Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 13, 2026

DIGIMARC Corporation

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

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.

2
Hard (50%)
2
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (25%)
§103 only2 (50%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
25% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
25% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
25% of docket
1
Business / Other
25% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NAHAR, SAYEDA S 1 74.3% +25.0%
FRANKLIN, JAMARA ALZAIDA 1 84.0% +6.5%
ZHAO, DON GORDON 1 87.4% +16.2%
OBAID, FATEH M 1 67.8% +35.5%

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
19023100 ROBUST ENCODING OF MACHINE READABLE INFORMATION IN HOST OBJECTS AND BIOMETRICS, AND ASSOCIATED DECODING AND AUTHENTICATION ZHAO, DON GORDON 70d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18672291 FACTORY ACTIVATION OF DIGITAL IDENTITIES OBAID, FATEH M 6d
19044455 LASER MARKING OF MACHINE-READABLE CODES FRANKLIN, JAMARA ALZAIDA

Interview Candidates (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18672291 FACTORY ACTIVATION OF DIGITAL IDENTITIES OBAID, FATEH M 6d
19023100 ROBUST ENCODING OF MACHINE READABLE INFORMATION IN HOST OBJECTS AND BIOMETRICS, AND ASSOCIATED DECODING AND AUTHENTICATION ZHAO, DON GORDON 70d
19195334 AUTHENTICATING MULTI-LAYERED OBJECTS USING ENCODED SIGNALS NAHAR, SAYEDA S

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2876 1
2493 1
3627 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19195334 AUTHENTICATING MULTI-LAYERED OBJECTS USING ENCODED SIGNALS NAHAR, SAYEDA S §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 30, 2025
19044455 LASER MARKING OF MACHINE-READABLE CODES FRANKLIN, JAMARA ALZAIDA 2876 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 03, 2025
19023100 ROBUST ENCODING OF MACHINE READABLE INFORMATION IN HOST OBJECTS AND BIOMETRICS, AND ASSOCIATED DECODING AND AUTHENTICATION ZHAO, DON GORDON 2493 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jan 15, 2025
18672291 FACTORY ACTIVATION OF DIGITAL IDENTITIES OBAID, FATEH M 3627 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA 6d Pending May 23, 2024

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