Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.

18 pending office actions • 10 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 63 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
2
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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.

10
Hard (56%)
4
Medium (22%)
4
Easy (22%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only7 (39%)
§101 + other3 (17%)
§102 only2 (11%)
§112 only1 (6%)
Double-patenting only3 (17%)
Double-patenting + other2 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
6% of docket
2
Information Tech
11% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
10
Mechanical / Eng
56% of docket
5
Business / Other
28% 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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BRIDGES, CHRISTOPHER 2 45.3% +10.5%
CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S 2 65.2% +32.0%
KUDIRKA, JOSEPH R 1 90.8% +9.7%
GIBSON, JONATHAN D 1 84.6% +10.8%
TRAN, NAM T 1 76.7% +26.3%
OYEBISI, OJO O 1 50.2% +11.9%
SHAH, MEHULKUMAR J 1 68.0% +35.7%
KING, DAVIDA LEE 1 34.1% +39.4%
JARRETT, SCOTT L 1 52.0% +47.9%
MALHOTRA, SANJEEV 1 65.8% +29.9%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19249618 FAILURE RECOVERY IN A FAULT TOLERANT ARCHITECTURE KUDIRKA, JOSEPH R
19245156 FAULT TOLERANT ARCHITECTURE GIBSON, JONATHAN D

Hard Cases (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18367686 TRANSACTIONALLY DETERMINISTIC HIGH SPEED FINANCIAL EXCHANGE HAVING IMPROVED, EFFICIENCY, COMMUNICATION, CUSTOMIZATION, PERFORMANCE, ACCESS, TRADING OPPORTUNITIES, CREDIT CONTROLS, AND FAULT TOLERANCE ALLADIN, AMBREEN A 162d overdue
18441547 COMPRESSION OF PRICE CHANGE DATA JACOB, WILLIAM J 49d overdue
19088274 COMPUTER METHODOLOGY PROVIDING AS-OF-DAY VOLATILITY SURFACE CONSTRUCTION FOR PRICING OYEBISI, OJO O 19d
16700420 RULE BASED VECTOR SPACE MODEL FOR CREATING IMPLIED TRADE TEMPLATES LIU, I JUNG 34d
19289924 MARKET OPERATION THROUGH REGULATION OF INCOMING ORDER MATCH ALLOCATION AND/OR DYNAMIC RESTING ORDER MATCH ALLOCATION PRIORITIES BRIDGES, CHRISTOPHER
19223281 SECURE DETERMINISTIC TOKENS FOR ENCRYPTING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S
19075178 SECURE DETERMINISTIC TOKENS FOR ELECTRONIC MESSAGES CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S
18757767 DISTRIBUTED CREDIT CONTROL WITH CENTRALIZED ALLOCATION MALHOTRA, SANJEEV

Interview Candidates (11)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19088274 COMPUTER METHODOLOGY PROVIDING AS-OF-DAY VOLATILITY SURFACE CONSTRUCTION FOR PRICING OYEBISI, OJO O 19d
18990257 HIERARCHICAL CONSENSUS PROTOCOL FRAMEWORK FOR IMPLEMENTING ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION PROCESSING SYSTEMS KING, DAVIDA LEE 28d
18899828 PRE-PROCESSING FINANCIAL MARKET DATA PRIOR TO MACHINE LEARNING TRAINING JARRETT, SCOTT L 41d
19289924 MARKET OPERATION THROUGH REGULATION OF INCOMING ORDER MATCH ALLOCATION AND/OR DYNAMIC RESTING ORDER MATCH ALLOCATION PRIORITIES BRIDGES, CHRISTOPHER
19288567 MARKET OPERATION THROUGH REGULATION OF INCOMING ORDER MATCH ALLOCATION AND/OR DYNAMIC RESTING ORDER MATCH ALLOCATION PRIORITIES BRIDGES, CHRISTOPHER
19245156 FAULT TOLERANT ARCHITECTURE GIBSON, JONATHAN D
19223281 SECURE DETERMINISTIC TOKENS FOR ENCRYPTING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S
19217120 SECURE MESSAGE PROCESSING PROTOCOL TRAN, NAM T

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2113 2
3695 2
3691 2
3694 1
3699 1
3625 1
3693 1
3696 1
1618 1
3684 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19289924 MARKET OPERATION THROUGH REGULATION OF INCOMING ORDER MATCH ALLOCATION AND/OR DYNAMIC RESTING ORDER MATCH ALLOCATION PRIORITIES BRIDGES, CHRISTOPHER §101 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 04, 2025
19288567 MARKET OPERATION THROUGH REGULATION OF INCOMING ORDER MATCH ALLOCATION AND/OR DYNAMIC RESTING ORDER MATCH ALLOCATION PRIORITIES BRIDGES, CHRISTOPHER §102 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 01, 2025
19249618 FAILURE RECOVERY IN A FAULT TOLERANT ARCHITECTURE KUDIRKA, JOSEPH R 2113 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 25, 2025
19245156 FAULT TOLERANT ARCHITECTURE GIBSON, JONATHAN D 2113 §102§103DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 20, 2025
19223281 SECURE DETERMINISTIC TOKENS FOR ENCRYPTING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S §101 Non-Final OA Pending May 30, 2025
19217120 SECURE MESSAGE PROCESSING PROTOCOL TRAN, NAM T DP Non-Final OA Pending May 23, 2025
19088274 COMPUTER METHODOLOGY PROVIDING AS-OF-DAY VOLATILITY SURFACE CONSTRUCTION FOR PRICING OYEBISI, OJO O 3695 §101 Final Rejection 19d Pending Mar 24, 2025
19075178 SECURE DETERMINISTIC TOKENS FOR ELECTRONIC MESSAGES CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S 3694 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 10, 2025
19022130 GRAPH-BASED DEPLOYMENT TOOL SHAH, MEHULKUMAR J §112DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 15, 2025
18990257 HIERARCHICAL CONSENSUS PROTOCOL FRAMEWORK FOR IMPLEMENTING ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION PROCESSING SYSTEMS KING, DAVIDA LEE 3699 DP Final Rejection 28d Pending Dec 20, 2024
18899828 PRE-PROCESSING FINANCIAL MARKET DATA PRIOR TO MACHINE LEARNING TRAINING JARRETT, SCOTT L 3625 DP Final Rejection 41d Pending Sep 27, 2024
18757767 DISTRIBUTED CREDIT CONTROL WITH CENTRALIZED ALLOCATION MALHOTRA, SANJEEV 3691 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 28, 2024
18637680 COUPON BLENDING OF A SWAP PORTFOLIO ANDERSON, MICHAEL W. 3693 §101 Final Rejection Pending Apr 17, 2024
18441547 COMPRESSION OF PRICE CHANGE DATA JACOB, WILLIAM J 3696 §101 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Feb 14, 2024
18367686 TRANSACTIONALLY DETERMINISTIC HIGH SPEED FINANCIAL EXCHANGE HAVING IMPROVED, EFFICIENCY, COMMUNICATION, CUSTOMIZATION, PERFORMANCE, ACCESS, TRADING OPPORTUNITIES, CREDIT CONTROLS, AND FAULT TOLERANCE ALLADIN, AMBREEN A 3691 §101§102§103Other Non-Final OA 162d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2023
17223336 NOVEL GOLD-BASED NANOCRYSTALS FOR MEDICAL TREATMENTS AND ELECTROCHEMICAL MANUFACTURING PROCESSES THEREFOR DICKINSON, PAUL W 1618 §112 Final Rejection Pending Apr 06, 2021
16800510 EQUATION-BASED TRANSACTION REQUEST MESSAGING AND TRANSACTION PROCESSING BARTLEY, KENNETH 3684 §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 25, 2020
16700420 RULE BASED VECTOR SPACE MODEL FOR CREATING IMPLIED TRADE TEMPLATES LIU, I JUNG 3695 §101§102 Final Rejection 34d Pending Dec 02, 2019

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