Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Change Healthcare Holdings LLC currently manages 6 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 6 distinct examiners, indicating a fragmented prosecution landscape where each examiner handles a single action. The workload is spread across 5 distinct art units, suggesting that while the technology area is consistent, the specific technical focuses of the applications vary enough to trigger different departmental reviews.
LONG, MEREDITH A is identified as the busiest examiner for this company, though they are only responsible for 1 pending office action. This parity between the busiest examiner and the rest of the 6 distinct examiners highlights a lack of examiner concentration. Practitioners should prepare for diverse individual examiner preferences rather than a centralized negotiation strategy, as the 6 pending office actions are handled by different individuals across 5 distinct art units. The presence of these multiple art units for only a few pending office actions reflects a broad technical footprint within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 + other | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LONG, MEREDITH A | 1 | 43.2% | +21.1% |
| ASGARI, SIMA | 1 | 26.0% | +19.7% |
| WILCOX, JAMES J | 1 | 70.1% | +61.2% |
| OSMAN, RAMY M | 1 | 78.9% | -9.1% |
| HOLCOMB, MARK | 1 | 33.5% | +40.4% |
| RASNIC, HUNTER J | 1 | 11.2% | +22.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17219046 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR SHARING HEALTH CARE INFORMATION WITH DELEGATED ENTITIES USING DISCRETIONARY AND NON-DISCRETIONARY ACCESS RULES | RASNIC, HUNTER J | 70d |
| 19065436 | Medical Indication Determination Using Heterogeneous Data in a Clinical Decision Support System | LONG, MEREDITH A | — |
| 18055578 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS USING A VIRTUAL HEALTH WALLET | ASGARI, SIMA | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17980116 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF TRACE ID VALIDATION AND TRUST | WILCOX, JAMES J | 13d |
| 17665642 | PREEMPTIVE IMAGE DATA CACHING BASED ON GEOLOCATION | HOLCOMB, MARK | 27d |
| 17219046 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR SHARING HEALTH CARE INFORMATION WITH DELEGATED ENTITIES USING DISCRETIONARY AND NON-DISCRETIONARY ACCESS RULES | RASNIC, HUNTER J | 70d |
| 19065436 | Medical Indication Determination Using Heterogeneous Data in a Clinical Decision Support System | LONG, MEREDITH A | — |
| 18055578 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS USING A VIRTUAL HEALTH WALLET | ASGARI, SIMA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3698 | 1 |
| 2439 | 1 |
| 2457 | 1 |
| 3685 | 1 |
| 3684 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19065436 | Medical Indication Determination Using Heterogeneous Data in a Clinical Decision Support System | LONG, MEREDITH A | — | §101§102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 18055578 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS USING A VIRTUAL HEALTH WALLET | ASGARI, SIMA | 3698 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2022 |
| 17980116 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF TRACE ID VALIDATION AND TRUST | WILCOX, JAMES J | 2439 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Nov 03, 2022 |
| 18045488 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COMPLIANCE VERIFICATION AND AUDITING | OSMAN, RAMY M | 2457 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Oct 11, 2022 |
| 17665642 | PREEMPTIVE IMAGE DATA CACHING BASED ON GEOLOCATION | HOLCOMB, MARK | 3685 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Feb 07, 2022 |
| 17219046 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR SHARING HEALTH CARE INFORMATION WITH DELEGATED ENTITIES USING DISCRETIONARY AND NON-DISCRETIONARY ACCESS RULES | RASNIC, HUNTER J | 3684 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Mar 31, 2021 |
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