Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Giesecke+Devrient Epayments GmbH has 9 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The docket includes 9 distinct examiners and 9 distinct art units, so every matter has a separate recorded examiner and art-unit assignment. This structure provides no single recurring examination channel for portfolio-wide prosecution treatment.
CHU, DAVID H is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Because no examiner has more than one identified matter, counsel should prioritize application-specific review and maintain a centralized system for coordinating otherwise separate prosecution workstreams.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 + other | 3 (43%) |
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHU, DAVID H | 1 | 78.3% | +3.4% |
| HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | 1 | 63.6% | +22.7% |
| KWONG, CHO YIU | 1 | 32.1% | +3.9% |
| YE, XINWEN | 1 | 43.1% | +44.3% |
| SHUKLA, KRUPA | 1 | 15.2% | +22.5% |
| KANERVO, VIRPI H | 1 | 47.5% | +47.6% |
| DUAN, VIVIAN WEIJIA | 1 | 72.7% | +16.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19009540 | CARD RENEWAL MACHINE | KWONG, CHO YIU | 28d overdue |
| 19106787 | CARD-FORM DATA CARRIER HAVING LASER-ACTIVATABLE PIGMENTS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | — |
| 18696410 | LAMINATE FOR A CARDLIKE DATA MEDIUM, CARDLIKE DATA MEDIUM AND METHOD | SHUKLA, KRUPA | — |
| 18556820 | PAYMENT SOLUTION, ESPECIALLY DIGITAL PAYMENT SOLUTION | KANERVO, VIRPI H | — |
| 18041861 | SOFTWARE ELIGIBILITY | DUAN, VIVIAN WEIJIA | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18776801 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A FILM HAVING A SECURITY FEATURE FOR A CARD-SHAPED DATA CARRIER, FILM AND CARD-SHAPED DATA CARRIER | YE, XINWEN | 26d |
| 19106787 | CARD-FORM DATA CARRIER HAVING LASER-ACTIVATABLE PIGMENTS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | — |
| 18696410 | LAMINATE FOR A CARDLIKE DATA MEDIUM, CARDLIKE DATA MEDIUM AND METHOD | SHUKLA, KRUPA | — |
| 18556820 | PAYMENT SOLUTION, ESPECIALLY DIGITAL PAYMENT SOLUTION | KANERVO, VIRPI H | — |
| 18041861 | SOFTWARE ELIGIBILITY | DUAN, VIVIAN WEIJIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2616 | 1 |
| 3631 | 1 |
| 3693 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 3691 | 1 |
| 2191 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19173005 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING A PLASTIC DESIGN ELEMENT ON AN AUTHENTICATION DATA CARRIER | CHU, DAVID H | 2616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 |
| 19106787 | CARD-FORM DATA CARRIER HAVING LASER-ACTIVATABLE PIGMENTS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | 3631 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19009540 | CARD RENEWAL MACHINE | KWONG, CHO YIU | 3693 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18776801 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A FILM HAVING A SECURITY FEATURE FOR A CARD-SHAPED DATA CARRIER, FILM AND CARD-SHAPED DATA CARRIER | YE, XINWEN | 1754 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18696410 | LAMINATE FOR A CARDLIKE DATA MEDIUM, CARDLIKE DATA MEDIUM AND METHOD | SHUKLA, KRUPA | 1787 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18556820 | PAYMENT SOLUTION, ESPECIALLY DIGITAL PAYMENT SOLUTION | KANERVO, VIRPI H | 3691 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 18041861 | SOFTWARE ELIGIBILITY | DUAN, VIVIAN WEIJIA | 2191 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGiesecke+Devrient Epayments GmbH has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 7 examiners.
David H Chu has the most, with 1 of Giesecke+Devrient Epayments GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
