Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
China Unionpay Co., Ltd. currently has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. This 1 to 1 to 1 ratio between actions, examiners, and art units suggests that each pending application covers a different technical sub-area or is being processed independently. Practitioners should note that the company's current prosecution activity is spread across 3 separate administrative silos at the patent office.
TAYLOR, SAKINAH W is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 pending actions and 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is managing 1 case. The company must engage with 3 different examiners and 3 different art units to resolve its current pending actions. This decentralized prosecution profile suggests that the company's current innovation is spread across multiple technical disciplines within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. Managing 3 separate examiner relationships across 3 art units requires a diverse approach to prosecution, as each case is subject to different departmental standards and individual examiner discretion.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAYLOR, SAKINAH W | 1 | 86.7% | +23.2% |
| KRAISINGER, EMILY MARIE | 1 | 31.8% | +46.0% |
| PRASAD, NANCY N | 1 | 21.3% | +18.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18838663 | MERCHANT AUTHENTICITY VERIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON STREET VIEW IMAGE RECOGNITION | KRAISINGER, EMILY MARIE | 20d |
| 18994497 | PRIVACY COMPUTING DEVICE, METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MEDIUM | TAYLOR, SAKINAH W | — |
| 17607583 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATED PAYMENT | PRASAD, NANCY 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18838663 | MERCHANT AUTHENTICITY VERIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON STREET VIEW IMAGE RECOGNITION | KRAISINGER, EMILY MARIE | 20d |
| 18994497 | PRIVACY COMPUTING DEVICE, METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MEDIUM | TAYLOR, SAKINAH W | — |
| 17607583 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATED PAYMENT | PRASAD, NANCY N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2407 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18994497 | PRIVACY COMPUTING DEVICE, METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MEDIUM | TAYLOR, SAKINAH W | 2407 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18838663 | MERCHANT AUTHENTICITY VERIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON STREET VIEW IMAGE RECOGNITION | KRAISINGER, EMILY MARIE | 3626 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 17607583 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATED PAYMENT | PRASAD, NANCY N | 3624 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2021 |
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