Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
14 pending office actions • 9 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Blackhawk Network Inc. has 11 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 9 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units, indicating a distributed docket with some recurring examination relationships.
BARGEON, BRITTANY E is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. Those matters warrant coordinated review for common claim language, disclosure support, and prior-art positions. The other examiner assignments should be managed separately, because the art-unit spread indicates that prosecution issues may arise in different technical contexts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 3 (21%) |
| §101 + other | 9 (64%) |
| §103 only | 1 (7%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARGEON, BRITTANY E | 3 | 44.9% | +33.8% |
| LUDWIG, PETER L | 2 | 35.2% | +22.5% |
| HILMANTEL, ADAM J | 1 | 40.4% | +28.8% |
| MOSSER, ROBERT E | 1 | 46.8% | +10.0% |
| SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL | 1 | 50.6% | +45.8% |
| JACOB, WILLIAM J | 1 | 49.3% | +34.4% |
| WONG, ERIC TAK WAI | 1 | 50.6% | +13.1% |
| PHAN, NICHOLAS K | 1 | 52.1% | +19.6% |
| LIU, CHIA-YI | 1 | 27.2% | +20.5% |
| POLLOCK, GREGORY A | 1 | 11.0% | +12.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15796174 | System and method for targeted marketing and consumer resource management | LIU, CHIA-YI | 4d overdue |
| 17994512 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING INTELLIGENT CODES IN CONJUNCTION WITH STORED-VALUE CARDS | BARGEON, BRITTANY E | 29d |
| 14213693 | System and Method for Selecting, Distributing, Redeeming, and Reconciling Digital Offers | POLLOCK, GREGORY A | 40d |
| 13799624 | System and Method for Targeted Marketing and Consumer Resource Management | LUDWIG, PETER L | 56d |
| 19055829 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY DETECTING AND PREVENTING CONSUMER FRAUD | HILMANTEL, ADAM J | — |
| 18209276 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING GEOLOCATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH STORED-VALUE CARDS | BARGEON, BRITTANY E | — |
| 17220683 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING INTELLIGENT CODES IN CONJUNCTION WITH STORED-VALUE CARDS | BARGEON, BRITTANY E | — |
| 17143196 | System and Method for Targeted Marketing and Consumer Resource Management | LUDWIG, PETER L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15796174 | System and method for targeted marketing and consumer resource management | LIU, CHIA-YI | 4d overdue |
| 18107111 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING INTELLIGENT CODES IN CONJUNCTION WITH NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS | SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL | 20d |
| 17994512 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING INTELLIGENT CODES IN CONJUNCTION WITH STORED-VALUE CARDS | BARGEON, BRITTANY E | 29d |
| 14213693 | System and Method for Selecting, Distributing, Redeeming, and Reconciling Digital Offers | POLLOCK, GREGORY A | 40d |
| 13799624 | System and Method for Targeted Marketing and Consumer Resource Management | LUDWIG, PETER L | 56d |
| 19055829 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY DETECTING AND PREVENTING CONSUMER FRAUD | HILMANTEL, ADAM J | — |
| 18958375 | METHOD OF INTEGRATING A RETAIL POINT OF SALE AND A THIRD-PARTY INSTANT WIN LOTTERY TICKET DISPENSER | MOSSER, ROBERT E | — |
| 18209276 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING GEOLOCATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH STORED-VALUE CARDS | BARGEON, BRITTANY E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3691 | 3 |
| 3688 | 3 |
| 3627 | 2 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 3698 | 1 |
| 3696 | 1 |
| 3693 | 1 |
| 3699 | 1 |
| 3692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19055829 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY DETECTING AND PREVENTING CONSUMER FRAUD | HILMANTEL, ADAM J | 3691 | §101Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 18958375 | METHOD OF INTEGRATING A RETAIL POINT OF SALE AND A THIRD-PARTY INSTANT WIN LOTTERY TICKET DISPENSER | MOSSER, ROBERT E | 3715 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18209276 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING GEOLOCATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH STORED-VALUE CARDS | BARGEON, BRITTANY E | 3688 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 18107111 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING INTELLIGENT CODES IN CONJUNCTION WITH NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS | SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL | 3698 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Feb 08, 2023 |
| 17994512 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING INTELLIGENT CODES IN CONJUNCTION WITH STORED-VALUE CARDS | BARGEON, BRITTANY E | 3688 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
| 17220683 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING INTELLIGENT CODES IN CONJUNCTION WITH STORED-VALUE CARDS | BARGEON, BRITTANY E | 3688 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2021 |
| 17143196 | System and Method for Targeted Marketing and Consumer Resource Management | LUDWIG, PETER L | 3627 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2021 |
| 16930921 | Prepaid Card with Savings Feature | JACOB, WILLIAM J | 3696 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2020 |
| 15893311 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING INSTANT REBATES TO CUSTOMERS | WONG, ERIC TAK WAI | 3693 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2018 |
| 15796166 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSUMER MODIFIABLE PAYMENT CARD TRANSACTIONS | PHAN, NICHOLAS K | 3699 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2017 |
| 15796174 | System and method for targeted marketing and consumer resource management | LIU, CHIA-YI | 3692 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2017 |
| 14213693 | System and Method for Selecting, Distributing, Redeeming, and Reconciling Digital Offers | POLLOCK, GREGORY A | 3691 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Mar 14, 2014 |
| 13799624 | System and Method for Targeted Marketing and Consumer Resource Management | LUDWIG, PETER L | 3627 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Mar 13, 2013 |
| 13619226 | System, Method, and Apparatus for Creating and Distributing a Transaction Credit | KANERVO, VIRPI H | 3691 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2012 |
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Start Free TrialBlackhawk Network Inc. has 14 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 11 examiners.
Brittany E Bargeon has the most, with 3 of Blackhawk Network Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
