Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Giesecke+Devrient Advance52 GmbH

13 pending office actions • 6 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 30 days (3)

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.

3
Hard (23%)
10
Medium (77%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (23%)
§103 only9 (69%)
§102 only1 (8%)

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
13
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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MCATEE, PATRICK 2 8.6% +11.8%
GARCIA MIZE, KARLYANNIE MARIE 1 40.5% +37.4%
TURK, BROCK E 1 28.9% +34.7%
SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL 1 50.6% +45.2%
ANDREI, RADU 1 36.2% +20.9%
HUANG, JAY 1 53.0% +20.3%
XIAO, ZESHENG 1 43.0% +33.7%
LOZA, JANICE JOMARIE 1 10.0% +33.3%
JONES, COURTNEY PATRICE 1 67.9% +22.9%
ROSEN, ELIZABETH H 1 46.4% +51.7%

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18629068 RECOVERY UNIT, SECURE TRANSACTION UNIT, TOKEN REFERENCE REGISTER AND ELECTRONIC PAYMENT TRANSACTION SYSTEM ANDREI, RADU 58d overdue
18681041 SECURE ELEMENT, METHOD FOR REGISTERING TOKENS, AND TOKEN REFERENCE REGISTER LOZA, JANICE JOMARIE 53d overdue
17802246 METHOD FOR DIRECTLY TRANSFERRING ELECTRONIC COIN DATA SETS BETWEEN TERMINALS, PAYMENT SYSTEM, CURRENCY SYSTEM AND MONITORING UNIT MCATEE, PATRICK 23d overdue
17802008 METHOD FOR DIRECTLY TRANSMITTING ELECTRONIC COIN DATASETS BETWEEN TERMINALS, PAYMENT SYSTEM, PROTECTION SYSTEM AND MONITORING ENTITY MCATEE, PATRICK 23d overdue
18904737 SECURE TRANSACTION UNIT, ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PROVIDING A TRANSACTION TURK, BROCK E 15d overdue

Interview Candidates (11)

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
18689662 METHOD AND TRANSACTION SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING TOKENS IN AN ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION SYSTEM XIAO, ZESHENG 124d overdue
18629068 RECOVERY UNIT, SECURE TRANSACTION UNIT, TOKEN REFERENCE REGISTER AND ELECTRONIC PAYMENT TRANSACTION SYSTEM ANDREI, RADU 58d overdue
18681041 SECURE ELEMENT, METHOD FOR REGISTERING TOKENS, AND TOKEN REFERENCE REGISTER LOZA, JANICE JOMARIE 53d overdue
18294244 COIN DEPOSIT MANAGING UNIT, AND METHOD IN A COIN DEPOSIT MANAGING UNIT ROSEN, ELIZABETH H 42d overdue
18603456 SECURE TOKEN ISSUER UNIT, SECURE SERVICE PROVIDER UNIT, ELECTRONIC PAYMENT TRANSACTION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PROVIDING NEW TOKENS, METHOD FOR RECEIVING OLD TOKENS HUANG, JAY 23d overdue
17802246 METHOD FOR DIRECTLY TRANSFERRING ELECTRONIC COIN DATA SETS BETWEEN TERMINALS, PAYMENT SYSTEM, CURRENCY SYSTEM AND MONITORING UNIT MCATEE, PATRICK 23d overdue
17802008 METHOD FOR DIRECTLY TRANSMITTING ELECTRONIC COIN DATASETS BETWEEN TERMINALS, PAYMENT SYSTEM, PROTECTION SYSTEM AND MONITORING ENTITY MCATEE, PATRICK 23d overdue
18762189 SECURE REGISTER UNIT, SECURE TRANSACTION UNIT, ELECTRONIC TOKEN TRANSACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A LOOKUP SERVICE SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL 17d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3698 6
3697 2
3619 2
3692 1
3699 1
3693 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18941413 SECURE TRANSACTION UNIT, ELECTRONIC TOKEN TRANSACTION SYSTEM, AND METHOD IN A SECURE TRANSACTION UNIT GARCIA MIZE, KARLYANNIE MARIE 3698 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 08, 2024
18904737 SECURE TRANSACTION UNIT, ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PROVIDING A TRANSACTION TURK, BROCK E 3692 §102 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Oct 02, 2024
18762189 SECURE REGISTER UNIT, SECURE TRANSACTION UNIT, ELECTRONIC TOKEN TRANSACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A LOOKUP SERVICE SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL 3698 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jul 02, 2024
18629068 RECOVERY UNIT, SECURE TRANSACTION UNIT, TOKEN REFERENCE REGISTER AND ELECTRONIC PAYMENT TRANSACTION SYSTEM ANDREI, RADU 3697 §101 Final Rejection 58d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2024
18603456 SECURE TOKEN ISSUER UNIT, SECURE SERVICE PROVIDER UNIT, ELECTRONIC PAYMENT TRANSACTION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PROVIDING NEW TOKENS, METHOD FOR RECEIVING OLD TOKENS HUANG, JAY 3619 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Mar 13, 2024
18689662 METHOD AND TRANSACTION SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING TOKENS IN AN ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION SYSTEM XIAO, ZESHENG 3698 §103 Non-Final OA 124d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2024
18681041 SECURE ELEMENT, METHOD FOR REGISTERING TOKENS, AND TOKEN REFERENCE REGISTER LOZA, JANICE JOMARIE 3698 §103 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2024
18681044 SECURE ELEMENT, METHOD FOR REGISTERING TOKENS, AND TOKEN REFERENCE REGISTER JONES, COURTNEY PATRICE 3699 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2024
18294244 COIN DEPOSIT MANAGING UNIT, AND METHOD IN A COIN DEPOSIT MANAGING UNIT ROSEN, ELIZABETH H 3693 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Feb 01, 2024
18015001 ISSUING ENTITY AND METHOD FOR ISSUING ELECTRONIC COIN DATA SETS, AND PAYMENT SYSTEM SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN 3619 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jan 06, 2023
18015017 METHOD, PARTICIPANT UNIT, TRANSACTION REGISTER AND PAYMENT SYSTEM FOR MANAGING TRANSACTION DATA SETS ZHOU, YINGYING 3697 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Jan 06, 2023
17802246 METHOD FOR DIRECTLY TRANSFERRING ELECTRONIC COIN DATA SETS BETWEEN TERMINALS, PAYMENT SYSTEM, CURRENCY SYSTEM AND MONITORING UNIT MCATEE, PATRICK 3698 §101 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Aug 25, 2022
17802008 METHOD FOR DIRECTLY TRANSMITTING ELECTRONIC COIN DATASETS BETWEEN TERMINALS, PAYMENT SYSTEM, PROTECTION SYSTEM AND MONITORING ENTITY MCATEE, PATRICK 3698 §101 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Aug 24, 2022

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