Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 3 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Everi Payments Inc. is currently managing 8 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating a variety of technical focuses within the company's current filings. The prosecution involves 7 distinct examiners, which means that most examiners are handling a single matter for the company.
The busiest examiner, KIM, KEVIN Y, is currently responsible for 2 pending actions. With 8 pending office actions and 7 distinct examiners, the company must manage several different examination styles and preferences. The distribution across 3 distinct art units in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector suggests that the applications may fall into different technical classifications. Practitioners should be aware of the different examination styles of KIM, KEVIN Y and the other 7 distinct examiners involved while navigating the standards of the 3 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (11%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (44%) |
| §103 only | 2 (22%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (11%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, KEVIN Y | 2 | 78.2% | +15.9% |
| WILDER, ANDREW H | 1 | 62.6% | +58.5% |
| LANEAU, RONALD | 1 | 88.2% | +9.8% |
| HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N | 1 | 81.1% | +18.5% |
| PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | 1 | 75.7% | +28.4% |
| EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | 1 | 1.9% | +1.1% |
| GARNER, WERNER G | 1 | 59.7% | +24.7% |
| ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA | 1 | 23.4% | +33.4% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19025022 | GAMING SYSTEM AND GAMING MACHINES UTILIZING TICKETS HAVING A FEATURE TRIGGER | LANEAU, RONALD | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18106573 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CENTRALIZED CASINO PATRON AND ACTIVITY TRACKING, ANALYSIS AND REPORTING | GARNER, WERNER G | 2d overdue |
| 17947433 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING INTEGRATED FINANCIAL SERVICES FUNCTIONALITY IN A CASINO ENVIRONMENT | ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA | 72d |
| 19024073 | PRE-AUTHORIZED CASINO CREDIT INSTRUMENT | HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N | — |
| 19024476 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING MONETARY VALUE GAMING TICKET REDEMPTION | PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | — |
| 18617402 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CASINO RIM CREDIT AND MARKER PROCESSING | EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18106573 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CENTRALIZED CASINO PATRON AND ACTIVITY TRACKING, ANALYSIS AND REPORTING | GARNER, WERNER G | 2d overdue |
| 17947433 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING INTEGRATED FINANCIAL SERVICES FUNCTIONALITY IN A CASINO ENVIRONMENT | ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA | 72d |
| 19024113 | CASINO CAGE CASHOUT SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED CHIP VALIDATION AND TRANSACTION RECORD GENERATION | WILDER, ANDREW H | — |
| 19024073 | PRE-AUTHORIZED CASINO CREDIT INSTRUMENT | HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N | — |
| 19024476 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING MONETARY VALUE GAMING TICKET REDEMPTION | PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | — |
| 18917839 | MODIFIED CASINO SYSTEM FACILITATING SUSPENSION OF CASINO JACKPOT PROCESSING | KIM, KEVIN Y | — |
| 18527612 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLAYER SELF-SERVICE CASINO JACKPOT PROCESSING | KIM, KEVIN Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| 3695 | 1 |
| 3692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19024113 | CASINO CAGE CASHOUT SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED CHIP VALIDATION AND TRANSACTION RECORD GENERATION | WILDER, ANDREW H | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19025022 | GAMING SYSTEM AND GAMING MACHINES UTILIZING TICKETS HAVING A FEATURE TRIGGER | LANEAU, RONALD | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19024073 | PRE-AUTHORIZED CASINO CREDIT INSTRUMENT | HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19024476 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING MONETARY VALUE GAMING TICKET REDEMPTION | PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | — | §101§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18917839 | MODIFIED CASINO SYSTEM FACILITATING SUSPENSION OF CASINO JACKPOT PROCESSING | KIM, KEVIN Y | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18617402 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CASINO RIM CREDIT AND MARKER PROCESSING | EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | 3695 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18527612 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLAYER SELF-SERVICE CASINO JACKPOT PROCESSING | KIM, KEVIN Y | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18106573 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CENTRALIZED CASINO PATRON AND ACTIVITY TRACKING, ANALYSIS AND REPORTING | GARNER, WERNER G | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Feb 07, 2023 |
| 17947433 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING INTEGRATED FINANCIAL SERVICES FUNCTIONALITY IN A CASINO ENVIRONMENT | ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA | 3692 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 72d | Pending | Sep 19, 2022 |
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