Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
14 pending office actions • 8 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Black Hills IP Holdings LLC has 14 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 14 examiners across 8 art units, showing complete examiner dispersion and repeated art-unit assignments.
ALLEN, BRITTANY N is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should manage the portfolio through matter-level review and art-unit tracking, since no examiner carries multiple matters in the available data.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 (29%) |
| §101 + other | 9 (64%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (7%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLEN, BRITTANY N | 1 | 42.2% | +37.8% |
| CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T | 1 | 74.6% | +32.3% |
| TALLMAN, BRIAN A | 1 | 24.1% | +38.8% |
| GILKEY, CARRIE STRODER | 1 | 16.2% | +33.4% |
| HATCH, ANGELA MAIDA | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| RIVERA GONZALEZ, IVONNEMARY | 1 | 4.4% | +7.4% |
| WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 1 | 18.7% | +18.6% |
| SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | 1 | 26.4% | +37.5% |
| ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 1 | 9.4% | +15.7% |
| BOND, REED MADISON | 1 | 14.8% | +37.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18205982 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A BACK-UP DOCKET | BOND, REED MADISON | 89d overdue |
| 17722178 | PRE-CODED AUTOMATIC DOCKETING | LAKHANI, ANDREW C | 50d overdue |
| 18122875 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PORTFOLIO BUDGETING TOOL | NEWLON, WILLIAM D | 16d overdue |
| 18651366 | ANALYTICS GENERATION FOR PATENT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT | HATCH, ANGELA MAIDA | 3d overdue |
| 18892016 | DATA INTERCHANGE SYSTEM | GILKEY, CARRIE STRODER | 7d |
| 18369711 | PATENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS HAVING EXPERT DOCKETING | RIVERA GONZALEZ, IVONNEMARY | 63d |
| 18351425 | STRUCTURED ANALYSIS RELATING TO DEADLINE DRIVEN PROJECT MANAGEMENT | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 71d |
| 19262064 | PATENT MAPPING | ALLEN, BRITTANY N | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18205982 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A BACK-UP DOCKET | BOND, REED MADISON | 89d overdue |
| 18892016 | DATA INTERCHANGE SYSTEM | GILKEY, CARRIE STRODER | 7d |
| 18351425 | STRUCTURED ANALYSIS RELATING TO DEADLINE DRIVEN PROJECT MANAGEMENT | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 71d |
| 19262064 | PATENT MAPPING | ALLEN, BRITTANY N | — |
| 19221503 | AUTOMATED PATENT CLAIM SCOPE CONCEPT MAPPING | CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T | — |
| 19173546 | GENERATIVE ARTIFICAL INTELLGIENCE PATENT CLAIM MAPPING | TALLMAN, BRIAN A | — |
| 18351428 | SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC REMINDERS FOR ITEMS WITH LEGAL DEADLINES | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | — |
| 18351416 | DYNAMIC DATA RESOURCE DRIVEN USER INTERFACE TOOL | SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3626 | 4 |
| 3629 | 3 |
| 3624 | 2 |
| 2169 | 1 |
| 2154 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 3696 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19262064 | PATENT MAPPING | ALLEN, BRITTANY N | 2169 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19221503 | AUTOMATED PATENT CLAIM SCOPE CONCEPT MAPPING | CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T | 2154 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19173546 | GENERATIVE ARTIFICAL INTELLGIENCE PATENT CLAIM MAPPING | TALLMAN, BRIAN A | 3628 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 |
| 18892016 | DATA INTERCHANGE SYSTEM | GILKEY, CARRIE STRODER | 3626 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18651366 | ANALYTICS GENERATION FOR PATENT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT | HATCH, ANGELA MAIDA | 3626 | §101 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18369711 | PATENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS HAVING EXPERT DOCKETING | RIVERA GONZALEZ, IVONNEMARY | 3626 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18351428 | SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC REMINDERS FOR ITEMS WITH LEGAL DEADLINES | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 3629 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18351416 | DYNAMIC DATA RESOURCE DRIVEN USER INTERFACE TOOL | SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | 3625 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18351425 | STRUCTURED ANALYSIS RELATING TO DEADLINE DRIVEN PROJECT MANAGEMENT | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 3629 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18205982 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A BACK-UP DOCKET | BOND, REED MADISON | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
| 18122875 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PORTFOLIO BUDGETING TOOL | NEWLON, WILLIAM D | 3696 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Mar 17, 2023 |
| 17946759 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND USER INTERFACES IN A PATENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | PRASAD, NANCY N | 3624 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2022 |
| 17833200 | AUTOMATED DOCKETING CHECKER | CHEN, WENREN | 3626 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2022 |
| 17722178 | PRE-CODED AUTOMATIC DOCKETING | LAKHANI, ANDREW C | 3629 | §101 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialBlack Hills IP Holdings LLC has 14 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 14 examiners.
Brittany N Allen has the most, with 1 of Black Hills IP Holdings LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
