Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Giesecke+Devrient Epayments GmbH

9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
1
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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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 (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due later (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.

3
Hard (33%)
3
Medium (33%)
2
Easy (22%)
1
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (22%)
§103 only3 (33%)
§112 only2 (22%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (11%)
No statute on record1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
11% of docket
1
Information Tech
11% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
3
Semiconductors
33% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
1
Business / Other
11% 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
ELLIS, SUEZU Y 1 76.6% +21.7%
FRANKLIN, JAMARA ALZAIDA 1 84.0% +6.5%
KWONG, CHO YIU 1 32.1% +4.7%
KHATRI, PRASHANT J 1 61.1% +28.5%
MAI, THIEN T 1 59.2% +20.0%
O'CONNOR-EMANUEL, LAWRENCE SCOTT 1
GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT 1 48.3% +16.4%
KENNEDY, LESA M 1 76.8% +24.3%
LEWIS, JUSTIN V 1 55.2% +17.6%

Hard Cases (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19009540 CARD RENEWAL MACHINE KWONG, CHO YIU 28d overdue
18710068 SECURITY FEATURE FOR AN IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT, IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SECURITY FEATURE GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT 70d
18746267 SECURE ELEMENT WITH OPTIMIZED BYTECODE O'CONNOR-EMANUEL, LAWRENCE SCOTT

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18884743 DATA CARRIER IN CARD FORM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A DATA CARRIER IN CARD FORM MAI, THIEN T 14d
18710068 SECURITY FEATURE FOR AN IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT, IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SECURITY FEATURE GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT 70d
19216259 CARD BODY AND LIGHT GUIDE BODY FOR A PORTABLE DATA CARRIER AND SAME ELLIS, SUEZU Y
18850813 SECURE ELEMENT HAVING A CARD-TYPE BODY MADE OF A PLURALITY OF LAYERS, AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF KHATRI, PRASHANT J
18701762 AUTHORIZING AN APPLICATION ON A SECURITY ELEMENT KENNEDY, LESA M
18578953 IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT, SYSTEM ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT LEWIS, JUSTIN V

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2876 3
3637 2
3693 1
1783 1
2458 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19216259 CARD BODY AND LIGHT GUIDE BODY FOR A PORTABLE DATA CARRIER AND SAME ELLIS, SUEZU Y 2876 §112 Non-Final OA Pending May 22, 2025
19114934 CARD-TYPE DATA CARRIER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURE THEREOF FRANKLIN, JAMARA ALZAIDA 2876 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Mar 25, 2025
19009540 CARD RENEWAL MACHINE KWONG, CHO YIU 3693 §101§103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Jan 03, 2025
18850813 SECURE ELEMENT HAVING A CARD-TYPE BODY MADE OF A PLURALITY OF LAYERS, AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF KHATRI, PRASHANT J 1783 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 25, 2024
18884743 DATA CARRIER IN CARD FORM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A DATA CARRIER IN CARD FORM MAI, THIEN T 2876 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Sep 13, 2024
18746267 SECURE ELEMENT WITH OPTIMIZED BYTECODE O'CONNOR-EMANUEL, LAWRENCE SCOTT §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 18, 2024
18710068 SECURITY FEATURE FOR AN IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT, IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SECURITY FEATURE GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT 3637 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 70d Pending May 14, 2024
18701762 AUTHORIZING AN APPLICATION ON A SECURITY ELEMENT KENNEDY, LESA M 2458 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 16, 2024
18578953 IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT, SYSTEM ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT LEWIS, JUSTIN V 3637 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 12, 2024

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