Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Expensify Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, so the recorded assignments are separate across both dimensions.
CHEIN, ALLEN C is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A matter-specific approach is appropriate, with portfolio review focused on consistent terminology and claim strategy rather than on a shared examiner or art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R | 1 | 76.4% | +21.3% |
| CHEIN, ALLEN C | 1 | 45.1% | +40.5% |
| PATEL, AMIT HEMANTKUMAR | 1 | 54.1% | +7.3% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19031868 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING TRANSACTION RECORDS FOR USERS | PATEL, AMIT HEMANTKUMAR | 58d overdue |
| 19031887 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING AND PRESENTING FINANCIAL INFORMATION | CHEIN, ALLEN C | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19031873 | CHAT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R | — |
| 19031887 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING AND PRESENTING FINANCIAL INFORMATION | CHEIN, ALLEN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2447 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| 3696 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19031873 | CHAT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | SWEARINGEN, JEFFREY R | 2447 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 19031887 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING AND PRESENTING FINANCIAL INFORMATION | CHEIN, ALLEN C | 3627 | §101§102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 19031868 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING TRANSACTION RECORDS FOR USERS | PATEL, AMIT HEMANTKUMAR | 3696 | §101 | Final Rejection | 58d overdue | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialExpensify Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Jeffrey R Swearingen has the most, with 1 of Expensify Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
