Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
12 pending office actions • 11 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Early Warning Services LLC currently manages 12 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This portfolio demonstrates a high degree of examiner diversification, as the actions are distributed among 11 distinct examiners. Such a spread suggests that prosecution outcomes are likely to be influenced by a wide variety of individual examiner preferences rather than a centralized examination trend.
The organizational breadth of the portfolio is further evidenced by its presence across 11 distinct art units. This matches the examiner count, indicating that almost every pending matter is being handled in a unique administrative environment. For practitioners, this means that strategies successful in a specific art unit may have limited applicability across the rest of the portfolio.
HASBROUCK, MERRITT J serves as the busiest examiner for this company, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. While this represents the highest concentration of work with a single official, it remains a small fraction of the 12 total actions. The reliance on the distinct examiners across the art units highlights a decentralized prosecution landscape where individual examiner interactions are the primary driver of patent acquisition.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 5 (42%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (33%) |
| §103 only | 3 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HASBROUCK, MERRITT J | 2 | 9.8% | +7.0% |
| GAW, MARK H | 1 | 49.8% | +59.7% |
| HARRIS, CHRISTOPHER C | 1 | 76.7% | +25.3% |
| ANDERSON, SCOTT C | 1 | 58.6% | +31.6% |
| IDIAKE, VINCENT I | 1 | 71.5% | +18.6% |
| CHOI, YUE YIN | 1 | 59.5% | +8.5% |
| CASTILLO-TORRES, KEISHA Y | 1 | 75.0% | +31.9% |
| DADA, BEEMNET W | 1 | 84.7% | +18.2% |
| SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D | 1 | 36.1% | +44.6% |
| BUNKER, WILLIAM B | 1 | 80.2% | +94.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18100979 | PUSH NOTIFICATIONS AND ADDRESS RISKING | BUNKER, WILLIAM B | 203d overdue |
| 18585846 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DETERMINING COMPROMISED IDENTITY INFORMATION | DADA, BEEMNET W | 4d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18976889 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE HEALTH OF SOCIAL TOKENS | IDIAKE, VINCENT I | 72d overdue |
| 18779320 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMPLIFYING FRAUD DETECTION IN PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS FROM TRUSTED ACCOUNTS | CHOI, YUE YIN | 35d overdue |
| 19288434 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LINKING A DIGITAL WALLET WITHIN A SEPARATE PAYMENT SERVICE | GAW, MARK H | — |
| 19256624 | PRIVACY POLICY RATING SYSTEM | HARRIS, CHRISTOPHER C | — |
| 19220269 | DIGITAL IDENTITY LOCK | ANDERSON, SCOTT C | — |
| 18203550 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING REAL-TIME ONLINE DONATIONS | SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D | — |
| 17824878 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURE ELECTRONIC TRANSFERS | HASBROUCK, MERRITT J | — |
| 17191358 | SECURE ELECTRONIC BILLING WITH REAL-TIME PAYMENT SETTLEMENT | HASBROUCK, MERRITT J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18100979 | PUSH NOTIFICATIONS AND ADDRESS RISKING | BUNKER, WILLIAM B | 203d overdue |
| 18976889 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE HEALTH OF SOCIAL TOKENS | IDIAKE, VINCENT I | 72d overdue |
| 18587369 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT SENTIMENT ANALYSIS | CASTILLO-TORRES, KEISHA Y | 30d overdue |
| 18585846 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DETERMINING COMPROMISED IDENTITY INFORMATION | DADA, BEEMNET W | 4d overdue |
| 19288434 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LINKING A DIGITAL WALLET WITHIN A SEPARATE PAYMENT SERVICE | GAW, MARK H | — |
| 19256624 | PRIVACY POLICY RATING SYSTEM | HARRIS, CHRISTOPHER C | — |
| 19220269 | DIGITAL IDENTITY LOCK | ANDERSON, SCOTT C | — |
| 18203550 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING REAL-TIME ONLINE DONATIONS | SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3695 | 2 |
| 3693 | 1 |
| 2431 | 1 |
| 3694 | 1 |
| 3698 | 1 |
| 3699 | 1 |
| 2659 | 1 |
| 2435 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| 3691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19288434 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LINKING A DIGITAL WALLET WITHIN A SEPARATE PAYMENT SERVICE | GAW, MARK H | 3693 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 19256624 | PRIVACY POLICY RATING SYSTEM | HARRIS, CHRISTOPHER C | 2431 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19220269 | DIGITAL IDENTITY LOCK | ANDERSON, SCOTT C | 3694 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 18976889 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE HEALTH OF SOCIAL TOKENS | IDIAKE, VINCENT I | 3698 | §101 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18779320 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMPLIFYING FRAUD DETECTION IN PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS FROM TRUSTED ACCOUNTS | CHOI, YUE YIN | 3699 | §101 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18587369 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT SENTIMENT ANALYSIS | CASTILLO-TORRES, KEISHA Y | 2659 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18585846 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DETERMINING COMPROMISED IDENTITY INFORMATION | DADA, BEEMNET W | 2435 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18203550 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING REAL-TIME ONLINE DONATIONS | SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D | 3626 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18100979 | PUSH NOTIFICATIONS AND ADDRESS RISKING | BUNKER, WILLIAM B | 3691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 203d overdue | Pending | Jan 24, 2023 |
| 17824878 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURE ELECTRONIC TRANSFERS | HASBROUCK, MERRITT J | 3695 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 25, 2022 |
| 17191358 | SECURE ELECTRONIC BILLING WITH REAL-TIME PAYMENT SETTLEMENT | HASBROUCK, MERRITT J | 3695 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2021 |
| 16682489 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING FRAUD IN REAL-TIME PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS | OJIAKU, CHIKAODINAKA | 3696 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2019 |
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