYSTEM DRIVER INVOLVEMENT | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | UNELUS, ERNEST | 2181 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18637046 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WEIGHTED IDENTITY RETRIEVAL | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | TOUGHIRY, ARYAN D | 2165 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | AI Ready | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18629764 | AUTOMATED CLOUD BUILDOUT AND/OR RUN STATE MANAGEMENT USING CLOUD HOSTED ORCHESTRATION OF CONFIGURATION AND INSTALLATION OF CLOUD SERVICES | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | KABIR, MOHAMMAD H | 2192 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | AI Ready | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18622595 | SMART APPLICATION WINDOW LAYOUTS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | ULRICH, NICHOLAS S | 2179 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 30d 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 |
| 18622000 | HYBRID DATA REPLICATION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | LOONAN, ERIC T | 2137 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | AI Ready | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18591572 | AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION OF BENCHMARK SECURITY CONTROLS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | ZOUBAIR, NOURA | 2434 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | AI Ready | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18589850 | SOURCE CODE HISTORY GENERATION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | ST LEGER, GEOFFREY R | 2192 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 50d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18441714 | IMPLICIT PROMPT REWRIWTING | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | NGUYEN, QUYNH H | 2693 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | AI Ready | Feb 14, 2024 |
| 18400323 | TRACK AWARE DETECTION FOR OBJECT TRACKING SYSTEMS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | ALAVI, AMIR | 2668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 58d overdue | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18537291 | CASCADED VIDEO ANALYTICS FOR EDGE COMPUTING | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | HO, ANDREW N | 2169 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18564899 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TERMINATING OPTICAL FIBRE CABLES | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | PETKOVSEK, DANIEL | 2874 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18517223 | ACTION SEQUENCE GENERATION FOR INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE TESTING | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | AGUILERA, TODD | 2192 | §103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | AI Ready | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18518119 | INTERLOCK MECHANISM FOR OPTICAL FIBERS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | MOONEY, MICHAEL P | 2874 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18516245 | PREDICTIVELY GENERATING A PAYLOAD FOR AN INCREMENTAL BUILD BASED ON CODE CHANGES IN A CODE BASE | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | TRAN, TRAVIS VIET | 2191 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18508070 | TRANSACTION RESPONSE AGGREGATION FOR NETWORK DATA COMMUNICATION | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | POPE, KHARYE | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18476038 | CONFIGURATION VERIFICATION USING VARIABLE INPUTS AND HASH FUNCTIONS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | SHEPPERD, ERIC W | 2492 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 97d overdue | AI Ready | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18456021 | MINING PATTERNS IN A HIGH-DIMENSIONAL SPARSE FEATURE SPACE | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | VUONG, CAO DANG | 2153 | §101 | Final Rejection | 86d overdue | AI Ready | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 18450856 | USING TIMESTAMPS TO PREVENT DATA TAMPERING | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | NGUYEN, TRONG H | 2436 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | AI Ready | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18340191 | MAINTAINING LIVE STATE OF VIRTUAL FUNCTION DURING VIRTUAL MACHINE SAVE AND RESTORE OPERATIONS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | KIM, DONG U | 2197 | §112 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18209906 | CONTROLLER-LESS QUICK TACTILE FEEDBACK KEYBOARD | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | TUGBANG, ANTHONY D | 2896 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18334768 | PROACTIVE EXECUTION SYSTEM | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | NAHRA, SELENA SABAH | 2192 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | AI Ready | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18332672 | UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR (URL) EMBEDDINGS FOR ALIGNING PARALLEL DOCUMENTS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM | 2166 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
| 18203494 | STREAMLINING MOBILITY BETWEEN DIFFERENT G-NETWORKS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | MAPA, MICHAEL Y | 2645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18317530 | CODE SCANNING AND OPERATION CONTROL | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | BUI, HANH THI MINH | 2192 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
| 18317459 | CONTEXTUAL INSIGHT SYSTEM | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | GIULIANI, GIUSEPPI J | 2153 | §103 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
| 18117314 | OPTIMIZING DATA TO IMPROVE LATENCY | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | MASTERS, KRISTEN MICHELLE | 2659 | §103 | Final Rejection | 97d overdue | Pending | Mar 03, 2023 |
| 18178124 | ATTRIBUTION VERIFICATION FOR ANSWERS AND SUMMARIES GENERATED FROM LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS (LLMS) | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M | 2653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Mar 03, 2023 |
| 17934689 | REDUCED USER AVAILABILITY | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | 3625 | §101 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Sep 23, 2022 |
| 17885964 | GEO-SCALE ANALYTICS WITH BANDWIDTH AND REGULATORY CONSTRAINTS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | ADAMS, CHARLES D | 2152 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Aug 11, 2022 |
| 17809683 | CPU Core Off-parking | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | NGUYEN, TUAN MINH | 2198 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | AI Ready | Jun 29, 2022 |
| 17809046 | Systems and Methods for Video Genre Classification | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | REINIER, BARBARA DIANE | 2682 | §103 | Final Rejection | 79d | Pending | Jun 27, 2022 |
| 17804424 | EASING CROSS-GEO COLLABORATION WITH INTELLIGENT SCHEDULING | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | ANDERSON, FOLASHADE | 3623 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 14d | AI Ready | May 27, 2022 |
| 17664918 | NOTIFYING CONTENT EXPERT OF CONTENT CREATED BY USER OUTSIDE COLLABORATION CIRCLE OF CONTENT EXPERT | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | WASAFF, JOHN S. | 3629 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | May 25, 2022 |
| 17749772 | DATA STRUCTURE CORRECTION USING NEURAL NETWORK MODEL | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | BAKER, IRENE H | 2152 | §103 | Final Rejection | 52d overdue | Pending | May 20, 2022 |
| 17746457 | CORRELATION MODEL INTERPRETER USING TEACHER-STUDENT MODELS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | BRACERO, ANDREW ANGEL | 2126 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | May 17, 2022 |
| 17722022 | SUSTAINABILITY-AWARE DEVICE CONFIGURATION VISIBILITY AND MANAGEMENT | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | RASHID, WISSAM | 2195 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
| 17674173 | EXPOSING CONTROL TO ENABLE INTERACTIVE SCHEDULERS FOR CLOUD CLUSTER ORCHESTRATION SYSTEMS | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | SEYE, ABDOU K | 2198 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d | Pending | Feb 17, 2022 |
| 17137171 | INTERIM CONNECTIONS FOR PROVIDING SECURE COMMUNICATION OF CONTENT BETWEEN DEVICES | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | NEHCHIRI, KOOROSH | 2174 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 97d overdue | AI Ready | Dec 29, 2020 |
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