Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Digits Financial Inc. is currently active in the Computing & Software technology area with 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, CORTES, HOWARD, who is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single point of contact defines the company's current relationship with the patent office.
The portfolio's activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for the company's software filings. With only 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution strategy is centralized. The 1 pending office action is the active matter currently being navigated by the company.
Practitioners should note that the 1 busiest examiner pending action held by CORTES, HOWARD represents the entirety of the portfolio's pending workload. The reliance on 1 distinct art unit means that the company's success in this area is tied to the specific standards of that group. This 1 pending office action is the focus of the company's current patent prosecution efforts in Computing & Software.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CORTES, HOWARD | 1 | 78.5% | +14.4% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18409941 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND RENDERING A SELF-CONTAINED REPORT DATA STRUCTURE | CORTES, HOWARD | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2118 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18409941 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND RENDERING A SELF-CONTAINED REPORT DATA STRUCTURE | CORTES, HOWARD | 2118 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
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