Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Barclays Execution Services Limited currently has 4 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These 4 actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, resulting in a unique examiner for every pending matter. The portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units. This indicates a balanced workload where the 4 distinct examiners each handle an equal portion of the 4 total pending actions across the 2 art units.
WANG, RONGFA PHILIP is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because the 4 pending office actions are split between only 2 distinct art units, multiple examiners are likely working within the same technical classifications. This overlap within the art units, despite the use of 4 distinct examiners, may lead to different prosecution outcomes for similar software technologies. Practitioners should analyze the 2 distinct art units to identify any trends that might affect the 4 pending matters currently under review. The involvement of 4 distinct examiners requires a versatile approach to examiner interviews.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, RONGFA PHILIP | 1 | 84.6% | +6.1% |
| GUYTON, PHILIP A | 1 | 83.9% | +8.6% |
| CHEN, ZHI | 1 | 60.4% | +39.7% |
| BRIDGES, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 46.1% | +9.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18767073 | EVENT HANDLING FOR DIGITALISED PROCESSES | GUYTON, PHILIP A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18808672 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MAINFRAME DOWNTIME REDUCTION | WANG, RONGFA PHILIP | — |
| 18665834 | Synthetic Grouping of Processing Tasks | CHEN, ZHI | — |
| 18035404 | SECURE PROCESSING OF PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS | BRIDGES, CHRISTOPHER | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2113 | 1 |
| 3693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18808672 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MAINFRAME DOWNTIME REDUCTION | WANG, RONGFA PHILIP | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18767073 | EVENT HANDLING FOR DIGITALISED PROCESSES | GUYTON, PHILIP A | 2113 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18665834 | Synthetic Grouping of Processing Tasks | CHEN, ZHI | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18035404 | SECURE PROCESSING OF PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS | BRIDGES, CHRISTOPHER | 3693 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 04, 2023 |
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