Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Equifax Inc.

14 pending office actions • 9 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

4
Hard (29%)
6
Medium (43%)
4
Easy (29%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (21%)
§101 + other1 (7%)
§103 only4 (29%)
§102 only1 (7%)
§112 only1 (7%)
Double-patenting only3 (21%)
Double-patenting + other1 (7%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
6
Information Tech
43% of docket
1
Communications
7% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
21% of docket
4
Business / Other
29% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
REZA, MOHAMMAD W 1 87.6% +10.9%
THIEU, BENJAMIN M 1 84.2% +15.5%
TURCHEN, JAMES R 1 82.3% +33.6%
NGUYEN, NGA B 1 53.0% +25.4%
LE, KHOI V 1 89.8% +35.9%
STEINLE, ANDREW J 1 87.5% +19.6%
CHEUNG, HUBERT G 1 63.2% +48.0%
RINES, ROBERT D 1 38.3% +46.6%
HOPE, DARRIN 1 60.6% +19.0%
EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A 1 41.4% +39.3%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19233644 REAL-TIME SERVICING OF VERIFICATION QUERIES USING HYBRID DATA SOURCES REZA, MOHAMMAD W
19191573 DATA TRANSFORMATION TECHNIQUES FOR EVENT DATA IN MULTI-SYSTEM COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS THIEU, BENJAMIN M
19170551 SECURE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TO PREVENT FRAUDULENT RESOURCE ACCESS TURCHEN, JAMES R
19059907 HISTORICAL RISK ASSESSMENT FOR RISK MITIGATION IN ONLINE ACCESS CONTROL STEINLE, ANDREW J

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18306103 MULTI-STAGE MACHINE-LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR RISK ASSESSMENT MAHARAJ, DEVIKA S 49d overdue
19076454 TECHNIQUES FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO COMPUTING SYSTEMS BASED ON TRUST DETERMINED FROM IDENTITY ELEMENTS LE, KHOI V
18593377 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO COMPUTING SYSTEMS BASED ON DYNAMIC STATE INFORMATION RINES, ROBERT D
18396230 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL FOR CONTROLLING INTERACTION DISPUTE EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19233644 REAL-TIME SERVICING OF VERIFICATION QUERIES USING HYBRID DATA SOURCES REZA, MOHAMMAD W
19191573 DATA TRANSFORMATION TECHNIQUES FOR EVENT DATA IN MULTI-SYSTEM COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS THIEU, BENJAMIN M
19170551 SECURE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TO PREVENT FRAUDULENT RESOURCE ACCESS TURCHEN, JAMES R
19097358 AUTOMATED PATH-BASED RECOMMENDATION FOR RISK MITIGATION NGUYEN, NGA B
19076454 TECHNIQUES FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO COMPUTING SYSTEMS BASED ON TRUST DETERMINED FROM IDENTITY ELEMENTS LE, KHOI V
19059907 HISTORICAL RISK ASSESSMENT FOR RISK MITIGATION IN ONLINE ACCESS CONTROL STEINLE, ANDREW J
18700797 FRAGMENTED RECORD DETECTION BASED ON RECORDS MATCHING TECHNIQUES CHEUNG, HUBERT G
18593377 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO COMPUTING SYSTEMS BASED ON DYNAMIC STATE INFORMATION RINES, ROBERT D

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3625 2
2453 1
2152 1
2178 1
3623 1
2439 1
2123 1
2655 1
2121 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19233644 REAL-TIME SERVICING OF VERIFICATION QUERIES USING HYBRID DATA SOURCES REZA, MOHAMMAD W §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 10, 2025
19191573 DATA TRANSFORMATION TECHNIQUES FOR EVENT DATA IN MULTI-SYSTEM COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS THIEU, BENJAMIN M 2453 DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 28, 2025
19170551 SECURE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TO PREVENT FRAUDULENT RESOURCE ACCESS TURCHEN, JAMES R §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 04, 2025
19097358 AUTOMATED PATH-BASED RECOMMENDATION FOR RISK MITIGATION NGUYEN, NGA B 3625 DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 01, 2025
19076454 TECHNIQUES FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO COMPUTING SYSTEMS BASED ON TRUST DETERMINED FROM IDENTITY ELEMENTS LE, KHOI V §101 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 11, 2025
19059907 HISTORICAL RISK ASSESSMENT FOR RISK MITIGATION IN ONLINE ACCESS CONTROL STEINLE, ANDREW J DP Non-Final OA Pending Feb 21, 2025
18700797 FRAGMENTED RECORD DETECTION BASED ON RECORDS MATCHING TECHNIQUES CHEUNG, HUBERT G 2152 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 12, 2024
18593377 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO COMPUTING SYSTEMS BASED ON DYNAMIC STATE INFORMATION RINES, ROBERT D 3625 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 01, 2024
18294330 CONFIGURATION OF USER INTERFACE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT VISUALIZATION HOPE, DARRIN 2178 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 01, 2024
18396230 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL FOR CONTROLLING INTERACTION DISPUTE EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A 3623 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 26, 2023
18365781 SIMILARITY HASHING FOR ACCESS CONTROL SKWIERAWSKI, PAUL J 2439 §102 Final Rejection Pending Aug 04, 2023
18306103 MULTI-STAGE MACHINE-LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR RISK ASSESSMENT MAHARAJ, DEVIKA S 2123 §101 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Apr 24, 2023
18194982 APPLYING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) TECHNIQUES TO TIME SERIES DATA TO DERIVE ATTRIBUTES FOR USE WITH A MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 2655 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Apr 03, 2023
18006384 MACHINE-LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR FACTOR-LEVEL MONOTONIC NEURAL NETWORKS VASQUEZ, MARKUS A 2121 §112 Final Rejection 161d overdue Pending Jan 20, 2023

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