Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fanduel Limited maintains 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units, showing a relatively narrow focus for the current pending portfolio. The prosecution is handled by 3 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is under the review of a different individual, which prevents any single examiner from dominating the company's active cases.
MCCULLOCH JR, WILLIAM H is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Because there are 3 distinct examiners for the pending office actions, no single examiner holds multiple active cases. The 2 distinct art units suggest that multiple examiners are likely operating within the same technical group or closely related groups. For a portfolio of this size, the diversity of examiners relative to the number of actions ensures that prosecution outcomes are not dependent on the tendencies of a single person. Practitioners should monitor the art units for consistent application of examination standards across the 3 pending office actions.
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 (67%) |
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIAN, MUHAMMAD U | 1 | 67.1% | +22.4% |
| MCCULLOCH JR, WILLIAM H | 1 | 54.3% | +33.8% |
| WILLIAMS, ROSS A | 1 | 61.5% | +17.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19410174 | LOW LATENCY USER DIRECTED MARKET GENERATION | MIAN, MUHAMMAD U | — |
| 19410304 | PROPOSITION TRACKING FOR PREDEFINED AND USER-REQUESTED MARKETS | MCCULLOCH JR, WILLIAM H | — |
| 18947369 | DYNAMIC WAGER DELAYS FOR LIVE CONTEST BETTING | WILLIAMS, ROSS A | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19410174 | LOW LATENCY USER DIRECTED MARKET GENERATION | MIAN, MUHAMMAD U | — |
| 19410304 | PROPOSITION TRACKING FOR PREDEFINED AND USER-REQUESTED MARKETS | MCCULLOCH JR, WILLIAM H | — |
| 18947369 | DYNAMIC WAGER DELAYS FOR LIVE CONTEST BETTING | WILLIAMS, ROSS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2163 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19410174 | LOW LATENCY USER DIRECTED MARKET GENERATION | MIAN, MUHAMMAD U | 2163 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2025 |
| 19410304 | PROPOSITION TRACKING FOR PREDEFINED AND USER-REQUESTED MARKETS | MCCULLOCH JR, WILLIAM H | 3715 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2025 |
| 18947369 | DYNAMIC WAGER DELAYS FOR LIVE CONTEST BETTING | WILLIAMS, ROSS A | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
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