Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nasdaq Inc. currently has 4 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These 4 pending office actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, which means there is no examiner overlap across the company's active matters. The portfolio is distributed across 4 distinct art units, indicating that each of the 4 pending office actions is being reviewed in a different technical department.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is KANG, TIMOTHY J, who is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since there are 4 pending office actions in total and 4 distinct examiners, KANG, TIMOTHY J and the other three examiners each handle exactly 1 pending office action. This distribution shows a fragmented prosecution landscape for the company's communications technologies.
Managing 4 pending office actions across 4 distinct art units requires the company to be prepared for four different sets of examination guidelines. Because KANG, TIMOTHY J only manages 1 pending office action, the success of the portfolio is not concentrated with any single official. Instead, the 4 distinct examiners provide a diversified set of perspectives within the Communications technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 2 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KANG, TIMOTHY J | 1 | 45.7% | +26.8% |
| REN, ZHUBING | 1 | 71.6% | +42.3% |
| WONG, LINDA | 1 | 85.1% | +15.6% |
| NGUYEN, NHAT HUY T | 1 | 53.8% | +23.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19017991 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSCRIPT PROCESSING | REN, ZHUBING | — |
| 18830275 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING | WONG, LINDA | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18302712 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DETERMINING DYNAMIC TIMERS USING MACHINE LEARNING | NGUYEN, NHAT HUY T | 19d overdue |
| 19248536 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM OF DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION PROCESSING | KANG, TIMOTHY J | — |
| 19017991 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSCRIPT PROCESSING | REN, ZHUBING | — |
| 18830275 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING | WONG, LINDA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3688 | 1 |
| 2658 | 1 |
| 2655 | 1 |
| 2147 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19248536 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM OF DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION PROCESSING | KANG, TIMOTHY J | 3688 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19017991 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSCRIPT PROCESSING | REN, ZHUBING | 2658 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18830275 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING | WONG, LINDA | 2655 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18302712 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DETERMINING DYNAMIC TIMERS USING MACHINE LEARNING | NGUYEN, NHAT HUY T | 2147 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
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