Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Digital First Holdings LLC has 9 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 7 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical subject matter within the transportation and e-commerce sectors. The prosecution involves 9 distinct examiners, which means every one of the 9 pending office actions is being handled by a different individual. This high ratio of examiners to actions requires a strategy that can adapt to many different perspectives.
AUSTIN, JAMIE H is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since there are 9 distinct examiners for the 9 pending office actions, the company must navigate nine different sets of examiner preferences. This decentralized prosecution environment across 7 distinct art units suggests that no single individual's style will define the portfolio's success. Instead, the company must prepare for a wide range of feedback across the 7 distinct art units involved in these mechanical and e-commerce filings.
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.
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.
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 + other | 5 (56%) |
| §103 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUSTIN, JAMIE H | 1 | 24.8% | +33.2% |
| SHIH, HAOSHIAN | 1 | 69.6% | +20.4% |
| LUDWIG, PETER L | 1 | 35.1% | +22.7% |
| LESNIEWSKI, VICTOR D | 1 | 58.5% | +55.3% |
| WALTON, CHESIREE A | 1 | 31.0% | +29.0% |
| HO, THOMAS Y | 1 | 16.9% | +30.1% |
| OSMAN, RAMY M | 1 | 78.9% | -9.1% |
| MILLER, JAMES H | 1 | 40.9% | +36.5% |
| WONG, ERIC TAK WAI | 1 | 50.6% | +13.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 18758636 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY LOADING USER INTERFACE COMPONENTS | SHIH, HAOSHIAN | — |
| 18228242 | SELF-SUPERVISED CHURN PREDICTIONS | WALTON, CHESIREE A | — |
| 18217210 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A REMOTE SERVICE | OSMAN, RAMY M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 18758636 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY LOADING USER INTERFACE COMPONENTS | SHIH, HAOSHIAN | — |
| 18228242 | SELF-SUPERVISED CHURN PREDICTIONS | WALTON, CHESIREE A | — |
| 15251634 | OMNI-CHANNEL COLLABORATION INFRASTRUCTURE | WONG, ERIC TAK WAI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 2 |
| 2179 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| 2493 | 1 |
| 2457 | 1 |
| 3694 | 1 |
| 3693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19225797 | SELF-SOVEREIGN IDENTITY STRUCTURED MESSAGING FOR CROSS CHANNEL AUTHENTICATION | AUSTIN, JAMIE H | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 18217217 | CUSTOMER VALUE FORECASTING | HO, THOMAS Y | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 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 |
| 15251634 | OMNI-CHANNEL COLLABORATION INFRASTRUCTURE | WONG, ERIC TAK WAI | 3693 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2016 |
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