Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cdk Global LLC has 5 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, creating a perfectly decentralized prosecution profile. Every pending case is being reviewed by a different person in a different specialized unit. The 5 pending office actions represent five independent technical and procedural paths within the patent office.
JACOB, AJITH is listed as the busiest examiner, though this individual is only responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This is consistent with the overall distribution where each of the 5 pending office actions is handled by a unique examiner. The 5 distinct art units indicate that the company's software innovations are categorized into five different technical areas. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner or art unit has a dominant influence over the portfolio.
Practitioners must prepare for five entirely separate examination processes. Since there is no overlap between the 5 distinct examiners or the 5 distinct art units, there is no opportunity to apply lessons learned from one pending case to another. Each of the 5 pending office actions must be approached as a unique interaction. Strategy should be tailored to the individual tendencies of JACOB, AJITH and the other four distinct examiners involved across these five specialized units.
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.
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 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DICKERSON, CHAD S | 1 | 62.8% | +23.1% |
| RIEGLER, PATRICK F | 1 | 55.3% | +30.9% |
| SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | 1 | 26.4% | +37.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17930875 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING A CAPITAL EXPENDITURE AND A NON-CAPITAL EXPENDITURE | SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | 62d |
| 18792468 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING PRINTING USAGE STATISTICS | DICKERSON, CHAD S | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17930875 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING A CAPITAL EXPENDITURE AND A NON-CAPITAL EXPENDITURE | SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | 62d |
| 18792468 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING PRINTING USAGE STATISTICS | DICKERSON, CHAD S | — |
| 18670319 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORM GENERATION USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED DATA CONFIGURATION MIGRATION | RIEGLER, PATRICK F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2683 | 1 |
| 2171 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18792468 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING PRINTING USAGE STATISTICS | DICKERSON, CHAD S | 2683 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18670319 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORM GENERATION USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED DATA CONFIGURATION MIGRATION | RIEGLER, PATRICK F | 2171 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 17930875 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING A CAPITAL EXPENDITURE AND A NON-CAPITAL EXPENDITURE | SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | 3625 | §101 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Sep 09, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCdk Global LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Chad S Dickerson has the most, with 1 of Cdk Global LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
