Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
VeriFone Inc. has 6 pending office actions currently active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio exhibits a uniform distribution of work, with 6 distinct examiners each handling 1 of the actions. This lack of examiner overlap means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the individual preferences and requirements of different USPTO officials.
The technical scope of these applications is similarly broad, as the pending office actions are spread across distinct art units. This correspondence between actions, examiners, and art units indicates that each matter involves a unique technical classification within the broader transportation and e-commerce sector. The busiest examiner, FLORES, ROBERTO W, manages 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
For a practitioner, the presence of distinct art units for all pending office actions suggests that VeriFone's current filings are not concentrated in a single niche but rather cover a wide array of mechanical and electronic systems. With the distinct examiners involved, the company must manage separate prosecution timelines and sets of examiner interviews without the benefit of consolidated examiner interactions.
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 + other | 3 (50%) |
| §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 | 49.7% | +13.9% |
| UBALE, GAUTAM | 1 | 54.1% | +49.3% |
| GAO, JING | 1 | 57.8% | +30.4% |
| CRAWLEY, TALIA F | 1 | 48.4% | +25.3% |
| JUNG, HENRY H | 1 | 22.9% | +30.7% |
| PAN, HANG | 1 | 74.7% | +25.6% |
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 |
| 18688581 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPEN BANKING BASED-SUBSCRIPTION VIA A UNIVERSAL GATEWAY | JUNG, HENRY H | 9d overdue |
| 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 |
| 18688581 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPEN BANKING BASED-SUBSCRIPTION VIA A UNIVERSAL GATEWAY | JUNG, HENRY H | 9d 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 | — |
| 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 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| 3695 | 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 |
| 18703981 | DIGITAL PAYMENT SOURCE VALIDATION VIA NEAREST NEIGHBOR | CRAWLEY, TALIA F | 3627 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18688581 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPEN BANKING BASED-SUBSCRIPTION VIA A UNIVERSAL GATEWAY | JUNG, HENRY H | 3695 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 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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