Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Ancestry.com Operations Inc.

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

5
Hard (71%)
2
Medium (29%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other5 (71%)
§103 only1 (14%)
§102 only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
6
Information Tech
86% of docket
1
Communications
14% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, CAM LINH T 1 83.8% +13.4%
KETEMA, BENYAM 1 65.6% +10.3%
GOFMAN, ALEX N 1 68.4% +24.6%
SHARPLESS, SAMUEL 1 80.3% +28.3%
MINA, FATIMA P 1 64.4% +26.0%
ELIAS, EARL L 1 58.1% +21.4%
WONG, LUT 1 77.2% +14.4%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19064341 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH ASSISTANT SHARPLESS, SAMUEL

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19065698 DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE GUIDED SELECTION OF NODES FOR ADDITION TO DATA TREES GOFMAN, ALEX N 23d overdue
19185682 UNIFIED SEARCH SYSTEMS AND METHODS NGUYEN, CAM LINH T
18660046 DETERMINING AND PROVIDING RECOMMENDED GENEALOGICAL CONTENT ITEMS USING A SELECTION-PREDICTION NEURAL NETWORK MINA, FATIMA P
18647603 DETERMINING GENEALOGICAL RECORDS FOR RECORD QUERIES UTILIZING A LIFESPAN FILTER ALGORITHM ELIAS, EARL L
18068703 MACHINE LEARNING FOR CLASSIFICATION OF USERS WONG, LUT

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19065698 DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE GUIDED SELECTION OF NODES FOR ADDITION TO DATA TREES GOFMAN, ALEX N 23d overdue
19185682 UNIFIED SEARCH SYSTEMS AND METHODS NGUYEN, CAM LINH T
19080290 ARTIFICIAL REALITY FAMILY HISTORY EXPERIENCE KETEMA, BENYAM
19064341 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH ASSISTANT SHARPLESS, SAMUEL
18660046 DETERMINING AND PROVIDING RECOMMENDED GENEALOGICAL CONTENT ITEMS USING A SELECTION-PREDICTION NEURAL NETWORK MINA, FATIMA P
18647603 DETERMINING GENEALOGICAL RECORDS FOR RECORD QUERIES UTILIZING A LIFESPAN FILTER ALGORITHM ELIAS, EARL L
18068703 MACHINE LEARNING FOR CLASSIFICATION OF USERS WONG, LUT

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2161 1
2626 1
2163 1
2165 1
2159 1
2169 1
2127 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19185682 UNIFIED SEARCH SYSTEMS AND METHODS NGUYEN, CAM LINH T 2161 §101§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Apr 22, 2025
19080290 ARTIFICIAL REALITY FAMILY HISTORY EXPERIENCE KETEMA, BENYAM 2626 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 14, 2025
19065698 DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE GUIDED SELECTION OF NODES FOR ADDITION TO DATA TREES GOFMAN, ALEX N 2163 §101§103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Feb 27, 2025
19064341 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH ASSISTANT SHARPLESS, SAMUEL 2165 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 26, 2025
18660046 DETERMINING AND PROVIDING RECOMMENDED GENEALOGICAL CONTENT ITEMS USING A SELECTION-PREDICTION NEURAL NETWORK MINA, FATIMA P 2159 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending May 09, 2024
18647603 DETERMINING GENEALOGICAL RECORDS FOR RECORD QUERIES UTILIZING A LIFESPAN FILTER ALGORITHM ELIAS, EARL L 2169 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 26, 2024
18068703 MACHINE LEARNING FOR CLASSIFICATION OF USERS WONG, LUT 2127 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 20, 2022

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