Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
22 pending office actions • 17 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days
DocuSign Inc. is currently managing 22 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These matters are distributed among 20 distinct examiners. This indicates that the 22 pending actions are spread widely across the examining corps, with very little consolidation of cases under individual examiners. This broad distribution suggests that the company's software innovations are being reviewed by a diverse group of examiners, each bringing their own perspective to the technical merits of the applications.
The company's prosecution activity spans 17 distinct art units. With 22 pending office actions, the company's presence in 17 art units shows that its software innovations are being reviewed by a diverse range of specialized groups. This broad distribution across 17 units reflects the varied technical aspects of the company's filings. The ratio of 22 actions to 17 art units indicates that most units are handling only one or two cases, further emphasizing the wide technical reach of the company's current patent portfolio.
NICHOLAS HASTY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 2 pending office actions. This workload of 2 actions is the maximum for any of the 20 distinct examiners. The management of 22 pending actions across 17 art units underscores the company's active engagement in the patenting process for its computing technologies. This structure requires the company to maintain a flexible and comprehensive approach to prosecution across a large number of different examiners and specialized art units.
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.
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.
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 | 3 (14%) |
| §101 + other | 8 (36%) |
| §103 only | 9 (41%) |
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HASTY, NICHOLAS | 2 | 51.7% | +32.2% |
| ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 2 | 9.5% | +15.8% |
| ZHANG, DUAN | 1 | 60.8% | +18.6% |
| LE, HUNG D | 1 | 90.1% | +6.4% |
| BROWN, LUIS A | 1 | 46.2% | +31.3% |
| MALINOWSKI, WALTER J | 1 | 69.9% | +52.1% |
| ALLEN, NICHOLAS E | 1 | 75.6% | +14.6% |
| HOANG, HAU HAI | 1 | 78.2% | +13.4% |
| SKHOUN, HICHAM | 1 | 77.1% | +5.5% |
| JARRETT, SCOTT L | 1 | 52.0% | +47.3% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19194434 | MACHINE LEARNED MODEL FOR CONTRACT GENERATION IN A DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | LE, HUNG D | 39d |
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 |
| 17829293 | PREDICTIVE TEXT FOR CONTRACT GENERATION IN A DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 22d |
| 19418458 | WEB-BASED WALLET AUTHENTICATION | ZHANG, DUAN | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17895427 | USING MACHINE LEARNING TO IDENTIFY LEGAL OBLIGATIONS IN A DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 139d overdue |
| 18175915 | AGREEMENT ORCHESTRATION | HASTY, NICHOLAS | 31d overdue |
| 19093083 | AGREEMENT DOCUMENT EXECUTION BASED ON DOCUMENT MODEL IN A DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | BROWN, LUIS A | 18d overdue |
| 17829293 | PREDICTIVE TEXT FOR CONTRACT GENERATION IN A DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 22d |
| 19418458 | WEB-BASED WALLET AUTHENTICATION | ZHANG, DUAN | — |
| 19066777 | DELEGATED SIGNING USING SENSITIVITY CLASSIFICATION | MALINOWSKI, WALTER J | — |
| 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3629 | 3 |
| 2154 | 2 |
| 2141 | 2 |
| 3699 | 1 |
| 2161 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| 2164 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 2433 | 1 |
| 2178 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 19066777 | DELEGATED SIGNING USING SENSITIVITY CLASSIFICATION | MALINOWSKI, WALTER J | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 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 |
| 18820639 | DYNAMIC SPLITTING AND MERGING OF AGENTS IN DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS | BARNES JR, CARL E | 2178 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18420219 | DOCUMENT STRUCTURE EXTRACTION | ORR, HENRY W | 2100 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18420445 | DOCUMENT GENERATION RULES | FIBBI, CHRISTOPHER J | 2174 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18512524 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMANCE MONITORING | LIE, ANGELA M | 3992 | §112 | Final Rejection | 87d overdue | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18129194 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM TO MANAGE A DOCUMENT COLLECTION | HAN, BYUNGKWON | 2121 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18194345 | COMPARISON OF NAMES | LIN, ALLEN S | 2153 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | 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 |
| 17956456 | GENERATING DOCUMENT TEMPLATES IN A DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | HASTY, NICHOLAS | 2141 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
| 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 |
| 17829293 | PREDICTIVE TEXT FOR CONTRACT GENERATION IN A DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 3629 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | May 31, 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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