Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ally Financial Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 4 examiners and 4 art units, showing that the current docket is distributed across distinct examination assignments.
GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. No examiner has more than the stated single action, so prosecution planning should remain specific to each matter’s examiner and art-unit setting.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH | 1 | 14.9% | +17.3% |
| WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | 1 | 80.0% | +28.5% |
| SLACHTA, DOUGLAS M | 1 | 82.8% | +18.1% |
| OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N | 1 | 81.9% | +10.2% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19001902 | TECHNIQUES FOR ESTABLISHING TRUSTED ENVIRONMENTS WITHIN A METAVERSE | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | — |
| 18626789 | TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATING TASKS USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS AND SOFTWARE AGENTS | OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19084503 | DISTRIBUTED TRACING TECHNIQUES FOR ACQUIRING BUSINESS INSIGHTS | GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH | — |
| 18794902 | PIPELINE RELEASE VALIDATION | SLACHTA, DOUGLAS M | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19084503 | DISTRIBUTED TRACING TECHNIQUES FOR ACQUIRING BUSINESS INSIGHTS | GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH | — |
| 19001902 | TECHNIQUES FOR ESTABLISHING TRUSTED ENVIRONMENTS WITHIN A METAVERSE | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | — |
| 18794902 | PIPELINE RELEASE VALIDATION | SLACHTA, DOUGLAS M | — |
| 18626789 | TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATING TASKS USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS AND SOFTWARE AGENTS | OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 1 |
| 2443 | 1 |
| 2193 | 1 |
| 2658 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19084503 | DISTRIBUTED TRACING TECHNIQUES FOR ACQUIRING BUSINESS INSIGHTS | GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH | 3624 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19001902 | TECHNIQUES FOR ESTABLISHING TRUSTED ENVIRONMENTS WITHIN A METAVERSE | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | 2443 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18794902 | PIPELINE RELEASE VALIDATION | SLACHTA, DOUGLAS M | 2193 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18626789 | TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATING TASKS USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS AND SOFTWARE AGENTS | OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N | 2658 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAlly Financial Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Kristin Elizabeth Gavin has the most, with 1 of Ally Financial Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
