Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
13 pending office actions • 9 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days
Coinbase Inc. is managing 13 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 12 distinct examiners and 9 distinct art units. This wide distribution across 9 distinct art units indicates a diverse range of technical subject matter within the company's portfolio. Such a high number of art units suggests that the company's innovations touch upon many different specialized examination categories within the patent office.
Nicholas K Phan is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 2 pending office actions. The remaining pending office actions are distributed among the other distinct examiners. This high number of distinct examiners relative to the 13 pending office actions suggests a decentralized prosecution strategy where most examiners are reviewing only a single matter. This approach allows the company to receive feedback from a broad array of 12 distinct examiners. Practitioners should be prepared for a variety of examination styles, as the active matters are being processed by nearly as many different individuals across 9 distinct art units. This decentralized approach ensures that the company's innovations are evaluated by a wide range of specialized groups and examiners.
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.
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.
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 | 6 (46%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (23%) |
| §103 only | 2 (15%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAN, NICHOLAS K | 2 | 51.8% | +18.8% |
| TSANG, HENRY | 1 | 80.0% | +17.1% |
| HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER | 1 | 64.0% | +52.8% |
| NGUYEN, CAROLINE HOANG-ANH | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| ROSEN, ELIZABETH H | 1 | 45.7% | +49.6% |
| ANDREI, RADU | 1 | 36.3% | +20.0% |
| LOZA, JANICE JOMARIE | 1 | 13.3% | +40.0% |
| NWUHA, SAMUEL OBINNA NNAJI | 1 | — | — |
| LIU, I JUNG | 1 | 61.8% | +33.4% |
| JAMES, GREGORY MARK | 1 | 19.4% | +14.2% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19042296 | Secure Authorization and Transmission of Data Between Trustless Actors | TSANG, HENRY | — |
| 18826157 | SECURE TRANSFER OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION FOR VIRTUAL ASSET SERVICE PROVIDERS | NGUYEN, CAROLINE HOANG-ANH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18129572 | TRANSFER OF LIQUID STAKING TOKENS | PHAN, NICHOLAS K | 53d overdue |
| 18199917 | USING BLOCKCHAIN WALLET FOR TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION | IMMANUEL, ILSE I | 50d overdue |
| 18372050 | TRACKING STAKED TOKEN RETURNS | JAMES, GREGORY MARK | 18d overdue |
| 18372052 | CRYPTO TOKEN THRESHOLD NOTIFICATIONS | LIU, I JUNG | 5d overdue |
| 18389760 | SINGLE CASH BALANCE | ANDREI, RADU | 70d |
| 18145642 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING INITIAL DEPLOYMENTS OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC ASSETS ACROSS COMPUTER NETWORKS IN A CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SECURE MANNER | MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN | 78d |
| 19005830 | USER INTERFACES OF A MOBILE APPLICATION FOR A CUSTODIAL TOKEN PLATFORM | HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER | — |
| 18803519 | EXTERNAL FIAT CASHOUT VIA A SELF-CUSTODY APPLICATION | ROSEN, ELIZABETH H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18129572 | TRANSFER OF LIQUID STAKING TOKENS | PHAN, NICHOLAS K | 53d overdue |
| 18372050 | TRACKING STAKED TOKEN RETURNS | JAMES, GREGORY MARK | 18d overdue |
| 18372052 | CRYPTO TOKEN THRESHOLD NOTIFICATIONS | LIU, I JUNG | 5d overdue |
| 18389760 | SINGLE CASH BALANCE | ANDREI, RADU | 70d |
| 19042296 | Secure Authorization and Transmission of Data Between Trustless Actors | TSANG, HENRY | — |
| 19005830 | USER INTERFACES OF A MOBILE APPLICATION FOR A CUSTODIAL TOKEN PLATFORM | HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER | — |
| 18803519 | EXTERNAL FIAT CASHOUT VIA A SELF-CUSTODY APPLICATION | ROSEN, ELIZABETH H | — |
| 18521908 | ON-CHAIN ATTESTATIONS USING USER DATA | LOZA, JANICE JOMARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3699 | 3 |
| 3695 | 2 |
| 2495 | 1 |
| 3693 | 1 |
| 3697 | 1 |
| 3698 | 1 |
| 2194 | 1 |
| 3692 | 1 |
| 2454 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19042296 | Secure Authorization and Transmission of Data Between Trustless Actors | TSANG, HENRY | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19005830 | USER INTERFACES OF A MOBILE APPLICATION FOR A CUSTODIAL TOKEN PLATFORM | HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER | 3695 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18826157 | SECURE TRANSFER OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION FOR VIRTUAL ASSET SERVICE PROVIDERS | NGUYEN, CAROLINE HOANG-ANH | 2495 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18803519 | EXTERNAL FIAT CASHOUT VIA A SELF-CUSTODY APPLICATION | ROSEN, ELIZABETH H | 3693 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18389760 | SINGLE CASH BALANCE | ANDREI, RADU | 3697 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18521908 | ON-CHAIN ATTESTATIONS USING USER DATA | LOZA, JANICE JOMARIE | 3698 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18375338 | DYNAMIC CONTENT FOR A TOKEN PLATFORM | NWUHA, SAMUEL OBINNA NNAJI | 2194 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18372052 | CRYPTO TOKEN THRESHOLD NOTIFICATIONS | LIU, I JUNG | 3695 | §101 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18372050 | TRACKING STAKED TOKEN RETURNS | JAMES, GREGORY MARK | 3692 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18199917 | USING BLOCKCHAIN WALLET FOR TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION | IMMANUEL, ILSE I | 3699 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 50d overdue | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
| 18129572 | TRANSFER OF LIQUID STAKING TOKENS | PHAN, NICHOLAS K | 3699 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 53d overdue | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18122650 | WEB3 TRANSFER PROTOCOL | PHAN, NICHOLAS K | 3699 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
| 18145642 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING INITIAL DEPLOYMENTS OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC ASSETS ACROSS COMPUTER NETWORKS IN A CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SECURE MANNER | MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN | 2454 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 78d | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
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