Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Digital First Holdings LLC

Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

12 pending office actions • 9 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Digital First Holdings LLC has 13 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The docket is distributed among 13 distinct examiners and 9 distinct art units, showing complete examiner dispersion with recurring art-unit assignments.

AUSTIN, JAMIE H is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The absence of examiner concentration makes portfolio-wide consistency important, while the repeated art-unit settings may offer opportunities to identify recurring examination themes.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

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.

9
Hard (75%)
3
Medium (25%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (8%)
§101 + other5 (42%)
§103 only3 (25%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
25% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
9
Mechanical / Eng
75% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
AUSTIN, JAMIE H 1 24.9% +32.7%
DUCK, BRANDON M 1 63.1% +18.2%
SALMAN, AVIA ABDULSATTAR 1 47.8% +41.8%
SHIH, HAOSHIAN 1 69.7% +20.6%
LUDWIG, PETER L 1 35.2% +22.5%
JAMES, GREGORY MARK 1 19.6% +14.7%
LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D 1 58.6% +54.8%
WALTON, CHESIREE A 1 31.1% +29.1%
OSMAN, RAMY M 1 78.9% -9.2%
MILLER, JAMES H 1 41.1% +36.8%

Hard Cases (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18400959 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL SIGNATURE OF IMAGE-BASED CHECK DEPOSITS AND REAL-TIME REVIEW THEREOF LUDWIG, PETER L 71d overdue
18375176 CROSS-CHANNEL AUTHENTICATION AT AN ATM OR KIOSK JAMES, GREGORY MARK 10d overdue
18216687 COMMUNICATION WITH A BANK TELLER MILLER, JAMES H 56d
18375233 AUTHENTICATION PROVIDER ELIGIBILITY LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D 83d
19225797 SELF-SOVEREIGN IDENTITY STRUCTURED MESSAGING FOR CROSS CHANNEL AUTHENTICATION AUSTIN, JAMIE H —
19211632 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEPOSIT PROCESSING NOTIFICATION DUCK, BRANDON M —
18758636 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY LOADING USER INTERFACE COMPONENTS SHIH, HAOSHIAN —
18228242 SELF-SUPERVISED CHURN PREDICTIONS WALTON, CHESIREE A —

Interview Candidates (9)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18400959 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL SIGNATURE OF IMAGE-BASED CHECK DEPOSITS AND REAL-TIME REVIEW THEREOF LUDWIG, PETER L 71d overdue
18375176 CROSS-CHANNEL AUTHENTICATION AT AN ATM OR KIOSK JAMES, GREGORY MARK 10d overdue
18216687 COMMUNICATION WITH A BANK TELLER MILLER, JAMES H 56d
18375233 AUTHENTICATION PROVIDER ELIGIBILITY LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D 83d
19225797 SELF-SOVEREIGN IDENTITY STRUCTURED MESSAGING FOR CROSS CHANNEL AUTHENTICATION AUSTIN, JAMIE H —
19211632 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEPOSIT PROCESSING NOTIFICATION DUCK, BRANDON M —
18828319 Techniques for Kiosk Transactions SALMAN, AVIA ABDULSATTAR —
18758636 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY LOADING USER INTERFACE COMPONENTS SHIH, HAOSHIAN —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3693 3
3627 2
3625 1
2179 1
3692 1
2493 1
3624 1
2457 1
3694 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19225797 SELF-SOVEREIGN IDENTITY STRUCTURED MESSAGING FOR CROSS CHANNEL AUTHENTICATION AUSTIN, JAMIE H 3625 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 02, 2025
19211632 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEPOSIT PROCESSING NOTIFICATION DUCK, BRANDON M 3693 §101§102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending May 19, 2025
18828319 Techniques for Kiosk Transactions SALMAN, AVIA ABDULSATTAR 3627 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 09, 2024
18758636 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY LOADING USER INTERFACE COMPONENTS SHIH, HAOSHIAN 2179 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 28, 2024
18400959 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL SIGNATURE OF IMAGE-BASED CHECK DEPOSITS AND REAL-TIME REVIEW THEREOF LUDWIG, PETER L 3627 §101§103 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2023
18375176 CROSS-CHANNEL AUTHENTICATION AT AN ATM OR KIOSK JAMES, GREGORY MARK 3692 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18375233 AUTHENTICATION PROVIDER ELIGIBILITY LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D 2493 §103§112 Final Rejection 83d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18228242 SELF-SUPERVISED CHURN PREDICTIONS WALTON, CHESIREE A 3624 §101§102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 31, 2023
18217210 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A REMOTE SERVICE OSMAN, RAMY M 2457 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 30, 2023
18216687 COMMUNICATION WITH A BANK TELLER MILLER, JAMES H 3694 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 56d Pending Jun 30, 2023
17725682 DECENTRALIZED NETWORK SERVICES FOR CENTRALIZED NETWORK SERVICES ROSEN, ELIZABETH H 3693 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 21, 2022
15251634 OMNI-CHANNEL COLLABORATION INFRASTRUCTURE WONG, ERIC TAK WAI 3693 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 30, 2016

Managing Digital First Holdings LLC's Patent Portfolio?

IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.

Start Free Trial

Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Digital First Holdings LLC have?

Digital First Holdings LLC has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 12 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Digital First Holdings LLC applications?

Jamie H Austin has the most, with 1 of Digital First Holdings LLC's pending office actions.

What technology area are Digital First Holdings LLC's patent applications in?

Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

Sign in with your work email

Enter your email to receive a magic link. No password needed.

Personal email addresses (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) are not accepted.

Free tier: 3 strategy analyses per month