Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Provenance Chain Network, Inc.

3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

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.

2
Hard (67%)
1
Medium (33%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (67%)
§103 only1 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
100% 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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
EVANS, KIMBERLY L 1 12.2% +13.4%
KRAISINGER, EMILY MARIE 1 32.8% +45.5%
SHORTER, RASHIDA R 1 17.8% +25.7%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18685888 CONDITIONAL PERFORMANCE OF ACTIONS BASED ON OBJECT STORY EVANS, KIMBERLY L 2d overdue
18040787 PRODUCT OBJECT STORY SIGNALING FOR CONSUMER COMMUNICATIONS SHORTER, RASHIDA R 5d
18040790 PRODUCT OBJECT STORY SIGNALING FOR TRACKING PRODUCT LIFECYCLE KRAISINGER, EMILY MARIE 14d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18685888 CONDITIONAL PERFORMANCE OF ACTIONS BASED ON OBJECT STORY EVANS, KIMBERLY L 2d overdue
18040787 PRODUCT OBJECT STORY SIGNALING FOR CONSUMER COMMUNICATIONS SHORTER, RASHIDA R 5d
18040790 PRODUCT OBJECT STORY SIGNALING FOR TRACKING PRODUCT LIFECYCLE KRAISINGER, EMILY MARIE 14d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3626 2
3629 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18685888 CONDITIONAL PERFORMANCE OF ACTIONS BASED ON OBJECT STORY EVANS, KIMBERLY L 3629 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2024
18040790 PRODUCT OBJECT STORY SIGNALING FOR TRACKING PRODUCT LIFECYCLE KRAISINGER, EMILY MARIE 3626 §101 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Feb 06, 2023
18040787 PRODUCT OBJECT STORY SIGNALING FOR CONSUMER COMMUNICATIONS SHORTER, RASHIDA R 3626 §101 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Feb 06, 2023

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