Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ancestry.com Operations Inc. has 7 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 7 examiners across 6 art units, showing complete examiner dispersion with limited technical-unit overlap.
DEPALMA, CAROLINE ELIZABETH is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. The docket is best handled through matter-specific response planning and centralized deadline oversight.
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 (14%) |
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEPALMA, CAROLINE ELIZABETH | 1 | 90.2% | +6.4% |
| BOWEN, RICHARD L | 1 | 80.7% | +26.9% |
| CHAWAN, VIJAY B | 1 | 87.9% | +11.7% |
| KETEMA, BENYAM | 1 | 66.0% | +10.1% |
| MARIAM, DANIEL G | 1 | 90.6% | +10.3% |
| OSINSKI, MICHAEL S | 1 | 75.6% | +23.0% |
| SUN, ANDREW NMN | 1 | 50.0% | +100.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18968403 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND SEGMENTING OBJECTS FROM IMAGES | MARIAM, DANIEL G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19325058 | IMAGE ENHANCEMENT IN A GENEALOGY SYSTEM | DEPALMA, CAROLINE ELIZABETH | — |
| 19287330 | RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED THOUGHT FOR AGENTIC MODELS | BOWEN, RICHARD L | — |
| 19089960 | GENERATING COREFERENCE MATCHES FOR AN ENTITY UTILIZING A COMBINED LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL | CHAWAN, VIJAY B | — |
| 18952858 | HANDWRITING RECOGNITION PIPELINES FOR GENEALOGICAL RECORDS | OSINSKI, MICHAEL S | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19287330 | RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED THOUGHT FOR AGENTIC MODELS | BOWEN, RICHARD L | — |
| 19089960 | GENERATING COREFERENCE MATCHES FOR AN ENTITY UTILIZING A COMBINED LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL | CHAWAN, VIJAY B | — |
| 19080290 | ARTIFICIAL REALITY FAMILY HISTORY EXPERIENCE | KETEMA, BENYAM | — |
| 18968403 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND SEGMENTING OBJECTS FROM IMAGES | MARIAM, DANIEL G | — |
| 18952858 | HANDWRITING RECOGNITION PIPELINES FOR GENEALOGICAL RECORDS | OSINSKI, MICHAEL S | — |
| 18939990 | SUBCLUSTERING CONTENT ITEMS FOR ALLOCATING COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES ON A PER-SUBCLUSTER BASIS | SUN, ANDREW NMN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2675 | 2 |
| 2165 | 1 |
| 2658 | 1 |
| 2626 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| 2195 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19325058 | IMAGE ENHANCEMENT IN A GENEALOGY SYSTEM | DEPALMA, CAROLINE ELIZABETH | 2675 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19287330 | RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED THOUGHT FOR AGENTIC MODELS | BOWEN, RICHARD L | 2165 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2025 |
| 19089960 | GENERATING COREFERENCE MATCHES FOR AN ENTITY UTILIZING A COMBINED LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL | CHAWAN, VIJAY B | 2658 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19080290 | ARTIFICIAL REALITY FAMILY HISTORY EXPERIENCE | KETEMA, BENYAM | 2626 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 18968403 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND SEGMENTING OBJECTS FROM IMAGES | MARIAM, DANIEL G | 2675 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18952858 | HANDWRITING RECOGNITION PIPELINES FOR GENEALOGICAL RECORDS | OSINSKI, MICHAEL S | 2674 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18939990 | SUBCLUSTERING CONTENT ITEMS FOR ALLOCATING COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES ON A PER-SUBCLUSTER BASIS | SUN, ANDREW NMN | 2195 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAncestry.com Operations Inc. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 7 examiners.
Caroline Elizabeth Depalma has the most, with 1 of Ancestry.com Operations Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
