Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
15 pending office actions • 6 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Flexa Inc. maintains 15 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are spread across 6 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse range of technical subject matter within the company's intellectual property strategy. With 10 distinct examiners involved in these cases, the company faces a relatively broad array of individual perspectives during the examination process.
GETACHEW, WODAJO serves as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 3 pending office actions. This specific examiner's workload accounts for 3 of the 15 total actions, suggesting that their individual examination style has a concentrated impact on the portfolio's progress. Practitioners should note that while 10 distinct examiners are active, the concentration of actions with one individual makes that relationship particularly significant.
The presence of 6 distinct art units for these pending actions indicates that the portfolio is not confined to a single niche but spans multiple sub-sectors of Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. Because the examiners are distributed across these units, the prosecution team must navigate various internal policies and standards. Managing these actions under these conditions requires a coordinated approach to maintain consistency across the different art units involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 5 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 5 (33%) |
| §103 only | 3 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (13%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GETACHEW, WODAJO | 3 | 40.8% | +38.6% |
| HUANG, JAY | 3 | 53.0% | +20.7% |
| DANG, CHRISTINE | 2 | 50.0% | +51.1% |
| SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 1 | 26.3% | +14.2% |
| MILEF, ELDA G | 1 | 41.1% | +8.2% |
| XIAO, ZESHENG | 1 | 43.4% | +32.2% |
| KAZIMI, HANI M | 1 | 48.5% | +19.4% |
| HAYES, JOHN W | 1 | 20.0% | +5.1% |
| ANDREI, RADU | 1 | 36.3% | +20.0% |
| YU, ARIEL J | 1 | 40.3% | +27.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17449429 | BI-DIRECTIONAL DIGITAL ASSET POINT OF SALE COMPUTING DEVICE | YU, ARIEL J | 97d overdue |
| 17390878 | Real-time Cryptocurrency Backed Payment with Code Initiation | HUANG, JAY | 80d overdue |
| 18051810 | SMART CONTRACT DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT UNIT | ANDREI, RADU | 55d |
| 19539394 | SECURE AND TRUSTED CONVEYANCE FROM USER COMPUTING DEVICE TO MERCHANT COMPUTING ENTITY | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | — |
| 19244042 | STAKE POOL OF A SYSTEM DIGITAL ASSET-BACKED DATA INTERACTION SYSTEM | MILEF, ELDA G | — |
| 18754532 | DIGITAL ASSET-BASED INTERACTION VIA AN INTERACTION COMPUTING ENTITY | GETACHEW, WODAJO | — |
| 18502152 | DIGITAL ASSET-BASED INTERACTION SYSTEM WITH ONE OR MORE STAKED DISTRIBUTED LEDGER TECHNOLOGY (DLT) NETWORKS | KAZIMI, HANI M | — |
| 18060402 | STAKE POOL OF A SYSTEM DIGITAL ASSET-BACKED DATA INTERACTION SYSTEM | HAYES, JOHN W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17449429 | BI-DIRECTIONAL DIGITAL ASSET POINT OF SALE COMPUTING DEVICE | YU, ARIEL J | 97d overdue |
| 17390878 | Real-time Cryptocurrency Backed Payment with Code Initiation | HUANG, JAY | 80d overdue |
| 18051810 | SMART CONTRACT DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT UNIT | ANDREI, RADU | 55d |
| 19539394 | SECURE AND TRUSTED CONVEYANCE FROM USER COMPUTING DEVICE TO MERCHANT COMPUTING ENTITY | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | — |
| 18754532 | DIGITAL ASSET-BASED INTERACTION VIA AN INTERACTION COMPUTING ENTITY | GETACHEW, WODAJO | — |
| 18650712 | MULTI-DIGITAL ASSET SOURCE DIGITAL ASSET-BASED INTERACTION FACILITATION VIA DESTINATION COMPUTING ENTITY-PRESENTED USER INTERFACE | XIAO, ZESHENG | — |
| 18502152 | DIGITAL ASSET-BASED INTERACTION SYSTEM WITH ONE OR MORE STAKED DISTRIBUTED LEDGER TECHNOLOGY (DLT) NETWORKS | KAZIMI, HANI M | — |
| 18051346 | SMART CODE MODULE OF A DIGITAL ASSET-BASED INTERACTION SYSTEM | DANG, CHRISTINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3697 | 5 |
| 3698 | 3 |
| 3691 | 2 |
| 3600 | 2 |
| 3619 | 2 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19539394 | SECURE AND TRUSTED CONVEYANCE FROM USER COMPUTING DEVICE TO MERCHANT COMPUTING ENTITY | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 3697 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2026 |
| 19244042 | STAKE POOL OF A SYSTEM DIGITAL ASSET-BACKED DATA INTERACTION SYSTEM | MILEF, ELDA G | 3691 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 18754532 | DIGITAL ASSET-BASED INTERACTION VIA AN INTERACTION COMPUTING ENTITY | GETACHEW, WODAJO | 3697 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18650712 | MULTI-DIGITAL ASSET SOURCE DIGITAL ASSET-BASED INTERACTION FACILITATION VIA DESTINATION COMPUTING ENTITY-PRESENTED USER INTERFACE | XIAO, ZESHENG | 3698 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18502152 | DIGITAL ASSET-BASED INTERACTION SYSTEM WITH ONE OR MORE STAKED DISTRIBUTED LEDGER TECHNOLOGY (DLT) NETWORKS | KAZIMI, HANI M | 3691 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18060402 | STAKE POOL OF A SYSTEM DIGITAL ASSET-BACKED DATA INTERACTION SYSTEM | HAYES, JOHN W | 3600 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
| 18051810 | SMART CONTRACT DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT UNIT | ANDREI, RADU | 3697 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Nov 01, 2022 |
| 18051346 | SMART CODE MODULE OF A DIGITAL ASSET-BASED INTERACTION SYSTEM | DANG, CHRISTINE | 3698 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2022 |
| 18051193 | ISSUING ENTITY ACCOUNT-BASED DIGITAL ASSETS OF A DIGITAL ASSET-BASED INTERACTION SYSTEM | DANG, CHRISTINE | 3698 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2022 |
| 17654367 | SYSTEM DIGITAL ASSET-BACKED DATA INTERACTION SYSTEM | HUANG, JAY | 3600 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2022 |
| 17449567 | CRYPTOCURRENCY-BASED PAYMENT BACKING ACCOUNT DEVICE OF A CRYPTOCURRENCY PAYMENT SYSTEM | GETACHEW, WODAJO | 3697 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2021 |
| 17449429 | BI-DIRECTIONAL DIGITAL ASSET POINT OF SALE COMPUTING DEVICE | YU, ARIEL J | 3627 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 97d overdue | Pending | Sep 29, 2021 |
| 17390878 | Real-time Cryptocurrency Backed Payment with Code Initiation | HUANG, JAY | 3619 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 80d overdue | Pending | Jul 31, 2021 |
| 17364366 | Collateral Cryptocurrency Backed Payment | HUANG, JAY | 3619 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2021 |
| 16867764 | CRYPTOCURRENCY PAYMENT SYSTEM | GETACHEW, WODAJO | 3697 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 06, 2020 |
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