Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Rakuten Group Inc.

43 pending office actions • 32 art units • 42 examiners • 0 of 43 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 96 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

43
Total Pending OAs
26
Non-Final OAs
13
Final Rejections
4
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 43 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

23
Overdue
0
Due this week
12
Due this month
5
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 43 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (23)Due ≤ 30 days (12)Due ≤ 60 days (5)Due later (3)

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.

13
Hard (30%)
30
Medium (70%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only13 (30%)
§103 only27 (63%)
§102 only3 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
2% of docket
11
Information Tech
26% of docket
6
Communications
14% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
25
Mechanical / Eng
58% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

430 h
Manual time on pending OAs
86 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
150 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JOSEPH, TONYA S 2 23.7% +19.9%
FERRER, JEDIDIAH P 1 51.8% +39.7%
CLARE, MARK C 1 13.0% +18.9%
KIM, PATRICK 1 26.0% +33.8%
SHARON, AYAL I 1 43.1% +28.7%
SALCE, JASON P 1 67.6% +16.1%
SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 1 61.9% +26.7%
LE, HUNG D 1 90.2% +6.1%
LADONI, AHOORA 1 6.7% +11.7%
GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE 1 23.0% +33.4%

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
18961799 CONTENT PROVISION DEVICE, CONTENT PROVISION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM LE, HUNG D 29d

Hard Cases (17)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18961665 ELECTRONIC TICKET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC TICKET MANAGEMENT METHOD, VISITOR TERMINAL, SERVER, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH PROGRAM IS RECORDED JOSEPH, TONYA S 126d overdue
18191479 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND MODEL CONSTRUCTION METHOD PADOT, TIMOTHY 89d overdue
18677082 INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM JOSEPH, TONYA S 60d overdue
18486529 POLICY EVALUATION DEVICE, POLICY EVALUATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THAT STORES POLICY EVALUATION PROGRAM VIG, NARESH 60d overdue
18954737 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE 35d overdue
18550678 IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR FRAUD DETECTION WASHINGTON, JAMARES 28d overdue
19063508 PROVIDING DEVICE, PROVIDING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM CLARE, MARK C 23d overdue
18686882 LEARNING SYSTEM, LEARNING METHOD, AND PROGRAM SORRIN, AARON JOSEPH 13d

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18961665 ELECTRONIC TICKET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC TICKET MANAGEMENT METHOD, VISITOR TERMINAL, SERVER, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH PROGRAM IS RECORDED JOSEPH, TONYA S 126d overdue
18677082 INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM JOSEPH, TONYA S 60d overdue
18954737 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE 35d overdue
18008484 DISTRIBUTION OF VIDEO IN WHICH TIME PERIOD DURING WHICH PRODUCT WAS PRESENTED IS ESTIMATED SALCE, JASON P 32d overdue
19063508 PROVIDING DEVICE, PROVIDING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM CLARE, MARK C 23d overdue
19221524 SEO INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM, SEO INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM FERRER, JEDIDIAH P 8d
18291493 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 13d
18958580 SERVER DEVICE, SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM LADONI, AHOORA 14d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3628 4
3622 4
3625 3
3689 3
2153 2
3695 1
2421 1
2161 1
3663 1
3688 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19221524 SEO INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM, SEO INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM FERRER, JEDIDIAH P 2153 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending May 29, 2025
19063508 PROVIDING DEVICE, PROVIDING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM CLARE, MARK C 3628 §103 Non-Final OA 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 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Feb 21, 2025
19052236 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM SHARON, AYAL I 3695 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Feb 12, 2025
18008484 DISTRIBUTION OF VIDEO IN WHICH TIME PERIOD DURING WHICH PRODUCT WAS PRESENTED IS ESTIMATED SALCE, JASON P 2421 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2025
18291493 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Dec 18, 2024
18961799 CONTENT PROVISION DEVICE, CONTENT PROVISION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM LE, HUNG D 2161 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Nov 27, 2024
18961665 ELECTRONIC TICKET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC TICKET MANAGEMENT METHOD, VISITOR TERMINAL, SERVER, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH PROGRAM IS RECORDED JOSEPH, TONYA S 3628 §103 Non-Final OA 126d overdue Pending Nov 27, 2024
18958580 SERVER DEVICE, SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM LADONI, AHOORA 3689 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 25, 2024
18954737 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2024
18947643 DELIVERY ROUTE SETTING DEVICE, DELIVERY ROUTE SETTING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEMORY ANWARI, MACEEH 3663 §102 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Nov 14, 2024
18925681 SEARCH DEVICE, SEARCH METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM ZIMMERMAN, MATTHEW E 3688 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2024
18677082 INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM JOSEPH, TONYA S 3628 §101 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending May 29, 2024
18647082 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR VAN BRAMER, JOHN W 3622 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2024
18696981 LAYOUT ANALYSIS SYSTEM, LAYOUT ANALYSIS METHOD, AND PROGRAM FATIMA, UROOJ 2676 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2024
18616417 ROUTE OPTIMIZATION FOR VENDOR IN STADIUM EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A 3623 §101 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Mar 26, 2024
18613661 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR PREDICTING PREFERENCE OF USER GROUP LOHARIKAR, ANAND R 3689 §101 Final Rejection 27d Pending Mar 22, 2024
18687770 IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM SHERALI, ISHRAT I 2667 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Feb 28, 2024
18686882 LEARNING SYSTEM, LEARNING METHOD, AND PROGRAM SORRIN, AARON JOSEPH 2672 §101 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Feb 27, 2024
18508817 FLIGHT CONTROL INFORMATION SETTING DEVICE, UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE MONITORING SYSTEM, AND FLIGHT CONTROL INFORMATION SETTING METHOD THOMPSON, JOSEPH LEIGH 3665 §103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Nov 14, 2023
18491063 PLACEHOLDER IMAGE IDENTIFICATION GIULIANI, GIUSEPPI J 2153 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Oct 20, 2023
18486529 POLICY EVALUATION DEVICE, POLICY EVALUATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THAT STORES POLICY EVALUATION PROGRAM VIG, NARESH 3622 §101 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2023
18474771 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM ALLEN, WILLIAM J 3619 §103 Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2023
18467503 ORDER PROCESSING SYSTEM, ORDER PROCESSING METHOD, AND ORDER RECEPTION TERMINAL WEINER, ARIELLE E 3689 §101 Final Rejection 69d Pending Sep 14, 2023
18550678 IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR FRAUD DETECTION WASHINGTON, JAMARES 2681 §101 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2023
17786140 SERVER DEVICE, PRESENTATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR PRESENTING CANDIDATE LISTS CIRNU, ALEXANDRU 3622 §102 Non-Final OA 110d overdue Pending Sep 14, 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
18191479 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND MODEL CONSTRUCTION METHOD PADOT, TIMOTHY 3625 §101 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2023
18114984 QUERY FORMATTING SYSTEM, QUERY FORMATTING METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM HUTCHESON, CODY DOUGLAS 2659 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 27, 2023
18003385 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD JAMES, DOMINIQUE NICOLE 2666 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Dec 27, 2022
18075991 MATHEMATICAL MODEL TRAINING METHOD KAPOOR, DEVAN 2126 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Dec 06, 2022
17928607 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM SANKS, SCHYLER S 2129 §101 Non-Final OA 78d Pending Nov 29, 2022
17928606 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM TRUONG, BENJAMIN LY 3626 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Nov 29, 2022
17783651 ESTIMATION SYSTEM, ESTIMATION METHOD AND PROGRAM YESILDAG, MEHMET 3624 §102 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Sep 29, 2022
17952839 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND MEDIUM MUSTAFA, MOHAMMED H 3693 §101 Final Rejection 26d Pending Sep 26, 2022
17911407 LEARNING MODEL EVALUATION SYSTEM, LEARNING MODEL EVALUATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM ASGARI, SIMA 3698 §103 Final Rejection 53d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2022
17908234 FRAUD DETECTION SYSTEM, FRAUD DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM DONLON, RYAN D 3692 §103 Non-Final OA 244d overdue Pending Aug 30, 2022
17564370 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM LONG, MEREDITH A 3622 §101 Non-Final OA 65d Pending Dec 29, 2021
17645740 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE FOR TRAINING A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL IN A RESPONSE SERVER KIM, JONATHAN J 2141 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2021
17644385 NUTRIENT AMOUNT DETERMINATION DEVICE, NUTRIENT AMOUNT DETERMINATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING NUTRIENT AMOUNT DETERMINATION PROGRAM FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA 1685 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2021
17113756 PREDICTION SYSTEM, PREDICTION METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM MENGISTU, TEWODROS E 2127 §101 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Dec 07, 2020
16969964 SEARCH SYSTEM, SEARCH METHOD, AND PROGRAM ALGHAZZY, SHAMCY 2128 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Aug 13, 2020
16963841 SEARCH SYSTEM, SEARCH METHOD, AND PROGRAM LE, MICHAEL 2163 §103 Final Rejection 58d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2020

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