Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Walgreen Co.

3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

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

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
33% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
67% 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
CHNG, JOY POH AI 1 60.6% +18.8%
ZIMMERMAN, MATTHEW E 1 51.7% +46.4%
LE, UYEN T 1 83.9% +9.7%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18206927 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USING CONFIGURABLE FUNCTIONS TO HARMONIZE DATA FROM DISPARATE SOURCES LE, UYEN T 22d overdue

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18391903 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING DYNAMIC PHARMACY INFORMATION ON A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE ZIMMERMAN, MATTHEW E 1d overdue
18965521 TECHNOLOGY FOR PROCESSING PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS FOR PICKUP BY INDIVIDUALS CHNG, JOY POH AI

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3686 1
3688 1
2156 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18965521 TECHNOLOGY FOR PROCESSING PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS FOR PICKUP BY INDIVIDUALS CHNG, JOY POH AI 3686 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 02, 2024
18391903 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING DYNAMIC PHARMACY INFORMATION ON A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE ZIMMERMAN, MATTHEW E 3688 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2023
18206927 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USING CONFIGURABLE FUNCTIONS TO HARMONIZE DATA FROM DISPARATE SOURCES LE, UYEN T 2156 §103 Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2023

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