Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

ADP Inc.

22 pending office actions • 11 art units • 21 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 69 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

22
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
1
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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
1
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 (1)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (1)

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.

16
Hard (73%)
6
Medium (27%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (14%)
§101 + other10 (45%)
§103 only4 (18%)
§102 only2 (9%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
18% of docket
1
Communications
5% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
10
Mechanical / Eng
45% of docket
7
Business / Other
32% 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.

220 h
Manual time on pending OAs
44 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
77 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
OUELLETTE, JONATHAN P 2 66.4% +29.6%
BIBBEE, JARED M 1 80.3% +13.7%
WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J 1 38.9% +41.6%
EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A 1 41.4% +39.3%
AGUIAR, JOHNNY B 1 80.3% +19.5%
ELIAS, EARL L 1 57.5% +22.5%
SERRAO, RANODHI N 1 87.3% +15.6%
CHAMPAGNE, LUNA 1 45.8% +34.5%
MUTSCHLER, JOSEPH M 1 59.9% +47.7%
CORUM JR, WILLIAM A 1 74.8% +29.7%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19245897 PREDICTION OF CACHEABLE QUERIES BIBBEE, JARED M 34d
19034245 MULTI-LAYER CONFIGURATION FOR COMPUTATION ENGINE INTEGRATION IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS SERRAO, RANODHI N

Hard Cases (16)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17690527 PREDICTING AND INDEXING INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT REQUIREMENTS KNIGHT, LETORIA G 23d overdue
18506787 DIGITAL CAREER COACH RUSS, COREY V 41d
18828948 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GRAPH MODEL COMPUTING OUELLETTE, JONATHAN P 42d
18479769 PREDICTIVE MODELING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY QUANTIFYING EMPLOYEE GROWTH OPPORTUNITY BOSWELL, BETH V 83d
19173377 COMPUTING ACTION SEARCH USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J
19172384 SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES OF POSITION FULFILLMENT EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A
19088655 MESSAGE ROUTING BASED ON UNAVAILABILITY AGUIAR, JOHNNY B
19038226 DATA QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ELIAS, EARL L

Interview Candidates (11)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19245897 PREDICTION OF CACHEABLE QUERIES BIBBEE, JARED M 34d
18828948 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GRAPH MODEL COMPUTING OUELLETTE, JONATHAN P 42d
19173377 COMPUTING ACTION SEARCH USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J
19172384 SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES OF POSITION FULFILLMENT EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A
19088655 MESSAGE ROUTING BASED ON UNAVAILABILITY AGUIAR, JOHNNY B
19038226 DATA QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ELIAS, EARL L
19034245 MULTI-LAYER CONFIGURATION FOR COMPUTATION ENGINE INTEGRATION IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS SERRAO, RANODHI N
19029905 SINGLE PAYMENT VALIDATION GATEWAY CHAMPAGNE, LUNA

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3629 3
3627 2
3625 2
2161 1
3622 1
2433 1
2693 1
3621 1
2154 1
2178 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19245897 PREDICTION OF CACHEABLE QUERIES BIBBEE, JARED M 2161 §102 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jun 23, 2025
19173377 COMPUTING ACTION SEARCH USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J 3622 §101§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Apr 08, 2025
19172384 SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES OF POSITION FULFILLMENT EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 07, 2025
19088655 MESSAGE ROUTING BASED ON UNAVAILABILITY AGUIAR, JOHNNY B §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Mar 24, 2025
19038226 DATA QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ELIAS, EARL L §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 27, 2025
19034245 MULTI-LAYER CONFIGURATION FOR COMPUTATION ENGINE INTEGRATION IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS SERRAO, RANODHI N §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 22, 2025
19029905 SINGLE PAYMENT VALIDATION GATEWAY CHAMPAGNE, LUNA §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 17, 2025
19000045 ONLINE INFORMATION VALIDATION OUELLETTE, JONATHAN P 3629 §101Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 23, 2024
18981052 AUTOMATIC REPEATING NETWORK OPERATION EXECUTION USING PARTIAL SWITCHES MUTSCHLER, JOSEPH M 3627 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 13, 2024
18951108 SYSTEM OF RECORD AGNOSTIC DATA ENTITLEMENT API CORUM JR, WILLIAM A 2433 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 18, 2024
18927299 DATA STRUCTURE MODIFICATION USING A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT BASED ON LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS AND ONTOLOGY DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 25, 2024
18900299 MACHINE LEARNING BASED SERVICE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT DIGITAL ASSISTANT MATAR, AHMAD 2693 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 27, 2024
18828948 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GRAPH MODEL COMPUTING OUELLETTE, JONATHAN P 3629 §101§103Other Final Rejection 42d Pending Sep 09, 2024
18809117 CALCULATING TAX CREDITS VALUES FROM HUMAN CAPITAL DATA GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE 3625 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 19, 2024
18761414 RESOURCE ALLOCATION BASED ON PRODUCT FEEDBACK REFAI, SAM M 3621 §101 Final Rejection Pending Jul 02, 2024
18752343 Context-Independent Conversational Flow WOO, ISAAC M 2154 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 24, 2024
18671661 COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE FOR USER CHARACTERISTIC BASED APPLICATION CONTENT ADJUSTMENT RODRIGUEZ, DANIEL 2178 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 22, 2024
18433331 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WORKFORCE ELASTICITY INDEXING LEE, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER §101§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Feb 05, 2024
18506787 DIGITAL CAREER COACH RUSS, COREY V 3629 §101§103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Nov 10, 2023
18479769 PREDICTIVE MODELING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY QUANTIFYING EMPLOYEE GROWTH OPPORTUNITY BOSWELL, BETH V 3625 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Oct 02, 2023
18138611 MICRO-LOAN SYSTEM YU, ARIEL J 3627 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 24, 2023
17690527 PREDICTING AND INDEXING INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT REQUIREMENTS KNIGHT, LETORIA G 3623 §101§112 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Mar 09, 2022

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