Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Digital First Holdings LLC

9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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.

2
Hard (22%)
6
Medium (67%)
1
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (22%)
§103 only6 (67%)
§112 only1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
22% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
78% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LUDWIG, PETER L 1 35.4% +23.9%
LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D 1 58.2% +56.0%
SIDDIQI, MOHAMMAD A 1 85.2% +15.5%
XIAO, ZESHENG 1 43.0% +33.7%
JAMES, GREGORY MARK 1 19.2% +13.2%
KWONG, CHO YIU 1 32.0% +6.1%
HO, THOMAS Y 1 16.1% +30.7%
MILLER, JAMES H 1 40.5% +34.2%
AUSTIN, JAMIE H 1 24.8% +32.8%

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
18375183 CROSS-CHANNEL AUTHENTICATION VIA A REMOTE TELLER SIDDIQI, MOHAMMAD A 28d

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 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
18217217 CUSTOMER VALUE FORECASTING HO, THOMAS Y 30d overdue
18375176 CROSS-CHANNEL AUTHENTICATION AT AN ATM OR KIOSK JAMES, GREGORY MARK 10d overdue
17733183 PERSONAL IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION VERIFICATION FOR DECENTRALIZED NETWORK SERVICES AUSTIN, JAMIE H 5d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18217217 CUSTOMER VALUE FORECASTING HO, THOMAS Y 30d overdue
18375176 CROSS-CHANNEL AUTHENTICATION AT AN ATM OR KIOSK JAMES, GREGORY MARK 10d overdue
18375241 AUTHENTICATION PROVIDER SELECTION XIAO, ZESHENG 1d overdue
17733183 PERSONAL IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION VERIFICATION FOR DECENTRALIZED NETWORK SERVICES AUSTIN, JAMIE H 5d
18375183 CROSS-CHANNEL AUTHENTICATION VIA A REMOTE TELLER SIDDIQI, MOHAMMAD A 28d
18216687 COMMUNICATION WITH A BANK TELLER MILLER, JAMES H 56d
18375233 AUTHENTICATION PROVIDER ELIGIBILITY LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D 83d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2493 2
3627 1
3698 1
3692 1
3693 1
3624 1
3694 1
3625 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18400959 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL SIGNATURE OF IMAGE-BASED CHECK DEPOSITS AND REAL-TIME REVIEW THEREOF LUDWIG, PETER L 3627 §101 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2023
18375233 AUTHENTICATION PROVIDER ELIGIBILITY LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D 2493 §103 Final Rejection 83d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18375183 CROSS-CHANNEL AUTHENTICATION VIA A REMOTE TELLER SIDDIQI, MOHAMMAD A 2493 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18375241 AUTHENTICATION PROVIDER SELECTION XIAO, ZESHENG 3698 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18375176 CROSS-CHANNEL AUTHENTICATION AT AN ATM OR KIOSK JAMES, GREGORY MARK 3692 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18217178 METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A REMOTE COMMUNICATION SESSION KWONG, CHO YIU 3693 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Jun 30, 2023
18217217 CUSTOMER VALUE FORECASTING HO, THOMAS Y 3624 §101 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
18216687 COMMUNICATION WITH A BANK TELLER MILLER, JAMES H 3694 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Jun 30, 2023
17733183 PERSONAL IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION VERIFICATION FOR DECENTRALIZED NETWORK SERVICES AUSTIN, JAMIE H 3625 §112 Final Rejection 5d Pending Apr 29, 2022

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