Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

VERIZON MEDIA INC.

5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)

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.

3
Hard (60%)
1
Medium (20%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (60%)
§103 only1 (20%)
No statute on record1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
20% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
80% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SMITH, LINDSEY B 1 51.7% +54.5%
ANSARI, AZAM A 1 47.6% +49.6%
LE, MICHAEL 1 65.9% +22.1%
BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE 1 23.1% +27.6%
REFAI, SAM M 1 34.5% +7.5%

Hard Cases (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17393448 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USER GROUP DETERMINATION, CHURN IDENTIFICATION AND CONTENT SELECTION BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE 50d overdue
17529486 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FRAUD IDENTIFICATION UTILIZING COMBINED METRICS ANSARI, AZAM A 12d
17530631 RELATED ITEM DETERMINATION AND CONTENT SELECTION BASED UPON RELATED ITEMS SMITH, LINDSEY B 28d
17305688 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING ELECTRONIC CONTENT DELIVERY FOR NON-MEASURABLE USERS REFAI, SAM M 29d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17404219 COMPARABLE ITEM IDENTIFICATION FOR QUERY ITEMS LE, MICHAEL 98d overdue
17393448 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USER GROUP DETERMINATION, CHURN IDENTIFICATION AND CONTENT SELECTION BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE 50d overdue
17529486 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FRAUD IDENTIFICATION UTILIZING COMBINED METRICS ANSARI, AZAM A 12d
17530631 RELATED ITEM DETERMINATION AND CONTENT SELECTION BASED UPON RELATED ITEMS SMITH, LINDSEY B 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3621 2
3688 1
2163 1
3624 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
17530631 RELATED ITEM DETERMINATION AND CONTENT SELECTION BASED UPON RELATED ITEMS SMITH, LINDSEY B 3688 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Nov 19, 2021
17529486 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FRAUD IDENTIFICATION UTILIZING COMBINED METRICS ANSARI, AZAM A 3621 §101 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Nov 18, 2021
17404219 COMPARABLE ITEM IDENTIFICATION FOR QUERY ITEMS LE, MICHAEL 2163 §103 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2021
17393448 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USER GROUP DETERMINATION, CHURN IDENTIFICATION AND CONTENT SELECTION BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE 3624 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Aug 04, 2021
17305688 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING ELECTRONIC CONTENT DELIVERY FOR NON-MEASURABLE USERS REFAI, SAM M 3621 §101 Final Rejection 29d Pending Jul 13, 2021

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