Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
13 pending office actions • 8 art units • 12 examiners • 1 of 13 (8%) have an AI response strategy ready
Comenity LLC maintains a robust prosecution profile with 14 pending office actions focused in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 8 distinct art units, indicating a broad range of subject matter within the sector. The workload involves 12 distinct examiners, suggesting a diverse set of perspectives and potential prosecution timelines for the applicant to manage. This variety requires a sophisticated approach to handling multiple simultaneous patent office interactions.
The busiest examiner for the company is GREGG, MARY M, who is currently responsible for 2 pending cases. This figure is relatively low compared to the total of 14 pending office actions, demonstrating that the portfolio is not overly concentrated under a single individual. With 12 distinct examiners engaged, the prosecution strategy must account for varied examiner behaviors across 8 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the company is actively pursuing a wide array of technological protections, necessitating coordination to ensure consistent results.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 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. 11 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 | 5 (38%) |
| §103 only | 2 (15%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREGG, MARY M | 2 | 14.0% | +14.2% |
| OJIAKU, CHIKAODINAKA | 1 | 45.9% | +8.5% |
| POINVIL, FRANTZY | 1 | 79.0% | +15.3% |
| SHAIKH, MOHAMMAD Z | 1 | 52.5% | +31.5% |
| OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 1 | 16.2% | +14.1% |
| SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD | 1 | 9.0% | +11.7% |
| CHISM, STEVEN R | 1 | 30.8% | +42.3% |
| JUNG, HENRY H | 1 | 22.9% | +30.7% |
| PATEL, DIPEN M | 1 | 20.1% | +23.8% |
| MILLER, JAMES H | 1 | 40.9% | +36.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15164740 | CLIENTELING CREDIT SUGGESTION CONFIDENCE | WONG, ERIC TAK WAI | 31d overdue |
| 17385838 | APPLY AND BUY WITH A CO-BRANDED VIRTUAL CARD | SHAIKH, MOHAMMAD Z | 17d overdue |
| 16745122 | TWO DEVICE AUTHENTICATION FOR A CREDIT APPLICATION | GREGG, MARY M | 9d overdue |
| 16042142 | INTERMEDIARY TO MANAGE A POINT EXCHANGE ACROSS A PLURALITY OF DIFFERENT REWARD PROGRAMS | PATEL, DIPEN M | 3d overdue |
| 16591384 | USING A CUSTOMER ID IN A MOBILE WALLET TO MAKE A TRANSACTION | JUNG, HENRY H | 2d overdue |
| 17929308 | CAPTURABLE CODE FOR AUTOMATICALLY FORMATTING AND ADDRESSING A TEXT MESSAGE TO APPLY FOR AN OFFER | OJIAKU, CHIKAODINAKA | 19d |
| 16800632 | AUTOMATIC PRICE AND/OR REWARD ADJUSTMENT BY A BRANDED CARD PROVIDER | SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD | 20d |
| 17648932 | ONE CARD | POINVIL, FRANTZY | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15394690 | SEAMLESS INTEGRATION OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION WITHIN A MOBILE RETAIL APPLICATION FRAMEWORK | MILLER, JAMES H | 23d overdue |
| 17385838 | APPLY AND BUY WITH A CO-BRANDED VIRTUAL CARD | SHAIKH, MOHAMMAD Z | 17d overdue |
| 16745122 | TWO DEVICE AUTHENTICATION FOR A CREDIT APPLICATION | GREGG, MARY M | 9d overdue |
| 16042142 | INTERMEDIARY TO MANAGE A POINT EXCHANGE ACROSS A PLURALITY OF DIFFERENT REWARD PROGRAMS | PATEL, DIPEN M | 3d overdue |
| 16591384 | USING A CUSTOMER ID IN A MOBILE WALLET TO MAKE A TRANSACTION | JUNG, HENRY H | 2d overdue |
| 16800632 | AUTOMATIC PRICE AND/OR REWARD ADJUSTMENT BY A BRANDED CARD PROVIDER | SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD | 20d |
| 17648932 | ONE CARD | POINVIL, FRANTZY | 27d |
| 16694904 | CUSTOMER ACQUISITION WITHOUT INITIALLY RECEIVING PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION (PII) | CHISM, STEVEN R | 48d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3695 | 3 |
| 3693 | 2 |
| 3694 | 2 |
| 3621 | 2 |
| 3696 | 1 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| 3692 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17929308 | CAPTURABLE CODE FOR AUTOMATICALLY FORMATTING AND ADDRESSING A TEXT MESSAGE TO APPLY FOR AN OFFER | OJIAKU, CHIKAODINAKA | 3696 | §101 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Sep 01, 2022 |
| 17648932 | ONE CARD | POINVIL, FRANTZY | 3693 | §101 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jan 25, 2022 |
| 17385838 | APPLY AND BUY WITH A CO-BRANDED VIRTUAL CARD | SHAIKH, MOHAMMAD Z | 3694 | §101 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Jul 26, 2021 |
| 16838925 | MIDDLE OUT LOYALTY | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 3622 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2020 |
| 16800632 | AUTOMATIC PRICE AND/OR REWARD ADJUSTMENT BY A BRANDED CARD PROVIDER | SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD | 3621 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 20d | AI Ready | Feb 25, 2020 |
| 16745122 | TWO DEVICE AUTHENTICATION FOR A CREDIT APPLICATION | GREGG, MARY M | 3695 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Jan 16, 2020 |
| 16694904 | CUSTOMER ACQUISITION WITHOUT INITIALLY RECEIVING PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION (PII) | CHISM, STEVEN R | 3692 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 48d | Pending | Nov 25, 2019 |
| 16595189 | OUT-OF-BAND VERIFICATION FOR AN ELECTRONIC APPLICATION | GREGG, MARY M | 3695 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2019 |
| 16591384 | USING A CUSTOMER ID IN A MOBILE WALLET TO MAKE A TRANSACTION | JUNG, HENRY H | 3695 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Oct 02, 2019 |
| 16042142 | INTERMEDIARY TO MANAGE A POINT EXCHANGE ACROSS A PLURALITY OF DIFFERENT REWARD PROGRAMS | PATEL, DIPEN M | 3621 | §101 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jul 23, 2018 |
| 15394690 | SEAMLESS INTEGRATION OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION WITHIN A MOBILE RETAIL APPLICATION FRAMEWORK | MILLER, JAMES H | 3694 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Dec 29, 2016 |
| 15164740 | CLIENTELING CREDIT SUGGESTION CONFIDENCE | WONG, ERIC TAK WAI | 3693 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | May 25, 2016 |
| 14616448 | PRIORITIZING CUSTOMER SERVICE | CHEN, WENREN | 3626 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Feb 06, 2015 |
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