Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. is managing 8 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 8 distinct examiners. The portfolio involves 4 distinct art units.
GRAY, RYAN M is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending action. With 8 pending office actions and 8 distinct examiners, every pending case is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution across 4 distinct art units indicates a diverse set of examiner perspectives within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
The presence of 8 pending office actions means the company has a steady stream of prosecution work. Because there are 8 distinct examiners, practitioners cannot rely on a single relationship to resolve multiple cases. The 1 action per examiner necessitates a case-by-case approach to each office action response across the 4 art units.
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 only | 3 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAY, RYAN M | 1 | 87.6% | +11.7% |
| TRAN, HAI | 1 | 62.1% | +31.8% |
| MALINOWSKI, WALTER J | 1 | 69.9% | +52.1% |
| BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | 1 | 84.0% | +10.3% |
| FERRER, JEDIDIAH P | 1 | 51.9% | +38.4% |
| MAI, KEVIN S | 1 | 29.9% | +25.8% |
| LIU, I JUNG | 1 | 61.8% | +33.4% |
| SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N | 1 | 6.3% | +8.3% |
| WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 1 | 18.6% | +19.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19058302 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAUSING GRAPHICAL INFORMATION TO BE RENDERED | GRAY, RYAN M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18939762 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURABLE ORDERED TRANSFORMATION OF DATABASE CONTENT | FERRER, JEDIDIAH P | 45d overdue |
| 18961567 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING USERS USING WEAK AUTHENTICATION TECHNIQUES, WITH DIFFERENCES FOR DIFFERENT FEATURES | MALINOWSKI, WALTER J | 15d |
| 18891323 | APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND HANDLING ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR BY USERS AND OTHER ENTITIES | LIU, I JUNG | 20d |
| 18365525 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIMITING PROJECT MANAGEMENT RISK | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 61d |
| 19022409 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRADING SECURITIES USING PORTFOLIOS DEFINED BY AN ADVISOR | TRAN, HAI | — |
| 18961761 | METHOD, APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR EXPERIENTIAL BASED INVESTMENT RECOMMENDATIONS | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | — |
| 18911327 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTING DATABASE INTERACTIONS AND EVALUATING INTERACTION PARAMETERS | MAI, KEVIN S | — |
| 18591592 | MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FRAMEWORK TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS AND DISPLAY THEREOF | SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18939762 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURABLE ORDERED TRANSFORMATION OF DATABASE CONTENT | FERRER, JEDIDIAH P | 45d overdue |
| 18961567 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING USERS USING WEAK AUTHENTICATION TECHNIQUES, WITH DIFFERENCES FOR DIFFERENT FEATURES | MALINOWSKI, WALTER J | 15d |
| 18891323 | APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND HANDLING ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR BY USERS AND OTHER ENTITIES | LIU, I JUNG | 20d |
| 18365525 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIMITING PROJECT MANAGEMENT RISK | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 61d |
| 19058302 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAUSING GRAPHICAL INFORMATION TO BE RENDERED | GRAY, RYAN M | — |
| 19022409 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRADING SECURITIES USING PORTFOLIOS DEFINED BY AN ADVISOR | TRAN, HAI | — |
| 18961761 | METHOD, APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR EXPERIENTIAL BASED INVESTMENT RECOMMENDATIONS | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | — |
| 18911327 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTING DATABASE INTERACTIONS AND EVALUATING INTERACTION PARAMETERS | MAI, KEVIN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3695 | 2 |
| 2439 | 1 |
| 2153 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19058302 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAUSING GRAPHICAL INFORMATION TO BE RENDERED | GRAY, RYAN M | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19022409 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRADING SECURITIES USING PORTFOLIOS DEFINED BY AN ADVISOR | TRAN, HAI | 3695 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | 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 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18961761 | METHOD, APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR EXPERIENTIAL BASED INVESTMENT RECOMMENDATIONS | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18939762 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURABLE ORDERED TRANSFORMATION OF DATABASE CONTENT | FERRER, JEDIDIAH P | 2153 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18911327 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTING DATABASE INTERACTIONS AND EVALUATING INTERACTION PARAMETERS | MAI, KEVIN S | — | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18891323 | APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND HANDLING ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR BY USERS AND OTHER ENTITIES | LIU, I JUNG | 3695 | §101 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Sep 20, 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 |
| 18365525 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIMITING PROJECT MANAGEMENT RISK | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 3629 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
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