Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Equifax Inc.

13 pending office actions • 12 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
8
Due this month
1
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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.

2
Hard (15%)
10
Medium (77%)
1
Easy (8%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (15%)
§103 only10 (77%)
§112 only1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
11
Information Tech
85% of docket
1
Communications
8% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
8% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TONG, JUSTIN CHE-CHUN 1 37.0% +38.3%
BLACK, LINH 1 50.6% +12.0%
GIULIANI, GIUSEPPI J 1 58.5% +6.4%
ANYA, CHARLES E 1 81.7% +33.3%
WONG, WILLIAM 1 30.2% +26.9%
MAHARAJ, DEVIKA S 1 53.8% +11.3%
COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 1 75.9% +15.2%
VASQUEZ, MARKUS A 1 50.0% +31.4%
MARU, MATIYAS T 1 62.2% +7.5%
BUI, TOAN D. 1 59.4% +44.1%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18348970 TECHNIQUES FOR MITIGATING BACK PRESSURE, AUTO-SCALING THROUGHPUT, AND CONCURRENCY SCALING IN LARGE-SCALE AUTOMATED EVENT-DRIVEN DATA PIPELINES ANYA, CHARLES E 12d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17455015 BAYESIAN MODELING FOR RISK ASSESSMENT BASED ON INTEGRATING INFORMATION FROM DYNAMIC DATA SOURCES HADDAD, MAJD MAHER 26d
17930970 ENTITY PROFILE FOR ACCESS CONTROL BUI, TOAN D. 54d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18006384 MACHINE-LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR FACTOR-LEVEL MONOTONIC NEURAL NETWORKS VASQUEZ, MARKUS A 161d overdue
18306103 MULTI-STAGE MACHINE-LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR RISK ASSESSMENT MAHARAJ, DEVIKA S 49d overdue
18194982 APPLYING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) TECHNIQUES TO TIME SERIES DATA TO DERIVE ATTRIBUTES FOR USE WITH A MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 9d overdue
18644810 SECURE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TO PREVENT RESOURCE ABUSE TONG, JUSTIN CHE-CHUN 8d
18348970 TECHNIQUES FOR MITIGATING BACK PRESSURE, AUTO-SCALING THROUGHPUT, AND CONCURRENCY SCALING IN LARGE-SCALE AUTOMATED EVENT-DRIVEN DATA PIPELINES ANYA, CHARLES E 12d
18252660 EXPLAINABLE MACHINE-LEARNING MODELING USING WAVELET PREDICTOR VARIABLE DATA WONG, WILLIAM 23d
18700779 RECORDS MATCHING TECHNIQUES FOR FACILITATING DATABASE SEARCH AND FRAGMENTED RECORD DETECTION BLACK, LINH 28d
17930970 ENTITY PROFILE FOR ACCESS CONTROL BUI, TOAN D. 54d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2147 2
2196 1
2163 1
2153 1
2194 1
2144 1
2123 1
2655 1
2121 1
2148 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18644810 SECURE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TO PREVENT RESOURCE ABUSE TONG, JUSTIN CHE-CHUN 2196 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Apr 24, 2024
18700779 RECORDS MATCHING TECHNIQUES FOR FACILITATING DATABASE SEARCH AND FRAGMENTED RECORD DETECTION BLACK, LINH 2163 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Apr 12, 2024
18700775 RECORDS MATCHING TECHNIQUES FOR FACILITATING DATABASE SEARCH AND FRAGMENTED RECORD DETECTION GIULIANI, GIUSEPPI J 2153 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2024
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 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jul 07, 2023
18252660 EXPLAINABLE MACHINE-LEARNING MODELING USING WAVELET PREDICTOR VARIABLE DATA WONG, WILLIAM 2144 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending May 11, 2023
18306103 MULTI-STAGE MACHINE-LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR RISK ASSESSMENT MAHARAJ, DEVIKA S 2123 §112 Non-Final OA 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 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Apr 03, 2023
18006384 MACHINE-LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR FACTOR-LEVEL MONOTONIC NEURAL NETWORKS VASQUEZ, MARKUS A 2121 §103 Non-Final OA 161d overdue Pending Jan 20, 2023
18147967 TECHNIQUES FOR EVALUATING AN EFFECT OF CHANGES TO MACHINE LEARNING MODELS MARU, MATIYAS T 2148 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Dec 29, 2022
17930970 ENTITY PROFILE FOR ACCESS CONTROL BUI, TOAN D. 3693 §101 Final Rejection 54d Pending Sep 09, 2022
17645517 MACHINE-LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR TIME-DELAY NEURAL NETWORKS LEY, SALLY THI 2147 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Dec 22, 2021
17645744 UNIFIED EXPLAINABLE MACHINE LEARNING FOR SEGMENTED RISK ASSESSMENT ROHD, BENJAMIN MATTHEW 2147 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Dec 22, 2021
17455015 BAYESIAN MODELING FOR RISK ASSESSMENT BASED ON INTEGRATING INFORMATION FROM DYNAMIC DATA SOURCES HADDAD, MAJD MAHER 2125 §101 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Nov 15, 2021

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