Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.

21 pending office actions • 11 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 66 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

21
Total Pending OAs
14
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
8
Due this month
5
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (5)Due later (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.

11
Hard (52%)
4
Medium (19%)
1
Easy (5%)
5
Unknown (24%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only11 (52%)
§103 only3 (14%)
§102 only1 (5%)
§112 only1 (5%)
No statute on record5 (24%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
14% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
18
Mechanical / Eng
86% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

210 h
Manual time on pending OAs
42 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
74 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MILEF, ELDA G 2 40.5% +8.0%
LIU, I JUNG 2 62.1% +33.8%
OYEBISI, OJO O 1 50.1% +12.1%
BRIDGES, CHRISTOPHER 1 44.7% +11.0%
KING, DAVIDA LEE 1 33.3% +41.7%
UDDIN, MD I 1 77.3% +73.5%
POINVIL, FRANTZY 1 79.2% +15.8%
MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 1 85.4% +14.0%
JARRETT, SCOTT L 1 52.1% +48.1%
SCHWARZENBERG, PAUL 1 61.9% +28.4%

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
18936260 PEER-TO-PEER DATA MESSAGE MATCHING MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 21d

Hard Cases (11)

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
18742365 TRANSACTIONALLY DETERMINISTIC HIGH SPEED FINANCIAL EXCHANGE HAVING IMPROVED, EFFICIENCY, COMMUNICATION, CUSTOMIZATION, PERFORMANCE, ACCESS, TRADING OPPORTUNITIES, CREDIT CONTROLS, AND FAULT TOLERANCE GAW, MARK H 30d overdue
18889934 PORTFOLIO OPTIMIZATION AND TRANSACTION GENERATION SCHWARZENBERG, PAUL 1d overdue
16660201 CLIENT SPECIFIC DATA DISTRIBUTION KANERVO, VIRPI H 14d
17571818 APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT VOLATILITY INDEX PLATFORM LIU, I JUNG 16d
18640697 MULTI-PATH ROUTING SYSTEM INCLUDING AN INTEGRITY MECHANISM KAZIMI, HANI M 27d
18990257 HIERARCHICAL CONSENSUS PROTOCOL FRAMEWORK FOR IMPLEMENTING ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION PROCESSING SYSTEMS KING, DAVIDA LEE 28d
18990151 NETWORK SWITCH AND TERMINAL DEVICE MILEF, ELDA G 34d
19005398 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COORDINATING PROCESSING OF SCHEDULED INSTRUCTIONS ACROSS MULTIPLE COMPONENTS BRIDGES, CHRISTOPHER 41d

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18889934 PORTFOLIO OPTIMIZATION AND TRANSACTION GENERATION SCHWARZENBERG, PAUL 1d overdue
17571818 APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT VOLATILITY INDEX PLATFORM LIU, I JUNG 16d
19088274 COMPUTER METHODOLOGY PROVIDING AS-OF-DAY VOLATILITY SURFACE CONSTRUCTION FOR PRICING OYEBISI, OJO O 19d
18936260 PEER-TO-PEER DATA MESSAGE MATCHING MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 21d
18990257 HIERARCHICAL CONSENSUS PROTOCOL FRAMEWORK FOR IMPLEMENTING ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION PROCESSING SYSTEMS KING, DAVIDA LEE 28d
16700420 RULE BASED VECTOR SPACE MODEL FOR CREATING IMPLIED TRADE TEMPLATES LIU, I JUNG 34d
18970152 COMPRESSION OF FLUCTUATING DATA UDDIN, MD I 39d
19005398 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COORDINATING PROCESSING OF SCHEDULED INSTRUCTIONS ACROSS MULTIPLE COMPONENTS BRIDGES, CHRISTOPHER 41d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3695 4
3693 3
3691 3
3694 2
3699 2
3696 2
2169 1
2441 1
3625 1
2458 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19088274 COMPUTER METHODOLOGY PROVIDING AS-OF-DAY VOLATILITY SURFACE CONSTRUCTION FOR PRICING OYEBISI, OJO O 3695 Other Non-Final OA 19d Pending Mar 24, 2025
19086980 LOW LATENCY REGULATION OF DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION PROCESSING IN ACCORDANCE WITH CENTRALIZED DEMAND-BASED DYNAMICALLY REALLOCATED LIMITS MILEF, ELDA G 3694 Other Non-Final OA 21d Pending Mar 21, 2025
19005398 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COORDINATING PROCESSING OF SCHEDULED INSTRUCTIONS ACROSS MULTIPLE COMPONENTS BRIDGES, CHRISTOPHER 3693 §101 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Dec 30, 2024
18990151 NETWORK SWITCH AND TERMINAL DEVICE MILEF, ELDA G 3694 §101 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Dec 20, 2024
18990257 HIERARCHICAL CONSENSUS PROTOCOL FRAMEWORK FOR IMPLEMENTING ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION PROCESSING SYSTEMS KING, DAVIDA LEE 3699 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Dec 20, 2024
18970152 COMPRESSION OF FLUCTUATING DATA UDDIN, MD I 2169 §103 Final Rejection 39d Pending Dec 05, 2024
18946049 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ITERATIVE OPTIMIZATION OF RELATED OBJECTS POINVIL, FRANTZY 3693 §101 Final Rejection 84d Pending Nov 13, 2024
18936260 PEER-TO-PEER DATA MESSAGE MATCHING MANIWANG, JOSEPH R 2441 §112 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Nov 04, 2024
18899828 PRE-PROCESSING FINANCIAL MARKET DATA PRIOR TO MACHINE LEARNING TRAINING JARRETT, SCOTT L 3625 §101 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Sep 27, 2024
18889934 PORTFOLIO OPTIMIZATION AND TRANSACTION GENERATION SCHWARZENBERG, PAUL 3695 §101 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Sep 19, 2024
18828031 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSOLIDATING MULTIPLE FEED DATA MAHMUD, GOLAM 2458 Other Non-Final OA 19d Pending Sep 09, 2024
18742365 TRANSACTIONALLY DETERMINISTIC HIGH SPEED FINANCIAL EXCHANGE HAVING IMPROVED, EFFICIENCY, COMMUNICATION, CUSTOMIZATION, PERFORMANCE, ACCESS, TRADING OPPORTUNITIES, CREDIT CONTROLS, AND FAULT TOLERANCE GAW, MARK H 3693 §101 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2024
18640697 MULTI-PATH ROUTING SYSTEM INCLUDING AN INTEGRITY MECHANISM KAZIMI, HANI M 3691 §101 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Apr 19, 2024
18441547 COMPRESSION OF PRICE CHANGE DATA JACOB, WILLIAM J 3696 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Feb 14, 2024
18543351 RESILIENT TRANSACTION PROCESSING PIPELINE ACROSS MULTIPLE DATA CENTERS ANDREI, RADU 3697 §101 Final Rejection 70d Pending Dec 18, 2023
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 §103 Non-Final OA 162d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2023
18120096 INTEREST RATE SWAP COMPRESSION SMITH, SLADE E 3696 Other Non-Final OA 124d overdue Pending Mar 10, 2023
17571818 APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT VOLATILITY INDEX PLATFORM LIU, I JUNG 3695 §101 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Jan 10, 2022
17323562 SPREAD PRICE SCALING FOR IMPLIED TRADE MATCHING ZELASKIEWICZ, CHRYSTINA E 3699 Other Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending May 18, 2021
16700420 RULE BASED VECTOR SPACE MODEL FOR CREATING IMPLIED TRADE TEMPLATES LIU, I JUNG 3695 §102 Final Rejection 34d Pending Dec 02, 2019
16660201 CLIENT SPECIFIC DATA DISTRIBUTION KANERVO, VIRPI H 3691 §101 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Oct 22, 2019

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