Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
VeriFone Inc. has 6 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, giving each reported matter a separate examination path.
FLORES, ROBERTO W is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The docket shows no examiner concentration. Practitioners should rely on matter-specific claim analysis and the assigned art-unit context.
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 only | 1 (17%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLORES, ROBERTO W | 1 | 49.8% | +14.0% |
| UBALE, GAUTAM | 1 | 53.6% | +51.1% |
| GAO, JING | 1 | 58.1% | +30.1% |
| ROSEN, ELIZABETH H | 1 | 46.0% | +49.9% |
| CRAWLEY, TALIA F | 1 | 48.5% | +25.1% |
| PAN, HANG | 1 | 74.8% | +25.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18840584 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONLINE PAYMENT ON A PAYMENT TERMINAL | UBALE, GAUTAM | 46d overdue |
| 18703945 | DIGITAL PAYMENT SOURCE VALIDATION | ROSEN, ELIZABETH H | — |
| 18703981 | DIGITAL PAYMENT SOURCE VALIDATION VIA NEAREST NEIGHBOR | CRAWLEY, TALIA F | — |
| 18573687 | SMART TERMINAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR UPDATING TERMINAL SOFTWARE | PAN, HANG | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18840584 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONLINE PAYMENT ON A PAYMENT TERMINAL | UBALE, GAUTAM | 46d overdue |
| 19165443 | SYSTEM FOR PREVENTING SIMULTANEOUS ACTIVATION IN A KEYBOARD KEY | FLORES, ROBERTO W | — |
| 18705087 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR LOCATION-BASED PAYMENT ACCESS | GAO, JING | — |
| 18703945 | DIGITAL PAYMENT SOURCE VALIDATION | ROSEN, ELIZABETH H | — |
| 18703981 | DIGITAL PAYMENT SOURCE VALIDATION VIA NEAREST NEIGHBOR | CRAWLEY, TALIA F | — |
| 18573687 | SMART TERMINAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR UPDATING TERMINAL SOFTWARE | PAN, HANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2621 | 1 |
| 3689 | 1 |
| 2647 | 1 |
| 3693 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| 2193 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19165443 | SYSTEM FOR PREVENTING SIMULTANEOUS ACTIVATION IN A KEYBOARD KEY | FLORES, ROBERTO W | 2621 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2025 |
| 18840584 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONLINE PAYMENT ON A PAYMENT TERMINAL | UBALE, GAUTAM | 3689 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18705087 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR LOCATION-BASED PAYMENT ACCESS | GAO, JING | 2647 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18703945 | DIGITAL PAYMENT SOURCE VALIDATION | ROSEN, ELIZABETH H | 3693 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18703981 | DIGITAL PAYMENT SOURCE VALIDATION VIA NEAREST NEIGHBOR | CRAWLEY, TALIA F | 3627 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18573687 | SMART TERMINAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR UPDATING TERMINAL SOFTWARE | PAN, HANG | 2193 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialVeriFone Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Roberto W Flores has the most, with 1 of VeriFone Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
