Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Trading Technologies International Inc. has 8 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 5 distinct art units, suggesting that their trading technologies intersect with several different classification categories. The 8 distinct examiners assigned to these cases mean that every pending action is being reviewed by a different person, requiring a highly individualized approach to each application.
Cho Yiu Kwong is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because each of the 8 distinct examiners holds exactly 1 case, there is no concentration of work with any single individual. The distribution across 5 distinct art units and 8 distinct examiners requires the company to tailor its advocacy for each of the pending office actions, ensuring that its trading innovations are effectively protected across the diverse technical landscape of the USPTO.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 only | 4 (57%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (14%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KWONG, CHO YIU | 1 | 32.3% | +4.3% |
| ROBINSON, CHRISTOPHER B | 1 | 89.2% | +6.8% |
| DANG, PHONG H | 1 | 80.9% | +10.7% |
| TRAN, HAI | 1 | 62.1% | +31.8% |
| MILLER, JAMES H | 1 | 40.9% | +36.5% |
| NGUYEN, LIZ P | 1 | 61.1% | +6.0% |
| LIU, I JUNG | 1 | 61.8% | +33.4% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19254712 | Tailored Messaging | ROBINSON, CHRISTOPHER B | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18536529 | Order Entry Actions | LIU, I JUNG | 7d |
| 18807002 | Flexible Price-Volume Indicator | NGUYEN, LIZ P | 40d |
| 19306239 | Configurable Oder Entry, Matching, Coordination, and Market Data Intervals | KWONG, CHO YIU | — |
| 19210506 | Distributed Spreading Tools and Methods | TRAN, HAI | — |
| 19001109 | Dynamic Strategy Management Tool | MILLER, JAMES H | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18536529 | Order Entry Actions | LIU, I JUNG | 7d |
| 19234987 | BUFFERING ELEMENTS FOR PROCESSING | DANG, PHONG H | — |
| 19210506 | Distributed Spreading Tools and Methods | TRAN, HAI | — |
| 19001109 | Dynamic Strategy Management Tool | MILLER, JAMES H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3693 | 1 |
| 2447 | 1 |
| 3694 | 1 |
| 3696 | 1 |
| 3695 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19306239 | Configurable Oder Entry, Matching, Coordination, and Market Data Intervals | KWONG, CHO YIU | 3693 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2025 |
| 19254712 | Tailored Messaging | ROBINSON, CHRISTOPHER B | 2447 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19234987 | BUFFERING ELEMENTS FOR PROCESSING | DANG, PHONG H | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 |
| 19210506 | Distributed Spreading Tools and Methods | TRAN, HAI | — | §101Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 19001109 | Dynamic Strategy Management Tool | MILLER, JAMES H | 3694 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18807002 | Flexible Price-Volume Indicator | NGUYEN, LIZ P | 3696 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18536529 | Order Entry Actions | LIU, I JUNG | 3695 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
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