Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
HALLMARK CARDS Incorporated is currently navigating 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, showing a high degree of examiner diversity. These examiners are located across 4 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's mechanical and e-commerce innovations are being reviewed by several different specialized groups. The distribution of 5 actions across 4 art units requires the company to manage multiple prosecution paths and technical standards simultaneously.
SHIH, HAOSHIAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Since each of the 5 distinct examiners is responsible for only 1 pending office action, the company's prosecution is broadly distributed across the patent office. This lack of concentration under a single examiner means the company receives a wide range of individual perspectives on its 5 pending matters. The focus on the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area reflects the company's ongoing efforts to protect its mechanical and digital commerce systems. This active portfolio of 5 pending office actions indicates a significant and diverse engagement with the patent office.
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 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHIH, HAOSHIAN | 1 | 69.6% | +20.4% |
| MCCLAIN, GERALD | 1 | 74.3% | +14.5% |
| LETT, THOMAS J | 1 | 84.0% | -34.9% |
| DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN | 1 | 1.7% | +4.7% |
| TAWFIK, SAMEH | 1 | 63.1% | +31.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18621899 | AUGMENTED REALITY CAPTURE OF CUSTOMIZED CONTENT FOR PRINT-ON-DEMAND PRODUCTS | LETT, THOMAS J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18136330 | ASSOCIATING AND RETRIEVING MEMORIES WITH PHYSICAL OBJECTS | DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN | 73d overdue |
| 18642944 | SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES FOR SELECTING AND PACKING ARTICLES | MCCLAIN, GERALD | 1d overdue |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17834819 | GREETING CARD FOR AUTOMATED PRINTING | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3d overdue |
| 18642944 | SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES FOR SELECTING AND PACKING ARTICLES | MCCLAIN, GERALD | 1d overdue |
| 18912687 | DIGITAL ASSET GENERATION AND COMMUNICATION | SHIH, HAOSHIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3652 | 1 |
| 2611 | 1 |
| 3689 | 1 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18912687 | DIGITAL ASSET GENERATION AND COMMUNICATION | SHIH, HAOSHIAN | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18642944 | SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES FOR SELECTING AND PACKING ARTICLES | MCCLAIN, GERALD | 3652 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18621899 | AUGMENTED REALITY CAPTURE OF CUSTOMIZED CONTENT FOR PRINT-ON-DEMAND PRODUCTS | LETT, THOMAS J | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18136330 | ASSOCIATING AND RETRIEVING MEMORIES WITH PHYSICAL OBJECTS | DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN | 3689 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
| 17834819 | GREETING CARD FOR AUTOMATED PRINTING | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §102 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jun 07, 2022 |
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