Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
BGC Partners Inc. has 7 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are handled by 7 distinct examiners, meaning no two pending matters share the same examiner. The portfolio is distributed across 4 distinct art units. Olabode Akintola is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that while the technical focus is limited to 4 distinct art units, the company must still manage 7 different individual examination styles to resolve its 7 pending office actions.
The presence of 4 distinct art units indicates that the company's innovations are categorized into several different technical groups. Because the 7 distinct examiners are all different individuals, the company cannot rely on building a rapport with a small group of personnel to streamline its prosecution. Olabode Akintola handles a single matter, which is the same workload as every other examiner in this portfolio. Practitioners must be prepared for many different sets of examiner expectations and procedural habits. The 7 pending office actions require a broad management strategy to address the various requirements of the assigned art units and examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 4 (57%) |
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKINTOLA, OLABODE | 1 | 50.6% | +8.9% |
| ANDERSON, SCOTT C | 1 | 58.6% | +31.8% |
| KWONG, CHO YIU | 1 | 32.1% | +3.9% |
| GREGG, MARY M | 1 | 14.0% | +14.2% |
| PRESTON, JOHN O | 1 | 28.4% | +7.7% |
| POLLOCK, GREGORY A | 1 | 11.0% | +12.5% |
| NGUYEN, TIEN C | 1 | 68.1% | +19.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18407607 | AUTOMATIC FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT TRANSACTION SYSTEM | POLLOCK, GREGORY A | 14d |
| 19027162 | INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION FACILITATING SELLSIDE MARKETMAKING | KWONG, CHO YIU | 15d |
| 18882886 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING COMPOSITE TRADING ORDERS | GREGG, MARY M | 19d |
| 19279557 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING NON-FULLY TRANSPARENT MARKETS | AKINTOLA, OLABODE | — |
| 19209916 | INTERPROGRAM COMMUNICATION USING MESSAGES RELATED TO EVENTS AND ACTIONS ON AN EXCHANGE | ANDERSON, SCOTT C | — |
| 18825058 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ERROR DETECTION AND RECOVERY IN AN ELECTRONIC TRADING SYSTEM | PRESTON, JOHN O | — |
| 18230233 | TRADING ORDERS WITH DECAYING RESERVES | NGUYEN, TIEN C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18407607 | AUTOMATIC FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT TRANSACTION SYSTEM | POLLOCK, GREGORY A | 14d |
| 18882886 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING COMPOSITE TRADING ORDERS | GREGG, MARY M | 19d |
| 19209916 | INTERPROGRAM COMMUNICATION USING MESSAGES RELATED TO EVENTS AND ACTIONS ON AN EXCHANGE | ANDERSON, SCOTT C | — |
| 18230233 | TRADING ORDERS WITH DECAYING RESERVES | NGUYEN, TIEN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3691 | 2 |
| 3694 | 2 |
| 3693 | 2 |
| 3695 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19279557 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING NON-FULLY TRANSPARENT MARKETS | AKINTOLA, OLABODE | 3691 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2025 |
| 19209916 | INTERPROGRAM COMMUNICATION USING MESSAGES RELATED TO EVENTS AND ACTIONS ON AN EXCHANGE | ANDERSON, SCOTT C | 3694 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 19027162 | INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION FACILITATING SELLSIDE MARKETMAKING | KWONG, CHO YIU | 3693 | §101 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18882886 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING COMPOSITE TRADING ORDERS | GREGG, MARY M | 3695 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18825058 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ERROR DETECTION AND RECOVERY IN AN ELECTRONIC TRADING SYSTEM | PRESTON, JOHN O | 3693 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18407607 | AUTOMATIC FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT TRANSACTION SYSTEM | POLLOCK, GREGORY A | 3691 | §101 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18230233 | TRADING ORDERS WITH DECAYING RESERVES | NGUYEN, TIEN C | 3694 | §101§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBGC Partners Inc. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 7 examiners.
Olabode Akintola has the most, with 1 of BGC Partners Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
