Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Relay Payments Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, indicating that each pending matter is being handled by a unique combination of personnel and technical departments. This distribution prevents any single examiner from having a majority influence over the portfolio. The total separation of these 2 actions requires a prosecution approach that treats each case as a distinct technical and administrative challenge.
The busiest examiner is ANDERSON, SCOTT C, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 2 pending actions and 2 distinct examiners, the prosecution effort is split equally. The use of 2 distinct art units for these 2 actions suggests that the company's technologies are being examined under different sets of departmental standards within the transportation and e-commerce fields. Because there is no overlap between the 2 distinct examiners or the 2 distinct art units, practitioners must be prepared to navigate two completely different sets of expectations and requirements to successfully advance the 2 pending office actions.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERSON, SCOTT C | 1 | 58.6% | +31.8% |
| MALHOTRA, SANJEEV | 1 | 65.8% | +30.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18603086 | ISSUER-AGNOSTIC PAYMENTS USING DYNAMIC ALPHANUMERIC CODES | MALHOTRA, SANJEEV | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19307906 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A ONE-TIME USE TOKEN FOR ITEM PURCHASE | ANDERSON, SCOTT C | — |
| 18603086 | ISSUER-AGNOSTIC PAYMENTS USING DYNAMIC ALPHANUMERIC CODES | MALHOTRA, SANJEEV | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3694 | 1 |
| 3691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19307906 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A ONE-TIME USE TOKEN FOR ITEM PURCHASE | ANDERSON, SCOTT C | 3694 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2025 |
| 18603086 | ISSUER-AGNOSTIC PAYMENTS USING DYNAMIC ALPHANUMERIC CODES | MALHOTRA, SANJEEV | 3691 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialRelay Payments Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Scott C Anderson has the most, with 1 of Relay Payments Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
