Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
17 pending office actions • 11 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Equifax Inc. is currently managing 18 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are spread across 12 distinct art units, reflecting the diverse applications of their data and software solutions. The portfolio is highly decentralized, with 18 distinct examiners assigned to the 18 pending office actions, which requires a highly individualized approach to each application.
Matthew Cobb is the busiest examiner for Equifax, though he currently manages only 1 pending office action. This confirms the total lack of examiner concentration across the 18 pending office actions. The distribution across 12 distinct art units further highlights the broad technical scope of the company's software, requiring specialized legal expertise for each of the distinct examiners involved to ensure that every unique data or software innovation is properly protected across the USPTO.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 | 1 (6%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (12%) |
| §103 only | 7 (41%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (18%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (6%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COBB, MATTHEW | 1 | 72.9% | +35.2% |
| REZA, MOHAMMAD W | 1 | 87.5% | +11.2% |
| THIEU, BENJAMIN M | 1 | 84.3% | +15.3% |
| PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J | 1 | 80.2% | +17.3% |
| NGUYEN, NGA B | 1 | 53.0% | +25.2% |
| STEINLE, ANDREW J | 1 | 87.6% | +19.4% |
| TOKUTA, SHEAN S | 1 | 79.7% | +16.2% |
| HAN, BYUNGKWON | 1 | 33.3% | +62.5% |
| TONG, JUSTIN CHE-CHUN | 1 | 45.5% | +32.7% |
| CHEUNG, HUBERT G | 1 | 63.4% | +47.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 | — |
| 19059907 | HISTORICAL RISK ASSESSMENT FOR RISK MITIGATION IN ONLINE ACCESS CONTROL | STEINLE, ANDREW J | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17455015 | BAYESIAN MODELING FOR RISK ASSESSMENT BASED ON INTEGRATING INFORMATION FROM DYNAMIC DATA SOURCES | HADDAD, MAJD MAHER | 26d |
| 19301049 | CONSOLIDATION OF DATA SOURCES FOR EXPEDITED VALIDATION OF RISK ASSESSMENT DATA | COBB, MATTHEW | — |
| 19175584 | TECHNIQUES FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO COMPUTING SYSTEMS BASED ON A RISK SCORE | PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18719076 | EXPLAINABLE MACHINE LEARNING BASED ON WAVELET ANALYSIS | HAN, BYUNGKWON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18644810 | SECURE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TO PREVENT RESOURCE ABUSE | TONG, JUSTIN CHE-CHUN | 8d |
| 19301049 | CONSOLIDATION OF DATA SOURCES FOR EXPEDITED VALIDATION OF RISK ASSESSMENT DATA | COBB, MATTHEW | — |
| 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 | — |
| 19175584 | TECHNIQUES FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO COMPUTING SYSTEMS BASED ON A RISK SCORE | PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J | — |
| 19097358 | AUTOMATED PATH-BASED RECOMMENDATION FOR RISK MITIGATION | NGUYEN, NGA B | — |
| 19059907 | HISTORICAL RISK ASSESSMENT FOR RISK MITIGATION IN ONLINE ACCESS CONTROL | STEINLE, ANDREW J | — |
| 18950422 | DATA VALIDATION TECHNIQUES FOR SENSITIVE DATA MIGRATION ACROSS MULTIPLE PLATFORMS | TOKUTA, SHEAN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2453 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 2196 | 1 |
| 2152 | 1 |
| 2439 | 1 |
| 2194 | 1 |
| 2144 | 1 |
| 2655 | 1 |
| 2121 | 1 |
| 2147 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19301049 | CONSOLIDATION OF DATA SOURCES FOR EXPEDITED VALIDATION OF RISK ASSESSMENT DATA | COBB, MATTHEW | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19233644 | REAL-TIME SERVICING OF VERIFICATION QUERIES USING HYBRID DATA SOURCES | REZA, MOHAMMAD W | — | §103Other | 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 |
| 19175584 | TECHNIQUES FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO COMPUTING SYSTEMS BASED ON A RISK SCORE | PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19097358 | AUTOMATED PATH-BASED RECOMMENDATION FOR RISK MITIGATION | NGUYEN, NGA B | 3625 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19059907 | HISTORICAL RISK ASSESSMENT FOR RISK MITIGATION IN ONLINE ACCESS CONTROL | STEINLE, ANDREW J | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18950422 | DATA VALIDATION TECHNIQUES FOR SENSITIVE DATA MIGRATION ACROSS MULTIPLE PLATFORMS | TOKUTA, SHEAN S | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18719076 | EXPLAINABLE MACHINE LEARNING BASED ON WAVELET ANALYSIS | HAN, BYUNGKWON | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18644810 | SECURE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TO PREVENT RESOURCE ABUSE | TONG, JUSTIN CHE-CHUN | 2196 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18700797 | FRAGMENTED RECORD DETECTION BASED ON RECORDS MATCHING TECHNIQUES | CHEUNG, HUBERT G | 2152 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18365781 | SIMILARITY HASHING FOR ACCESS CONTROL | SKWIERAWSKI, PAUL J | 2439 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18348970 | TECHNIQUES FOR MITIGATING BACK PRESSURE, AUTO-SCALING THROUGHPUT, AND CONCURRENCY SCALING IN LARGE-SCALE AUTOMATED EVENT-DRIVEN DATA PIPELINES | ANYA, CHARLES E | 2194 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
| 18252660 | EXPLAINABLE MACHINE-LEARNING MODELING USING WAVELET PREDICTOR VARIABLE DATA | WONG, WILLIAM | 2144 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | May 11, 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 | Non-Final OA | 161d overdue | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
| 17645517 | MACHINE-LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR TIME-DELAY NEURAL NETWORKS | LEY, SALLY THI | 2147 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Dec 22, 2021 |
| 17455015 | BAYESIAN MODELING FOR RISK ASSESSMENT BASED ON INTEGRATING INFORMATION FROM DYNAMIC DATA SOURCES | HADDAD, MAJD MAHER | 2125 | §101 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Nov 15, 2021 |
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