Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
15 pending office actions • 7 art units • 11 examiners • 2 of 15 (13%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 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. 15 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 12 (80%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (13%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALSH, DANIEL I | 5 | 64.4% | +11.9% |
| HESS, DANIEL A | 1 | 80.4% | +7.0% |
| KIM, TAE W | 1 | 55.7% | +36.4% |
| ST CYR, DANIEL | 1 | 81.3% | +13.3% |
| BROWN, VERNAL U | 1 | 69.6% | +13.9% |
| LEE, AHAM NMN | 1 | 42.9% | +66.7% |
| PILSBURY, BRADY CHARLES | 1 | 48.3% | +48.8% |
| OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 1 | 73.4% | +16.6% |
| GHEYAS, SYED I | 1 | 82.5% | +4.3% |
| STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 55.2% | +26.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19185172 | CARDS, DEVICES, EMV CONTACTS, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING CARDS, DEVICES AND EMV CONTACTS | ST CYR, DANIEL | 86d overdue |
| 15882966 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FLEXIBLE COMPONENTS FOR POWERED CARDS AND DEVICES | GHEYAS, SYED I | 49d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17215328 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING WORK AREA AND PERFORMANCE OF UV-C GENERATORS | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 141d overdue |
| 17215357 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDS-FREE OBJECT STERILIZATION | PILSBURY, BRADY CHARLES | 138d overdue |
| 12640584 | ELECTRONIC MAGNETIC RECORDED MEDIA EMULATORS IN MAGNETIC CARD DEVICES | WALSH, DANIEL I | 91d overdue |
| 19185172 | CARDS, DEVICES, EMV CONTACTS, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING CARDS, DEVICES AND EMV CONTACTS | ST CYR, DANIEL | 86d overdue |
| 12339071 | CARDS AND DEVICES WITH MAGNETIC EMULATORS AND MAGNETIC READ-HEAD DETECTORS | WALSH, DANIEL I | 72d overdue |
| 19192362 | PAYMENT CARDS AND DEVICES OPERABLE TO RECEIVE POINT-OF-SALE ACTIONS BEFORE POINT-OF-SALE AND FORWARD ACTIONS AT POINT-OF-SALE | KIM, TAE W | 60d overdue |
| 18921441 | CREDIT, SECURITY, DEBIT CARDS AND THE LIKE WITH BUTTONS | BROWN, VERNAL U | 35d overdue |
| 12339094 | CARDS AND DEVICES WITH MAGNETIC EMULATORS AND MAGNETIC READER READ-HEAD DETECTORS | WALSH, DANIEL I | 32d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2876 | 9 |
| 2686 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 2881 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19268943 | POWERED CARDS AND DEVICES DESIGNED, PROGRAMMED, AND DEPLOYED FROM A KIOSK | HESS, DANIEL A | 2876 | Other | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | AI Ready | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 19192362 | PAYMENT CARDS AND DEVICES OPERABLE TO RECEIVE POINT-OF-SALE ACTIONS BEFORE POINT-OF-SALE AND FORWARD ACTIONS AT POINT-OF-SALE | KIM, TAE W | 2876 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19185172 | CARDS, DEVICES, EMV CONTACTS, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING CARDS, DEVICES AND EMV CONTACTS | ST CYR, DANIEL | 2876 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 86d overdue | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 18921441 | CREDIT, SECURITY, DEBIT CARDS AND THE LIKE WITH BUTTONS | BROWN, VERNAL U | 2686 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18484415 | ULTRA LIGHT BIOLOGICAL SATELLITE MASK REMOVABLE FROM AND/OR MATEABLE TO MECHANICAL, CHEMICAL, AND/OR NUCLEAR HOST MASK | LEE, AHAM NMN | 1758 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | AI Ready | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 17215357 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDS-FREE OBJECT STERILIZATION | PILSBURY, BRADY CHARLES | 1799 | §103 | Final Rejection | 138d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2021 |
| 17215328 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING WORK AREA AND PERFORMANCE OF UV-C GENERATORS | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 2881 | §103 | Final Rejection | 141d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2021 |
| 15882966 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FLEXIBLE COMPONENTS FOR POWERED CARDS AND DEVICES | GHEYAS, SYED I | 2893 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Jan 29, 2018 |
| 13186455 | DYNAMIC CREDIT CARD WITH MAGNETIC STRIPE AND EMBEDDED ENCODER AND METHODS FOR USING THE SAME TO PROVIDE A COPY-PROOF CREDIT CARD | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jul 19, 2011 |
| 13158456 | PAYMENT CARDS, DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING GAME ACTIONS WITH PAYMENT DATA | HABIB, ASIFA | 2876 | §103 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Jun 13, 2011 |
| 12640584 | ELECTRONIC MAGNETIC RECORDED MEDIA EMULATORS IN MAGNETIC CARD DEVICES | WALSH, DANIEL I | 2876 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 91d overdue | Pending | Dec 17, 2009 |
| 12339071 | CARDS AND DEVICES WITH MAGNETIC EMULATORS AND MAGNETIC READ-HEAD DETECTORS | WALSH, DANIEL I | 2876 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2008 |
| 12339061 | PAYMENT CARDS AND DEVICES WITH ENHANCED MAGNETIC EMULATORS | WALSH, DANIEL I | 2876 | Other | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Dec 19, 2008 |
| 12339094 | CARDS AND DEVICES WITH MAGNETIC EMULATORS AND MAGNETIC READER READ-HEAD DETECTORS | WALSH, DANIEL I | 2876 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2008 |
| 12339066 | CARDS WITH SERIAL MAGNETIC EMULATORS | WALSH, DANIEL I | 2876 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Dec 19, 2008 |
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