Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 8 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
D2L Corporation currently faces 10 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This portfolio shows significant breadth, as the 10 pending office actions are distributed across 8 distinct art units. This high number of art units relative to the total actions suggests that the company's innovations span a wide variety of technical sub-sectors, requiring a broad understanding of different examination standards within the office.
The prosecution is handled by 10 distinct examiners, with SIMPSON, DIONE N being the busiest, holding 1 pending office action. Because each of the 10 distinct examiners is only managing a single case, there is no examiner-specific concentration. The primary challenge for this portfolio lies in navigating the 8 distinct art units, which likely represent diverse examination standards. Practitioners must coordinate strategies across 10 distinct examiners to ensure that the 10 pending office actions receive consistent treatment where technical overlaps exist.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 | 5 (50%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (30%) |
| §103 only | 2 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIMPSON, DIONE N | 1 | 32.6% | +32.4% |
| LE, UYEN T | 1 | 83.9% | +9.5% |
| LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE | 1 | 88.5% | +5.3% |
| TRAN, ANHTAI V | 1 | 79.2% | +16.1% |
| RUHL, DENNIS WILLIAM | 1 | 26.3% | +23.5% |
| WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 1 | 18.6% | +19.0% |
| HOLZMACHER, DERICK J | 1 | 44.3% | +28.4% |
| HULL, JAMES B | 1 | 45.4% | +52.4% |
| ZAMAN, SADARUZ | 1 | 45.6% | +33.7% |
| UTAMA, ROBERT J | 1 | 60.2% | +29.4% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963625 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL ELECTRONIC LEARNING | LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE | 15d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17325368 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING LEARNER ENGAGEMENT DURING A LEARNING EVENT | ZAMAN, SADARUZ | 50d overdue |
| 18821158 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CROWD SOURCING IN AN ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT | RUHL, DENNIS WILLIAM | 3d overdue |
| 17665194 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING LEARNER'S ROLES AND PERFORMANCE AND FOR INTELLIGENTLY ADAPTING THE DELIVERY OF EDUCATION | HULL, JAMES B | 9d |
| 18989360 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COURSE ASSESSMENT IN A LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | SIMPSON, DIONE N | 29d |
| 18103657 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING INDIVIDUALS FOR OPEN ROLES | HOLZMACHER, DERICK J | 83d |
| 18972141 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING METADATA ABOUT CONTENT STORED IN A REPOSITORY | LE, UYEN T | — |
| 18678820 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING VISUALIZATIONS INDICATIVE OF LEARNER PERFORMANCE IN AN eLEARNING SYSTEM | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | — |
| 16699034 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONDUCTING ASSESSMENTS IN AN ELECTRONIC LEARNING SYSTEM | UTAMA, ROBERT J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17325368 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING LEARNER ENGAGEMENT DURING A LEARNING EVENT | ZAMAN, SADARUZ | 50d overdue |
| 18912807 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN REPOSITORIES | TRAN, ANHTAI V | 28d overdue |
| 18821158 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CROWD SOURCING IN AN ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT | RUHL, DENNIS WILLIAM | 3d overdue |
| 17665194 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING LEARNER'S ROLES AND PERFORMANCE AND FOR INTELLIGENTLY ADAPTING THE DELIVERY OF EDUCATION | HULL, JAMES B | 9d |
| 18989360 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COURSE ASSESSMENT IN A LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | SIMPSON, DIONE N | 29d |
| 18103657 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING INDIVIDUALS FOR OPEN ROLES | HOLZMACHER, DERICK J | 83d |
| 18678820 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING VISUALIZATIONS INDICATIVE OF LEARNER PERFORMANCE IN AN eLEARNING SYSTEM | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | — |
| 16699034 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONDUCTING ASSESSMENTS IN AN ELECTRONIC LEARNING SYSTEM | UTAMA, ROBERT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 3 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| 2156 | 1 |
| 2161 | 1 |
| 2168 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18989360 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COURSE ASSESSMENT IN A LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | SIMPSON, DIONE N | 3628 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18972141 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING METADATA ABOUT CONTENT STORED IN A REPOSITORY | LE, UYEN T | 2156 | §101§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18963625 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL ELECTRONIC LEARNING | LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE | 2161 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Nov 28, 2024 |
| 18912807 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN REPOSITORIES | TRAN, ANHTAI V | 2168 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18821158 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CROWD SOURCING IN AN ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT | RUHL, DENNIS WILLIAM | 3626 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18678820 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING VISUALIZATIONS INDICATIVE OF LEARNER PERFORMANCE IN AN eLEARNING SYSTEM | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 3629 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18103657 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING INDIVIDUALS FOR OPEN ROLES | HOLZMACHER, DERICK J | 3625 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Jan 31, 2023 |
| 17665194 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING LEARNER'S ROLES AND PERFORMANCE AND FOR INTELLIGENTLY ADAPTING THE DELIVERY OF EDUCATION | HULL, JAMES B | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Feb 04, 2022 |
| 17325368 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING LEARNER ENGAGEMENT DURING A LEARNING EVENT | ZAMAN, SADARUZ | 3715 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 50d overdue | Pending | May 20, 2021 |
| 16699034 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONDUCTING ASSESSMENTS IN AN ELECTRONIC LEARNING SYSTEM | UTAMA, ROBERT J | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2019 |
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