Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Flexa Inc.

9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

5
Hard (56%)
4
Medium (44%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (22%)
§101 + other3 (33%)
§103 only4 (44%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
9
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DANG, CHRISTINE 2 48.9% +50.5%
SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN 1 26.6% +14.4%
MILEF, ELDA G 1 40.8% +7.8%
OUSSIR, EL MEHDI 1 49.0% +49.4%
SHARON, AYAL I 1 43.1% +28.4%
XIAO, ZESHENG 1 43.7% +32.0%
ANDREI, RADU 1 36.8% +20.3%
YU, ARIEL J 1 40.3% +27.5%

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17449429 BI-DIRECTIONAL DIGITAL ASSET POINT OF SALE COMPUTING DEVICE YU, ARIEL J 97d overdue
19073147 SYSTEM DIGITAL ASSET-BACKED DATA INTERACTION SYSTEM OUSSIR, EL MEHDI 4d overdue
19047807 CRYPTOCURRENCY PAYMENT SYSTEM PAYMENTS BACKED BY ASSIGNABLE TOKENS SHARON, AYAL I 2d 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

Interview Candidates (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17449429 BI-DIRECTIONAL DIGITAL ASSET POINT OF SALE COMPUTING DEVICE YU, ARIEL J 97d overdue
19073147 SYSTEM DIGITAL ASSET-BACKED DATA INTERACTION SYSTEM OUSSIR, EL MEHDI 4d overdue
19047807 CRYPTOCURRENCY PAYMENT SYSTEM PAYMENTS BACKED BY ASSIGNABLE TOKENS SHARON, AYAL I 2d 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
18650712 MULTI-DIGITAL ASSET SOURCE DIGITAL ASSET-BASED INTERACTION FACILITATION VIA DESTINATION COMPUTING ENTITY-PRESENTED USER INTERFACE XIAO, ZESHENG
18051193 ISSUING ENTITY ACCOUNT-BASED DIGITAL ASSETS OF A DIGITAL ASSET-BASED INTERACTION SYSTEM DANG, CHRISTINE
18051346 SMART CODE MODULE OF A DIGITAL ASSET-BASED INTERACTION SYSTEM DANG, CHRISTINE

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3698 3
3697 2
3691 1
3699 1
3695 1
3627 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19539394 SECURE AND TRUSTED CONVEYANCE FROM USER COMPUTING DEVICE TO MERCHANT COMPUTING ENTITY SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN 3697 §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
19073147 SYSTEM DIGITAL ASSET-BACKED DATA INTERACTION SYSTEM OUSSIR, EL MEHDI 3699 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2025
19047807 CRYPTOCURRENCY PAYMENT SYSTEM PAYMENTS BACKED BY ASSIGNABLE TOKENS SHARON, AYAL I 3695 §101 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2025
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
18051810 SMART CONTRACT DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT UNIT ANDREI, RADU 3697 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 55d Pending Nov 01, 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
18051346 SMART CODE MODULE OF A DIGITAL ASSET-BASED INTERACTION SYSTEM DANG, CHRISTINE 3698 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 31, 2022
17449429 BI-DIRECTIONAL DIGITAL ASSET POINT OF SALE COMPUTING DEVICE YU, ARIEL J 3627 §101§103 Final Rejection 97d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2021

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