Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Capital One Financial Corporation

6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
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 (83%)
1
Medium (17%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (17%)
§101 + other2 (33%)
§103 only1 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
17% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
3
Business / Other
50% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G 1 75.4% +30.2%
JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY 1 25.0% +27.5%
RYLANDER, BART I 1 67.5% +14.1%
KHAN, IFTEKHAR A 1 77.7% +25.8%
CHISM, STEVEN R 1 31.2% +43.0%
PUTTAIAH, ASHA 1 21.4% +22.0%

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
17942872 DECENTRALIZED IDENTITY VERIFICATION FOR PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS PUTTAIAH, ASHA 11d overdue
18499974 COMPUTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RAPIDLY QUANTIFYING FEATURE INFLUENCE ON THE OUTPUT OF A DATA SCIENCE MODEL JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY
18489635 COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANIFOLD LEARNING RYLANDER, BART I
18111825 Computing System and Method for Applying Monte Carlo Estimation to Determine the Contribution of Individual Input Variables Within Dependent Variable Groups on the Output of a Data Science Model KHAN, IFTEKHAR A
17942859 FRAUD MITIGATION USING PRE-AUTHORIZATION AUTHENTICATION AND VERIFICATION CHISM, STEVEN R

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17942872 DECENTRALIZED IDENTITY VERIFICATION FOR PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS PUTTAIAH, ASHA 11d overdue
18907216 LINE LOCATION AND CHARACTER IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUES FOR OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G
18499974 COMPUTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RAPIDLY QUANTIFYING FEATURE INFLUENCE ON THE OUTPUT OF A DATA SCIENCE MODEL JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY
18489635 COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANIFOLD LEARNING RYLANDER, BART I
18111825 Computing System and Method for Applying Monte Carlo Estimation to Determine the Contribution of Individual Input Variables Within Dependent Variable Groups on the Output of a Data Science Model KHAN, IFTEKHAR A
17942859 FRAUD MITIGATION USING PRE-AUTHORIZATION AUTHENTICATION AND VERIFICATION CHISM, STEVEN R

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
4100 2
2674 1
3692 1
3691 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18907216 LINE LOCATION AND CHARACTER IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUES FOR OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G 2674 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 04, 2024
18499974 COMPUTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RAPIDLY QUANTIFYING FEATURE INFLUENCE ON THE OUTPUT OF A DATA SCIENCE MODEL JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 01, 2023
18489635 COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANIFOLD LEARNING RYLANDER, BART I 4100 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 18, 2023
18111825 Computing System and Method for Applying Monte Carlo Estimation to Determine the Contribution of Individual Input Variables Within Dependent Variable Groups on the Output of a Data Science Model KHAN, IFTEKHAR A 4100 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 20, 2023
17942859 FRAUD MITIGATION USING PRE-AUTHORIZATION AUTHENTICATION AND VERIFICATION CHISM, STEVEN R 3692 §101 Final Rejection Pending Sep 12, 2022
17942872 DECENTRALIZED IDENTITY VERIFICATION FOR PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS PUTTAIAH, ASHA 3691 §101§103 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Sep 12, 2022

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