Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Xero Limited

10 pending office actions • 10 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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.

4
Hard (40%)
4
Medium (40%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only4 (40%)
§103 only4 (40%)
No statute on record2 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
30% of docket
1
Communications
10% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
60% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FU, HAO 1 50.1% +25.0%
KONERU, SUJAY 1 58.3% +37.1%
GURSKI, AMANDA KAREN 1 32.7% +31.9%
TABOR, AMARE F 1 82.8% +23.0%
GOFMAN, ALEX N 1 68.7% +24.6%
DANG, CHRISTINE 1 48.8% +50.2%
WILBURN, MOLLY K 1 90.1% +8.7%
GETACHEW, WODAJO 1 40.9% +37.7%
BARRETT, RYAN S 1 64.6% +43.2%
KWONG, CHO YIU 1 32.0% +6.1%

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
18468431 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DIRECT ACCOUNT TRANSFER GETACHEW, WODAJO 50d overdue
17902392 Systems and Computer-Implemented Methods for Capital Management KWONG, CHO YIU 17d overdue
18588671 Systems, Methods and Computer Program Products for Determining Information from Image-Based Documents WILBURN, MOLLY K 14d
18869659 Methods, Systems and Computer Program Products for Determining Models for Predicting Reoccurring Transactions KONERU, SUJAY 30d

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18852196 Method, Program, and Apparatus for Controlling Access to a Distributed Shared Ledger DANG, CHRISTINE 58d overdue
18468431 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DIRECT ACCOUNT TRANSFER GETACHEW, WODAJO 50d overdue
18028438 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING PAYMENT BEHAVIOURS BARRETT, RYAN S 30d overdue
18881156 Graphical User Interfaces and Systems, Methods, and Computer-Readable Media for Providing Graphical User Interfaces FU, HAO 23d overdue
18926284 Systems and Methods for Managing Access Credential Requests TABOR, AMARE F 17d overdue
18939186 BENCHMARKING THROUGH DATA MINING GURSKI, AMANDA KAREN 8d
18869659 Methods, Systems and Computer Program Products for Determining Models for Predicting Reoccurring Transactions KONERU, SUJAY 30d
18852130 Methods and Systems for Facilitating Asynchronous Communication GOFMAN, ALEX N 43d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3695 1
3624 1
3625 1
2434 1
2163 1
3698 1
2666 1
3697 1
2148 1
3693 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18881156 Graphical User Interfaces and Systems, Methods, and Computer-Readable Media for Providing Graphical User Interfaces FU, HAO 3695 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jan 03, 2025
18869659 Methods, Systems and Computer Program Products for Determining Models for Predicting Reoccurring Transactions KONERU, SUJAY 3624 §101 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Nov 26, 2024
18939186 BENCHMARKING THROUGH DATA MINING GURSKI, AMANDA KAREN 3625 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Nov 06, 2024
18926284 Systems and Methods for Managing Access Credential Requests TABOR, AMARE F 2434 Other Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2024
18852130 Methods and Systems for Facilitating Asynchronous Communication GOFMAN, ALEX N 2163 §103 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Sep 27, 2024
18852196 Method, Program, and Apparatus for Controlling Access to a Distributed Shared Ledger DANG, CHRISTINE 3698 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2024
18588671 Systems, Methods and Computer Program Products for Determining Information from Image-Based Documents WILBURN, MOLLY K 2666 §101 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Feb 27, 2024
18468431 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DIRECT ACCOUNT TRANSFER GETACHEW, WODAJO 3697 §101 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2023
18028438 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING PAYMENT BEHAVIOURS BARRETT, RYAN S 2148 Other Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Mar 24, 2023
17902392 Systems and Computer-Implemented Methods for Capital Management KWONG, CHO YIU 3693 §101 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Sep 02, 2022

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