Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
57 pending office actions • 34 art units • 56 examiners • 0 of 57 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 80 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rakuten Group Inc. is currently prosecuting 56 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 56 actions are spread across 33 distinct art units, reflecting a very broad technical footprint. The company works with 55 distinct examiners, meaning almost every pending action is assigned to a different person. This distribution across 33 art units and 55 examiners requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to many different individual examiner preferences and art unit norms. The 56 pending office actions represent a significant investment in transportation and e-commerce innovation.
OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF is the busiest examiner, overseeing 2 pending office actions. This count of 2 actions is the highest concentration for any single examiner in the portfolio. The other actions are distributed among the remaining distinct examiners. With 56 pending actions across 33 art units, the company faces a highly decentralized prosecution process. Practitioners should focus on the 2 actions under OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF while also addressing the broader group of 55 distinct examiners. The 56 pending office actions show a broad distribution of technical filings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 19 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. 19 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 only | 9 (16%) |
| §101 + other | 30 (53%) |
| §103 only | 11 (19%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 2 | 16.2% | +14.1% |
| LE, HUNG D | 1 | 90.1% | +6.4% |
| MILLER, JAMES H | 1 | 40.9% | +36.5% |
| CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S | 1 | 64.6% | +30.6% |
| ALGIBHAH, MAHER N | 1 | 88.0% | +19.2% |
| MALKOWSKI, MARK A | 1 | 47.8% | +7.0% |
| FERRER, JEDIDIAH P | 1 | 51.9% | +38.4% |
| GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE | 1 | 43.0% | +51.4% |
| WEINER, ARIELLE E | 1 | 43.6% | +53.3% |
| DETWEILER, JAMES M | 1 | 38.8% | +43.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18474771 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | ALLEN, WILLIAM J | 51d overdue |
| 18508817 | FLIGHT CONTROL INFORMATION SETTING DEVICE, UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE MONITORING SYSTEM, AND FLIGHT CONTROL INFORMATION SETTING METHOD | THOMPSON, JOSEPH LEIGH | 45d overdue |
| 18954737 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE | 35d overdue |
| 18925681 | SEARCH DEVICE, SEARCH METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | ZIMMERMAN, MATTHEW E | 30d overdue |
| 17644385 | NUTRIENT AMOUNT DETERMINATION DEVICE, NUTRIENT AMOUNT DETERMINATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING NUTRIENT AMOUNT DETERMINATION PROGRAM | FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA | 28d overdue |
| 19063508 | PROVIDING DEVICE, PROVIDING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM | CLARE, MARK C | 23d overdue |
| 18291493 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | SINGH, GURKANWALJIT | 13d |
| 18686882 | LEARNING SYSTEM, LEARNING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | SORRIN, AARON JOSEPH | 13d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19221524 | SEO INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM, SEO INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM | FERRER, JEDIDIAH P | 8d |
| 19294191 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM | MILLER, JAMES H | — |
| 19287725 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AUTHENTICATION CONDITION DETERMINATION METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM | CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S | — |
| 19263515 | SEARCH CONTROL SYSTEM, SEARCH CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM | ALGIBHAH, MAHER N | — |
| 19132894 | ITEM LIST PROVIDING SYSTEM, SERVER, TERMINAL, ITEM LIST PROVIDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE | — |
| 19196849 | ITEM INFORMATION PROVISION DEVICE, ITEM INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD, AND ITEM INFORMATION PROVISION PROGRAM | WEINER, ARIELLE E | — |
| 19176373 | NOTIFICATION DEVICE, NOTIFICATION SYSTEM, NOTIFICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | DETWEILER, JAMES M | — |
| 18289947 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 4 |
| 3689 | 3 |
| 3695 | 3 |
| 3694 | 2 |
| 2165 | 2 |
| 3625 | 2 |
| 3622 | 2 |
| 2122 | 2 |
| 2148 | 2 |
| 2161 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19310939 | INQUIRY ANSWERING SYSTEM, INQUIRY ANSWERING METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM | LE, HUNG D | 2161 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2025 |
| 19294191 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM | MILLER, JAMES H | 3694 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2025 |
| 19287725 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AUTHENTICATION CONDITION DETERMINATION METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM | CUNNINGHAM II, GREGORY S | 3694 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2025 |
| 19263515 | SEARCH CONTROL SYSTEM, SEARCH CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM | ALGIBHAH, MAHER N | 2165 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 19228751 | SETTLEMENT SYSTEM, WEARABLE DEVICE, PROCESSING EXECUTION METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM | MALKOWSKI, MARK A | 3696 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19221524 | SEO INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM, SEO INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM | FERRER, JEDIDIAH P | 2153 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19132894 | ITEM LIST PROVIDING SYSTEM, SERVER, TERMINAL, ITEM LIST PROVIDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE | 3689 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 19196849 | ITEM INFORMATION PROVISION DEVICE, ITEM INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD, AND ITEM INFORMATION PROVISION PROGRAM | WEINER, ARIELLE E | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19176373 | NOTIFICATION DEVICE, NOTIFICATION SYSTEM, NOTIFICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | DETWEILER, JAMES M | 3621 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19120225 | ANOMALY DETECTION SYSTEM, ANOMALY DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | LEIBOVICH, YAIR | 2114 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19087684 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | PARRA, OMAR S | 2421 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19078190 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, LOAN T | 2165 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 18289090 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM | OYEBISI, OJO O | 3695 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19063508 | PROVIDING DEVICE, PROVIDING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM | CLARE, MARK C | 3628 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19060020 | INFORMATION DISPLAYING AND PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND MEDIUM FOR ENABLING SHARING REQUEST BETWEEN MULTIPLE USER DEVICES | KIM, PATRICK | 3628 | §101 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19057854 | SWITCHOVER CONTROL SYSTEM, SWITCHOVER CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | ADVINCULA, LAURENZ | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19052236 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM | SHARON, AYAL I | 3695 | §101 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19034906 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM | WILDER, ANDREW H | — | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19008896 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | VO, HUYEN X | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18991927 | DISPLAY SYSTEM AND DISPLAY METHOD | HSU, JONI | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18991880 | PRODUCT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVER, PRODUCT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | LUDWIG, PETER L | 3627 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18291493 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | SINGH, GURKANWALJIT | 3625 | §101 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18958580 | SERVER DEVICE, SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | LADONI, AHOORA | 3689 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18868521 | CREDIT LEARNING DEVICE, CREDIT LEARNING METHOD, CREDIT ESTIMATION DEVICE, CREDIT ESTIMATION METHOD AND MEDIUM | TRAN, HAI | 3695 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18954737 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE | 3625 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18949028 | IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS, IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | FOSTER, THOMAS JOHN | — | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18932637 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | LEVENTAL, YUVAL HAIM | — | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18931708 | LISTING INFORMATION REGISTRATION DEVICE, LISTING INFORMATION REGISTRATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | PUTTAIAH, ASHA | 3691 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18861722 | CANCELLATION ESTIMATION USING LOCATION INFORMATION | JOSEPH, TONYA S | 3628 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18925681 | SEARCH DEVICE, SEARCH METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | ZIMMERMAN, MATTHEW E | 3688 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18898867 | SEARCH DEVICE, SEARCHING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | UBALE, GAUTAM | 3689 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18898711 | LEARNING SYSTEM, LEARNING METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM | DHOOGE, DEVIN J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18804761 | ELECTRONIC FLEA MARKET SERVER, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | GODBOLD, DAVID GARRISON | 3628 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18696981 | LAYOUT ANALYSIS SYSTEM, LAYOUT ANALYSIS METHOD, AND PROGRAM | FATIMA, UROOJ | 2676 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18686882 | LEARNING SYSTEM, LEARNING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | SORRIN, AARON JOSEPH | 2672 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18525377 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR MACHINE LEARNING | BASOM, BLAINE T | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18508817 | FLIGHT CONTROL INFORMATION SETTING DEVICE, UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE MONITORING SYSTEM, AND FLIGHT CONTROL INFORMATION SETTING METHOD | THOMPSON, JOSEPH LEIGH | 3665 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18289947 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 3622 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18503618 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HINCKLEY, CHASE PAUL | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18474771 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | ALLEN, WILLIAM J | 3619 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 51d overdue | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18339641 | DETECTING DEVICE, DETECTING METHOD, MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE, MACHINE LEARNING METHOD, AND MACHINE LEARNING MODEL | TAN, DAVID H | 2145 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18319017 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | SAX, STEVEN PAUL | 2146 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2023 |
| 18029047 | REWARD GRANTING SYSTEM, SERVER SYSTEM, REWARD GRANTING METHOD AND PROGRAM | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 3622 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 18018269 | LEARNING SYSTEM, LEARNING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | ILES, TYLER EDWARD | 2122 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2023 |
| 17787334 | CREDIT DETERMINATION SYSTEM, CREDIT DETERMINATION METHOD AND PROGRAM | BORLINGHAUS, JASON M | 3692 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
| 18075991 | MATHEMATICAL MODEL TRAINING METHOD | KAPOOR, DEVAN | 2126 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Dec 06, 2022 |
| 17928607 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM | SANKS, SCHYLER S | 2129 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 78d | Pending | Nov 29, 2022 |
| 17928614 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM | TRUONG, BENJAMIN LY | 3626 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2022 |
| 17783651 | ESTIMATION SYSTEM, ESTIMATION METHOD AND PROGRAM | YESILDAG, MEHMET | 3624 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
| 17911768 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM | SALEHI, HELAI | 2433 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2022 |
| 17911407 | LEARNING MODEL EVALUATION SYSTEM, LEARNING MODEL EVALUATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | ASGARI, SIMA | 3698 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 53d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2022 |
| 17910431 | MULTIMODAL OBJECT CLASSIFICATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | SUSSMAN MOSS, JACOB ZACHARY | 2122 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2022 |
| 17586667 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-MODAL TRANSFORMER-BASED CATAGORIZATION | ROHD, BENJAMIN MATTHEW | 2100 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2022 |
| 17644385 | NUTRIENT AMOUNT DETERMINATION DEVICE, NUTRIENT AMOUNT DETERMINATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING NUTRIENT AMOUNT DETERMINATION PROGRAM | FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA | 1685 | §101 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2021 |
| 17616674 | LEARNING SYSTEM AND LEARNING METHOD FOR MULTI-LABEL DATA RECOGNITION | GORMLEY, AARON PATRICK | 2148 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2021 |
| 17055996 | FRAUD ESTIMATION SYSTEM, FRAUD ESTIMATION METHOD AND PROGRAM | ABOU EL SEOUD, MOHAMED | 2148 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2020 |
| 16969964 | SEARCH SYSTEM, SEARCH METHOD, AND PROGRAM | ALGHAZZY, SHAMCY | 2128 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Aug 13, 2020 |
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