Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Shenzhen Financial Technology Institute (Financial Technology Institute Pbc) has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 4 actions are handled by 4 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. This indicates that each examiner is responsible for exactly a case, resulting in a completely dispersed workload among the assigned officials. The use of 3 distinct art units for the 4 pending actions suggests that the institute's filings are spread across several specialized groups.
The busiest examiner is DANG, CHRISTINE, who manages 1 pending office action. This matches the workload of the other distinct examiners involved. With the 3 distinct art units for the 4 pending actions, the company's financial technology innovations touch on multiple technical classifications. Practitioners must navigate the specific requirements of the different administrative units. Since no examiner handles more than a case, the prosecution strategy must be tailored to the individual perspectives of the 4 distinct examiners. The busiest examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action.
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 | 4 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANG, CHRISTINE | 1 | 50.0% | +51.1% |
| EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | 1 | 1.9% | +1.1% |
| CHISM, STEVEN R | 1 | 30.8% | +42.3% |
| HASBROUCK, MERRITT J | 1 | 9.8% | +7.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19100572 | Settlement Method and Apparatus Based on Digital Currency Wallet System, and Wallet System | EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | 7d |
| 19342723 | TRANSACTION PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | DANG, CHRISTINE | — |
| 18992735 | Digital Currency-Based Prepayment Fund Management Method, Apparatus and System | CHISM, STEVEN R | — |
| 18834439 | Digital Currency Transaction Method and System, and Digital Currency Card Application Apparatus | HASBROUCK, MERRITT J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19342723 | TRANSACTION PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | DANG, CHRISTINE | — |
| 18992735 | Digital Currency-Based Prepayment Fund Management Method, Apparatus and System | CHISM, STEVEN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3695 | 2 |
| 3698 | 1 |
| 3692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19342723 | TRANSACTION PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | DANG, CHRISTINE | 3698 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 19100572 | Settlement Method and Apparatus Based on Digital Currency Wallet System, and Wallet System | EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | 3695 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Feb 02, 2025 |
| 18992735 | Digital Currency-Based Prepayment Fund Management Method, Apparatus and System | CHISM, STEVEN R | 3692 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18834439 | Digital Currency Transaction Method and System, and Digital Currency Card Application Apparatus | HASBROUCK, MERRITT J | 3695 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
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