Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
21 pending office actions • 17 art units • 21 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days
DocuSign Inc. has 22 pending office actions in Computing & Software. The matters involve 21 distinct examiners and 17 distinct art units, showing broad examiner coverage and some repeated activity within technical units.
HASTY, NICHOLAS is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The limited concentration makes individual examiner review important, while art-unit grouping can help identify related prosecution issues across the broader docket.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 only | 4 (19%) |
| §101 + other | 7 (33%) |
| §103 only | 8 (38%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (5%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, DUAN | 1 | 61.2% | +18.9% |
| NGUYEN, CAM LINH T | 1 | 83.9% | +13.4% |
| LE, HUNG D | 1 | 90.1% | +6.4% |
| BROWN, LUIS A | 1 | 46.3% | +31.1% |
| ALLEN, NICHOLAS E | 1 | 75.6% | +14.6% |
| HOANG, HAU HAI | 1 | 78.4% | +13.4% |
| SKHOUN, HICHAM | 1 | 77.1% | +5.5% |
| JARRETT, SCOTT L | 1 | 51.8% | +46.6% |
| SHAAWAT, MAYASA A. | 1 | 87.7% | +21.4% |
| ANDERSON, FOLASHADE | 1 | 35.3% | +37.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19194434 | MACHINE LEARNED MODEL FOR CONTRACT GENERATION IN A DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | LE, HUNG D | 39d |
| 18961844 | CONTENT BASED DOCUMENT ACCESS | SHAAWAT, MAYASA A. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17895427 | USING MACHINE LEARNING TO IDENTIFY LEGAL OBLIGATIONS IN A DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 139d overdue |
| 18129194 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM TO MANAGE A DOCUMENT COLLECTION | HAN, BYUNGKWON | 31d overdue |
| 19093083 | AGREEMENT DOCUMENT EXECUTION BASED ON DOCUMENT MODEL IN A DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | BROWN, LUIS A | 18d overdue |
| 19418458 | WEB-BASED WALLET AUTHENTICATION | ZHANG, DUAN | — |
| 19253439 | DOCUMENT CONTAINER WITH CANDIDATE DOCUMENTS | NGUYEN, CAM LINH T | — |
| 19042984 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A HYBRID CONTRACT EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT | ALLEN, NICHOLAS E | — |
| 19040064 | AUTOMATIC REVISIONS TO DOCUMENT CLAUSES BASED ON CLAUSE TYPE | HOANG, HAU HAI | — |
| 18964196 | MANAGING ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND GOVERNANCE (ESG) CLAUSES IN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS | JARRETT, SCOTT L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19093083 | AGREEMENT DOCUMENT EXECUTION BASED ON DOCUMENT MODEL IN A DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | BROWN, LUIS A | 18d overdue |
| 19418458 | WEB-BASED WALLET AUTHENTICATION | ZHANG, DUAN | — |
| 19253439 | DOCUMENT CONTAINER WITH CANDIDATE DOCUMENTS | NGUYEN, CAM LINH T | — |
| 19042984 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A HYBRID CONTRACT EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT | ALLEN, NICHOLAS E | — |
| 19040064 | AUTOMATIC REVISIONS TO DOCUMENT CLAUSES BASED ON CLAUSE TYPE | HOANG, HAU HAI | — |
| 18964196 | MANAGING ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND GOVERNANCE (ESG) CLAUSES IN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS | JARRETT, SCOTT L | — |
| 18961844 | CONTENT BASED DOCUMENT ACCESS | SHAAWAT, MAYASA A. | — |
| 18622635 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT OBLIGATION MONITORING | ANDERSON, FOLASHADE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2161 | 2 |
| 2154 | 2 |
| 2172 | 2 |
| 3629 | 2 |
| 3699 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| 2164 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 2433 | 1 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19418458 | WEB-BASED WALLET AUTHENTICATION | ZHANG, DUAN | 3699 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2025 |
| 19253439 | DOCUMENT CONTAINER WITH CANDIDATE DOCUMENTS | NGUYEN, CAM LINH T | 2161 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19194434 | MACHINE LEARNED MODEL FOR CONTRACT GENERATION IN A DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | LE, HUNG D | 2161 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19093083 | AGREEMENT DOCUMENT EXECUTION BASED ON DOCUMENT MODEL IN A DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | BROWN, LUIS A | 3626 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19042984 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A HYBRID CONTRACT EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT | ALLEN, NICHOLAS E | 2154 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19040064 | AUTOMATIC REVISIONS TO DOCUMENT CLAUSES BASED ON CLAUSE TYPE | HOANG, HAU HAI | 2154 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 19037654 | TRIGGERING EXECUTION OF MACHINE LEARNING BASED PREDICTION OF DOCUMENT METADATA | SKHOUN, HICHAM | 2164 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18964196 | MANAGING ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND GOVERNANCE (ESG) CLAUSES IN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS | JARRETT, SCOTT L | 3625 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18961844 | CONTENT BASED DOCUMENT ACCESS | SHAAWAT, MAYASA A. | 2433 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18622635 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT OBLIGATION MONITORING | ANDERSON, FOLASHADE | 3623 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18420219 | DOCUMENT STRUCTURE EXTRACTION | ORR, HENRY W | 2172 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18420445 | DOCUMENT GENERATION RULES | FIBBI, CHRISTOPHER J | 2174 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18525347 | FEATURE ACCESS CONTROL IN A DIGITAL TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT PLATFORM | XIA, XUYANG | 2143 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18512524 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMANCE MONITORING | LIE, ANGELA M | 3992 | §112 | Final Rejection | 87d overdue | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18194345 | COMPARISON OF NAMES | LIN, ALLEN S | 2153 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18129194 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM TO MANAGE A DOCUMENT COLLECTION | HAN, BYUNGKWON | 2121 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18175915 | AGREEMENT ORCHESTRATION | HASTY, NICHOLAS | 2141 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 18097009 | MACHINE LEARNING BASED PREDICTION OF DOCUMENT METADATA | NGUYEN, CHAU T | 2145 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 17895427 | USING MACHINE LEARNING TO IDENTIFY LEGAL OBLIGATIONS IN A DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 3629 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 139d overdue | Pending | Aug 25, 2022 |
| 17727710 | AUTOMATIC TEMPLATE GENERATION WITH INBUILT TEMPLATE LOGIC INTERFACE | FABER, DAVID | 2172 | §103 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Apr 23, 2022 |
| 17586783 | DOCUMENT ANALYZER FOR RISK ASSESSMENT | LAKHANI, ANDREW C | 3629 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialDocuSign Inc. has 21 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 17 art units and 21 examiners.
Duan Zhang has the most, with 1 of DocuSign Inc.'s pending office actions.
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