Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 14, 2026

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.

8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

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.

7
Hard (88%)
1
Medium (12%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (25%)
§101 + other3 (38%)
Double-patenting + other1 (12%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
38% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
38% of docket
2
Business / Other
25% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
OWYANG, MICHELLE N 1 76.1% +29.4%
LITTLE, VANCE M 1 83.8% +24.6%
WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H 1 89.5% +12.5%
TRAN, HAI 1 62.1% +31.8%
MALINOWSKI, WALTER J 1 69.6% +52.9%
FERRER, JEDIDIAH P 1 52.2% +40.3%
SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N 1 6.3% +8.3%
FU, HAO 1 50.1% +25.1%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19068125 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IP-BASED NETWORK INTRUSION DETECTION AND PREVENTION LITTLE, VANCE M

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18939762 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURABLE ORDERED TRANSFORMATION OF DATABASE CONTENT FERRER, JEDIDIAH P 45d overdue
18449266 SEARCH SPACE MINIMIZATION FOR COMPUTERIZED TIME-SERIES DATA FORECASTING SYSTEM FU, HAO 32d overdue
18961567 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING USERS USING WEAK AUTHENTICATION TECHNIQUES, WITH DIFFERENCES FOR DIFFERENT FEATURES MALINOWSKI, WALTER J 15d
19207623 EVENT-DRIVEN COMPUTER MODELING SYSTEM FOR TIME SERIES DATA OWYANG, MICHELLE N
19066742 INTRUSION DETECTION AND PREVENTION SYSTEM RULE AUTOMATION AND OPTIMIZATION WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H
19022409 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRADING SECURITIES USING PORTFOLIOS DEFINED BY AN ADVISOR TRAN, HAI
18591592 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FRAMEWORK TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS AND DISPLAY THEREOF SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18939762 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURABLE ORDERED TRANSFORMATION OF DATABASE CONTENT FERRER, JEDIDIAH P 45d overdue
18449266 SEARCH SPACE MINIMIZATION FOR COMPUTERIZED TIME-SERIES DATA FORECASTING SYSTEM FU, HAO 32d overdue
18961567 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING USERS USING WEAK AUTHENTICATION TECHNIQUES, WITH DIFFERENCES FOR DIFFERENT FEATURES MALINOWSKI, WALTER J 15d
19207623 EVENT-DRIVEN COMPUTER MODELING SYSTEM FOR TIME SERIES DATA OWYANG, MICHELLE N
19068125 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IP-BASED NETWORK INTRUSION DETECTION AND PREVENTION LITTLE, VANCE M
19066742 INTRUSION DETECTION AND PREVENTION SYSTEM RULE AUTOMATION AND OPTIMIZATION WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H
19022409 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRADING SECURITIES USING PORTFOLIOS DEFINED BY AN ADVISOR TRAN, HAI

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3695 2
2168 1
2439 1
2153 1
3624 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19207623 EVENT-DRIVEN COMPUTER MODELING SYSTEM FOR TIME SERIES DATA OWYANG, MICHELLE N 2168 §101§103Other Non-Final OA Pending May 14, 2025
19068125 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IP-BASED NETWORK INTRUSION DETECTION AND PREVENTION LITTLE, VANCE M §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Mar 03, 2025
19066742 INTRUSION DETECTION AND PREVENTION SYSTEM RULE AUTOMATION AND OPTIMIZATION WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 28, 2025
19022409 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRADING SECURITIES USING PORTFOLIOS DEFINED BY AN ADVISOR TRAN, HAI 3695 §101Other Final Rejection Pending Jan 15, 2025
18961567 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING USERS USING WEAK AUTHENTICATION TECHNIQUES, WITH DIFFERENCES FOR DIFFERENT FEATURES MALINOWSKI, WALTER J 2439 §103§112 Final Rejection 15d Pending Nov 27, 2024
18939762 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURABLE ORDERED TRANSFORMATION OF DATABASE CONTENT FERRER, JEDIDIAH P 2153 §101§103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2024
18591592 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FRAMEWORK TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS AND DISPLAY THEREOF SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N 3624 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 29, 2024
18449266 SEARCH SPACE MINIMIZATION FOR COMPUTERIZED TIME-SERIES DATA FORECASTING SYSTEM FU, HAO 3695 §101Other Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Aug 14, 2023

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