Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
12 pending office actions • 10 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 53 patents granted in the last 365 days
Express Scripts Strategic Development Inc. has 13 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters are distributed among 12 distinct examiners and 11 distinct art units, indicating that prosecution is spread across multiple examination assignments rather than concentrated in one unit.
KUMAR, RAKESH is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel may benefit from tracking examiner-specific practice while maintaining coordination across the broader set of assigned examiners and art units.
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 | 2 (17%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (17%) |
| §103 only | 2 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (42%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUMAR, RAKESH | 2 | 57.2% | +28.2% |
| SHANMUGASUNDARAM, KANNAN | 1 | 72.4% | +36.0% |
| RONI, SYED A | 1 | 82.1% | +22.2% |
| NAJARIAN, LENA | 1 | 38.9% | +38.9% |
| AGHARAHIMI, FARHAD | 1 | 70.5% | +14.3% |
| SMALLEY, JAMES N | 1 | 70.7% | -9.8% |
| MILLER, WILLIAM L | 1 | 79.0% | +14.9% |
| KIM, DAVID | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS | 1 | 49.0% | +49.0% |
| FURTADO, WINSTON RAHUL | 1 | 18.9% | +22.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18423903 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATIC AUTHORIZATION USING A MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM | KIM, DAVID | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18808189 | AUTOMATED POPULATION DEVELOPMENT FOR SEARCH QUERIES | AGHARAHIMI, FARHAD | 8d overdue |
| 18537901 | MULTI-PLATFORM PRESCRIPTION DRUG CLAIM ADJUDICATION | MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS | 8d |
| 18521251 | HOPPER FOR A PHARMACEUTICAL COUNTER | KUMAR, RAKESH | 9d |
| 18621424 | PACKAGE LOCKER FOR PACKAGES CARRIED BY UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES | MILLER, WILLIAM L | 15d |
| 18541631 | SMART PILL DISPENSER | KUMAR, RAKESH | 28d |
| 18986394 | NAVIGATING HISTORICAL HEALTHCARE INFORMATION | NAJARIAN, LENA | 71d |
| 19092384 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL | RONI, SYED A | — |
| 18764816 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ENGAGING A PRESS-IN BOTTLE ADAPTER FROM A BOTTLE | SMALLEY, JAMES N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18808189 | AUTOMATED POPULATION DEVELOPMENT FOR SEARCH QUERIES | AGHARAHIMI, FARHAD | 8d overdue |
| 18537901 | MULTI-PLATFORM PRESCRIPTION DRUG CLAIM ADJUDICATION | MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS | 8d |
| 18521251 | HOPPER FOR A PHARMACEUTICAL COUNTER | KUMAR, RAKESH | 9d |
| 18621424 | PACKAGE LOCKER FOR PACKAGES CARRIED BY UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES | MILLER, WILLIAM L | 15d |
| 18541631 | SMART PILL DISPENSER | KUMAR, RAKESH | 28d |
| 18986394 | NAVIGATING HISTORICAL HEALTHCARE INFORMATION | NAJARIAN, LENA | 71d |
| 19226277 | APPLICATION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MAINTAINING PRODUCTION AND NON-PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS USING A SEGREGATED SCHEMA | SHANMUGASUNDARAM, KANNAN | — |
| 19092384 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL | RONI, SYED A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3687 | 2 |
| 3651 | 2 |
| 2168 | 1 |
| 2432 | 1 |
| 2161 | 1 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| 3677 | 1 |
| 2141 | 1 |
| 3682 | 1 |
| 2632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19226277 | APPLICATION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MAINTAINING PRODUCTION AND NON-PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS USING A SEGREGATED SCHEMA | SHANMUGASUNDARAM, KANNAN | 2168 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19092384 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL | RONI, SYED A | 2432 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 18986394 | NAVIGATING HISTORICAL HEALTHCARE INFORMATION | NAJARIAN, LENA | 3687 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18808189 | AUTOMATED POPULATION DEVELOPMENT FOR SEARCH QUERIES | AGHARAHIMI, FARHAD | 2161 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18764816 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ENGAGING A PRESS-IN BOTTLE ADAPTER FROM A BOTTLE | SMALLEY, JAMES N | 3733 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18621424 | PACKAGE LOCKER FOR PACKAGES CARRIED BY UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES | MILLER, WILLIAM L | 3677 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18423903 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATIC AUTHORIZATION USING A MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM | KIM, DAVID | 2141 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18541631 | SMART PILL DISPENSER | KUMAR, RAKESH | 3651 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18537901 | MULTI-PLATFORM PRESCRIPTION DRUG CLAIM ADJUDICATION | MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS | 3682 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18521251 | HOPPER FOR A PHARMACEUTICAL COUNTER | KUMAR, RAKESH | 3651 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18513208 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PATIENT RECORD MATCHING | FURTADO, WINSTON RAHUL | 3687 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18509491 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING DIGITAL DOCUMENTS | CADEAU, WEDNEL | 2632 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialExpress Scripts Strategic Development Inc. has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 11 examiners.
Rakesh Kumar has the most, with 2 of Express Scripts Strategic Development Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
