Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

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19 pending office actions • 12 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

19
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
7
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 days (7)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (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.

8
Hard (42%)
9
Medium (47%)
1
Easy (5%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only8 (42%)
§103 only6 (32%)
§102 only3 (16%)
§112 only1 (5%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
16% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
16
Mechanical / Eng
84% 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.

190 h
Manual time on pending OAs
38 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
66 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
POUNCIL, DARNELL A 4 21.8% +31.4%
BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD 2 28.7% +20.9%
ZELASKIEWICZ, CHRYSTINA E 1 31.3% +35.3%
TORRICO-LOPEZ, ALAN 1 28.4% +39.0%
DALENCOURT, YVES 1 84.3% -5.7%
STROUD, CHRISTOPHER 1 28.7% +20.7%
MOREAU, AUSTIN J 1 77.9% +28.2%
LONG, MEREDITH A 1 43.1% +22.0%
LEE, JENNIFER V 1 25.5% +40.4%
PATEL, DIPEN M 1 20.5% +24.8%

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
18763078 COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING AUDIO LEAKAGE DALENCOURT, YVES 41d

Hard Cases (14)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18660785 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING RECIPIENTS OF A REWARD ASSOCIATED WITH A CONVERSION STROUD, CHRISTOPHER 128d overdue
18329424 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFERRING MATCHES AND LOGGING-IN OF ONLINE USERS ACROSS DEVICES POUNCIL, DARNELL A 52d overdue
18340259 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING ONLINE USERS ACROSS DEVICES POUNCIL, DARNELL A 28d overdue
18411082 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BID FLOOR CONTROL LEE, JENNIFER V 5d overdue
17657930 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING ONLINE USERS ACROSS DEVICES POUNCIL, DARNELL A 2d overdue
18990666 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CROSS-BROWSER ADVERTISING ID SYNCHRONIZATION BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD 14d
18136913 BUCKETING SYSTEM FOR FEATURE OPTIMIZATION PATEL, DIPEN M 14d
17360604 SYNDICATED RATINGS AND REVIEWS WHITAKER, ANDREW B 15d

Interview Candidates (13)

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
18660785 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING RECIPIENTS OF A REWARD ASSOCIATED WITH A CONVERSION STROUD, CHRISTOPHER 128d overdue
18329424 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFERRING MATCHES AND LOGGING-IN OF ONLINE USERS ACROSS DEVICES POUNCIL, DARNELL A 52d overdue
18978343 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTITY-PROTECTED DATA ELEMENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORK ZELASKIEWICZ, CHRYSTINA E 31d overdue
18340259 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING ONLINE USERS ACROSS DEVICES POUNCIL, DARNELL A 28d overdue
18411082 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BID FLOOR CONTROL LEE, JENNIFER V 5d overdue
17657930 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING ONLINE USERS ACROSS DEVICES POUNCIL, DARNELL A 2d overdue
18990666 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CROSS-BROWSER ADVERTISING ID SYNCHRONIZATION BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD 14d
18136913 BUCKETING SYSTEM FOR FEATURE OPTIMIZATION PATEL, DIPEN M 14d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3622 5
3621 4
3699 1
3625 1
2457 1
2446 1
3688 1
3626 1
3687 1
2152 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18990666 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CROSS-BROWSER ADVERTISING ID SYNCHRONIZATION BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD 3621 §112 Final Rejection 14d Pending Dec 20, 2024
18978343 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTITY-PROTECTED DATA ELEMENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORK ZELASKIEWICZ, CHRYSTINA E 3699 Other Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Dec 12, 2024
18932007 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUGMENTING REAL-TIME ELECTRONIC BIDDING DATA WITH AUXILIARY ELECTRONIC DATA BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD 3621 §102 Final Rejection 30d Pending Oct 30, 2024
18772957 COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GROUP IDENTIFICATION AND CONTENT DELIVERY TORRICO-LOPEZ, ALAN 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Jul 15, 2024
18763078 COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING AUDIO LEAKAGE DALENCOURT, YVES 2457 §102 Final Rejection 41d Pending Jul 03, 2024
18660785 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING RECIPIENTS OF A REWARD ASSOCIATED WITH A CONVERSION STROUD, CHRISTOPHER 3621 §101 Non-Final OA 128d overdue Pending May 10, 2024
18599328 COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN AUGMENTED MESSAGE CONTENT DISPLAY MOREAU, AUSTIN J 2446 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Mar 08, 2024
18598750 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING FIRST PARTY COOKIES LONG, MEREDITH A 3622 §101 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Mar 07, 2024
18411082 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BID FLOOR CONTROL LEE, JENNIFER V 3688 §102 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jan 12, 2024
18340259 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING ONLINE USERS ACROSS DEVICES POUNCIL, DARNELL A 3622 §101 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2023
18329424 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFERRING MATCHES AND LOGGING-IN OF ONLINE USERS ACROSS DEVICES POUNCIL, DARNELL A 3622 §101 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Jun 05, 2023
18136913 BUCKETING SYSTEM FOR FEATURE OPTIMIZATION PATEL, DIPEN M 3621 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Apr 20, 2023
18145192 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONLINE AUCTION OF DIVERSE ELECTRONIC ADVERTISEMENTS POUNCIL, DARNELL A 3622 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Dec 22, 2022
18063259 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A POINT-BASED SUBSCRIPTION PLAN TO A USER SHORTER, RASHIDA R 3626 §101 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Dec 08, 2022
17900413 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING ONLINE ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS KOLOSOWSKI-GAGER, KATHERINE 3687 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Aug 31, 2022
17744961 GROUP PROFILE GENERATION AND CONTENT ITEM SELECTION BASED UPON GROUP PROFILES BAKER, IRENE H 2152 §103 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending May 16, 2022
17657930 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING ONLINE USERS ACROSS DEVICES POUNCIL, DARNELL A 3622 §101 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Apr 04, 2022
17646550 ANALYTICAL PRECURSOR MINING FOR PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION YESILDAG, MEHMET 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Dec 30, 2021
17360604 SYNDICATED RATINGS AND REVIEWS WHITAKER, ANDREW B 3629 §101 Final Rejection 15d Pending Jun 28, 2021

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