Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cdk Global LLC has 4 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, showing a high degree of technical and personnel diversity in its current prosecution. This distribution means that every pending action is being reviewed by a different individual in a different technical group.
The busiest examiner for the company is JACOB, AJITH, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This accounts for a portion of the 4 total pending actions currently active. Because there are 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units for only 4 actions, every single matter is being handled by a different person in a different technical group. The 1 pending office action assigned to JACOB, AJITH is the only one for that examiner.
Practitioners must manage 4 distinct examiner relationships across 4 distinct art units, which requires a versatile strategy. Each of the 4 pending office actions is subject to the specific standards of a different Computing & Software art unit. The outcome of the company's current prosecution will be determined by these four separate and independent interactions at the patent office across the 4 distinct art units.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JACOB, AJITH | 1 | 79.0% | +4.1% |
| DICKERSON, CHAD S | 1 | 62.8% | +23.1% |
| HTAY, LIN LIN M | 1 | 71.4% | +24.6% |
| SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | 1 | 25.9% | +36.8% |
| MENDAYE, KIDEST H | 1 | 81.0% | +32.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17660285 | CENTRALIZED CONFIGURATION FOR A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM | MENDAYE, KIDEST H | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763320 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR VERIFYING ENTRIES IN DISPARATE DATABASES | HTAY, LIN LIN M | 34d |
| 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763320 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR VERIFYING ENTRIES IN DISPARATE DATABASES | HTAY, LIN LIN M | 34d |
| 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 | — |
| 17660285 | CENTRALIZED CONFIGURATION FOR A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM | MENDAYE, KIDEST H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2161 | 1 |
| 2683 | 1 |
| 2153 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 2457 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19068946 | CLOUD SERVICE PLATFORM INTEGRATION WITH DEALER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS | JACOB, AJITH | 2161 | §102DP | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 18792468 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING PRINTING USAGE STATISTICS | DICKERSON, CHAD S | 2683 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18763320 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR VERIFYING ENTRIES IN DISPARATE DATABASES | HTAY, LIN LIN M | 2153 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jul 03, 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 |
| 17660285 | CENTRALIZED CONFIGURATION FOR A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM | MENDAYE, KIDEST H | 2457 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2022 |
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