Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
16 pending office actions • 12 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
NCR Atleos Corporation currently has 15 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are being reviewed by 15 distinct examiners. This high level of examiner variety suggests that the company must navigate a wide range of individual perspectives and examination styles.
The workload is spread across 11 distinct art units, indicating a broad technological reach. HOLLY, JOHN H is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since every examiner in the pool only manages a single case, the prosecution risk is highly diversified, and no single examiner's decision-making will have a dominant impact on the overall portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 6 (38%) |
| §103 only | 5 (31%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (31%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KASSIM, HAFIZ A | 1 | 44.7% | +53.8% |
| HOLLY, JOHN H | 1 | 53.4% | +31.0% |
| HOROWITZ, NOAH NMN | 1 | 74.0% | +27.5% |
| LONG, MEREDITH A | 1 | 43.2% | +21.1% |
| STEVENSON, CHRISTINA C | 1 | 5.9% | +7.8% |
| NILFOROUSH, MOHAMMAD A | 1 | 30.8% | +36.1% |
| STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 28.2% | +20.8% |
| MUTSCHLER, JOSEPH M | 1 | 60.4% | +48.1% |
| BURKMAN, JESSICA LYNN | 1 | 82.1% | +15.7% |
| CICCHINO, PATRICK D | 1 | 80.6% | +13.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18902393 | NOTE SORTING BY NOTE VERSION | BURKMAN, JESSICA LYNN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19013504 | AUTO INSTALLMENTS VIA SMART CONTRACTS ON BLOCKCHAIN | STEVENSON, CHRISTINA C | 23d overdue |
| 19024140 | CHANNEL INTEGRATION | LONG, MEREDITH A | 4d overdue |
| 18618964 | MEDIA GUIDE AND GUIDING | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | 13d |
| 15168722 | CURRENCY ACQUISITION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | BORLINGHAUS, JASON M | 13d |
| 18589136 | FOREIGN OBJECT DETECTION | ALLISON, ANDRAE S | 14d |
| 18937493 | INTER-ENTITY NON-MONETARY TRANSACTIONS | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 15d |
| 19174288 | ANTICIPATORY AND REMOTE-CONTROLLED MEDIA MANAGEMENT | KASSIM, HAFIZ A | — |
| 19174396 | DECENTRALIZED PEER-TO-PEER TRANSACTION SERVICE | HOLLY, JOHN H | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19024140 | CHANNEL INTEGRATION | LONG, MEREDITH A | 4d overdue |
| 18618964 | MEDIA GUIDE AND GUIDING | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | 13d |
| 18937493 | INTER-ENTITY NON-MONETARY TRANSACTIONS | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 15d |
| 19174288 | ANTICIPATORY AND REMOTE-CONTROLLED MEDIA MANAGEMENT | KASSIM, HAFIZ A | — |
| 19174396 | DECENTRALIZED PEER-TO-PEER TRANSACTION SERVICE | HOLLY, JOHN H | — |
| 19170345 | TERMINAL BREACH PROTECTION METHODS AND DEVICES | HOROWITZ, NOAH NMN | — |
| 18937836 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION OF PRE-STAGED SELF-SERVICE TERMINAL TRANSACTIONS | NILFOROUSH, MOHAMMAD A | — |
| 18917656 | Aggregated Session Management for Terminal Devices | MUTSCHLER, JOSEPH M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3698 | 2 |
| 3696 | 1 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| 3697 | 1 |
| 3621 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 2673 | 1 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19174288 | ANTICIPATORY AND REMOTE-CONTROLLED MEDIA MANAGEMENT | KASSIM, HAFIZ A | — | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19174396 | DECENTRALIZED PEER-TO-PEER TRANSACTION SERVICE | HOLLY, JOHN H | 3696 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19170345 | TERMINAL BREACH PROTECTION METHODS AND DEVICES | HOROWITZ, NOAH NMN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19024140 | CHANNEL INTEGRATION | LONG, MEREDITH A | 3622 | §101DP | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19013504 | AUTO INSTALLMENTS VIA SMART CONTRACTS ON BLOCKCHAIN | STEVENSON, CHRISTINA C | 3698 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18937836 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION OF PRE-STAGED SELF-SERVICE TERMINAL TRANSACTIONS | NILFOROUSH, MOHAMMAD A | 3697 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18937493 | INTER-ENTITY NON-MONETARY TRANSACTIONS | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 3621 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18917656 | Aggregated Session Management for Terminal Devices | MUTSCHLER, JOSEPH M | 3627 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18902393 | NOTE SORTING BY NOTE VERSION | BURKMAN, JESSICA LYNN | 3653 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18618964 | MEDIA GUIDE AND GUIDING | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | 3619 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18618988 | URGING ASSEMBLY AND URGING | MORRISON, THOMAS A | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18589136 | FOREIGN OBJECT DETECTION | ALLISON, ANDRAE S | 2673 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18397314 | SINGLE ITEM REMOVAL | KUMAR, RAKESH | 3651 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18372824 | SECURE TRANSACTION TERMINAL GATEWAY | ZELASKIEWICZ, CHRYSTINA E | 3699 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 16667372 | AUTHENTICATION NETWORK FOR TRANSACTION DATA | SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL | 3698 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2019 |
| 15168722 | CURRENCY ACQUISITION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | BORLINGHAUS, JASON M | 3692 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | May 31, 2016 |
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