Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Home Depot Product Authority LLC

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

13 pending office actions • 9 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

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.

6
Hard (46%)
6
Medium (46%)
1
Easy (8%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (8%)
§101 + other3 (23%)
§103 only4 (31%)
§102 only2 (15%)
Double-patenting only1 (8%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (15%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
5
Information Tech
38% of docket
1
Communications
8% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
31% of docket
3
Business / Other
23% 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
CHOI, YUK TING 1 71.5% +36.4%
LEVINE, ADAM L 1 35.8% +39.5%
NGUYEN, TUAN HOANG 1 90.5% +4.0%
DUCKWORTH, BRADLEY 1 72.4% +20.1%
CHEN, HUO LONG 1 53.7% +30.3%
MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 1 49.7% +20.0%
SKHOUN, HICHAM 1 77.1% +5.5%
SMITH, BRIAN M 1 52.5% +36.9%
GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO 1 61.2% +25.3%
GABLER, PHILIP F 1 72.9% +23.4%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19012537 DETERMINING VISUALLY SIMILAR IMAGES NGUYEN, TUAN HOANG —

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
18103744 TIGHTENING ROD FOR SLING CHAIR GABLER, PHILIP F 69d
18870012 MODULAR AND POLYVALENT TOP PANEL FOR FURNITURE DUCKWORTH, BRADLEY 84d
19080224 COMPLEMENTARY ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON MULTI-MODAL EMBEDDINGS LEVINE, ADAM L —
18960394 ITEM IMAGE LIBRARY MAINTENANCE BASED ON LOW-QUALITY IMAGES CHEN, HUO LONG —
18431370 USER SELECTION PREDICTION BASED ON GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK AND USER SELECTION SEQUENCE SMITH, BRIAN M —
17887195 INFORMATION-GREEDY MULTI-ARM BANDITS FOR ELECTRONIC USER INTERFACE EXPERIENCE TESTING WEBB III, JAMES L —

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
18932484 PRESENTATION OF RELATED AND CORRECTED QUERIES FOR A SEARCH ENGINE MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 22d
18103744 TIGHTENING ROD FOR SLING CHAIR GABLER, PHILIP F 69d
18870012 MODULAR AND POLYVALENT TOP PANEL FOR FURNITURE DUCKWORTH, BRADLEY 84d
19197329 USER CLICK MODELLING IN SEARCH QUERIES CHOI, YUK TING —
19080224 COMPLEMENTARY ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON MULTI-MODAL EMBEDDINGS LEVINE, ADAM L —
18960394 ITEM IMAGE LIBRARY MAINTENANCE BASED ON LOW-QUALITY IMAGES CHEN, HUO LONG —
18431370 USER SELECTION PREDICTION BASED ON GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK AND USER SELECTION SEQUENCE SMITH, BRIAN M —
18569526 ACCESSORY ATTACHMENT ASSEMBLY FOR CONTAINER GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2164 2
3632 1
2682 1
2159 1
3735 1
3636 1
2142 1
2144 1
3624 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19197329 USER CLICK MODELLING IN SEARCH QUERIES CHOI, YUK TING 2164 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 02, 2025
19080224 COMPLEMENTARY ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON MULTI-MODAL EMBEDDINGS LEVINE, ADAM L — §101§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 14, 2025
19012537 DETERMINING VISUALLY SIMILAR IMAGES NGUYEN, TUAN HOANG — DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 07, 2025
18870012 MODULAR AND POLYVALENT TOP PANEL FOR FURNITURE DUCKWORTH, BRADLEY 3632 §102§112 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Nov 27, 2024
18960394 ITEM IMAGE LIBRARY MAINTENANCE BASED ON LOW-QUALITY IMAGES CHEN, HUO LONG 2682 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 26, 2024
18932484 PRESENTATION OF RELATED AND CORRECTED QUERIES FOR A SEARCH ENGINE MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 2159 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Oct 30, 2024
18901739 GENERATION OF A SEQUENCE OF RELATED TEXT-BASED SEARCH QUERIES SKHOUN, HICHAM 2164 §102 Final Rejection 9d Pending Sep 30, 2024
18431370 USER SELECTION PREDICTION BASED ON GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK AND USER SELECTION SEQUENCE SMITH, BRIAN M — §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 02, 2024
18569526 ACCESSORY ATTACHMENT ASSEMBLY FOR CONTAINER GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO 3735 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 12, 2023
18103744 TIGHTENING ROD FOR SLING CHAIR GABLER, PHILIP F 3636 §102§103 Final Rejection 69d Pending Jan 31, 2023
17947117 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED USER SELECTION PREDICTION BASED ON SEQUENCE OF PRIOR USER SELECTIONS KOWALIK, SKIELER ALEXANDER 2142 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 17, 2022
17891304 WEAKLY-SUPERVISED COMPATIBLE PRODUCTS RECOMMENDATION MEYER, JACQUELINE CHRISTINE 2144 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 19, 2022
17887195 INFORMATION-GREEDY MULTI-ARM BANDITS FOR ELECTRONIC USER INTERFACE EXPERIENCE TESTING WEBB III, JAMES L 3624 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 12, 2022

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