Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
American Express Services Europe Limited has 5 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The portfolio spans 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating limited repetition across both assignment categories.
PUTTAIAH, ASHA is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Those matters warrant coordinated examiner review, while the broader docket should be managed with attention to its separate art-unit contexts.
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 + other | 4 (80%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUTTAIAH, ASHA | 2 | 21.0% | +20.7% |
| SUH, ANDREW | 1 | 80.1% | +38.2% |
| KANAAN, TONY P | 1 | 28.8% | +27.6% |
| JACOB, WILLIAM J | 1 | 49.3% | +34.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19004921 | NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION (NFC)-BASED SESSION SHARING ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES | SUH, ANDREW | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19003402 | TRANSACTION CARDS WITH VERIFIABLE CREDENTIALS | PUTTAIAH, ASHA | — |
| 19003106 | INTERACTION COUNTERS FOR MULTI-DEVICE TRANSACTIONS | KANAAN, TONY P | — |
| 18921506 | CONFIGURATION OF A TEMPORARY INSTRUMENT | PUTTAIAH, ASHA | — |
| 18762236 | TOKENIZATION THROUGH OFFLINE CONTACTLESS TAP | JACOB, WILLIAM J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19004921 | NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION (NFC)-BASED SESSION SHARING ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES | SUH, ANDREW | — |
| 19003402 | TRANSACTION CARDS WITH VERIFIABLE CREDENTIALS | PUTTAIAH, ASHA | — |
| 19003106 | INTERACTION COUNTERS FOR MULTI-DEVICE TRANSACTIONS | KANAAN, TONY P | — |
| 18921506 | CONFIGURATION OF A TEMPORARY INSTRUMENT | PUTTAIAH, ASHA | — |
| 18762236 | TOKENIZATION THROUGH OFFLINE CONTACTLESS TAP | JACOB, WILLIAM J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3691 | 2 |
| 3696 | 2 |
| 2493 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19004921 | NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION (NFC)-BASED SESSION SHARING ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES | SUH, ANDREW | 2493 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 19003402 | TRANSACTION CARDS WITH VERIFIABLE CREDENTIALS | PUTTAIAH, ASHA | 3691 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 19003106 | INTERACTION COUNTERS FOR MULTI-DEVICE TRANSACTIONS | KANAAN, TONY P | 3696 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18921506 | CONFIGURATION OF A TEMPORARY INSTRUMENT | PUTTAIAH, ASHA | 3691 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18762236 | TOKENIZATION THROUGH OFFLINE CONTACTLESS TAP | JACOB, WILLIAM J | 3696 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAmerican Express Services Europe Limited has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Asha Puttaiah has the most, with 2 of American Express Services Europe Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
