Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

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75 pending office actions • 43 art units • 70 examiners • 0 of 75 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 62 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

75
Total Pending OAs
40
Non-Final OAs
32
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 28 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

13
Overdue
3
Due this week
8
Due this month
4
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. 28 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (13)Due ≤ 7 days (3)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (4)

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.

49
Hard (65%)
24
Medium (32%)
1
Easy (1%)
1
Unknown (1%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only12 (16%)
§101 + other24 (32%)
§103 only21 (28%)
§102 only2 (3%)
Double-patenting only1 (1%)
Double-patenting + other1 (1%)
Multi-statute (no §101)13 (17%)
No statute on record1 (1%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
32
Information Tech
43% of docket
11
Communications
15% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
22
Mechanical / Eng
29% of docket
10
Business / Other
13% 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.

750 h
Manual time on pending OAs
150 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
262 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
6.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DAGNEW, SABA 2 37.7% +17.6%
MAY, ROBERT F 2 74.2% +31.3%
BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D 2 62.8% +18.3%
VANDERHORST, MARIA VICTORIA 2 48.5% +37.2%
COLE, BRANDON S 2 79.3% +7.3%
ALAM, SHAHID AL 1 87.9% +14.5%
UDDIN, MD I 1 77.3% +73.7%
LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE 1 88.5% +5.3%
VU, BAI DUC 1 78.6% +18.5%
PHAN, TUANKHANH D 1 79.1% +12.9%

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
19268733 TWO-STATE TIME-ENRICHED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUERY CLUSTERING LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE

Hard Cases (49)

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
18075467 PRESENTING CONTENT OF AN APPLICATION CAO, PHUONG THAO 51d overdue
18539396 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AI-BASED GENERATION AND DELIVERY OF NETWORK RESOURCES OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF 45d overdue
18351939 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-PARAMETRIC BID-FLOOR OPTIMIZATION IN AUCTIONS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF VANDERHORST, MARIA VICTORIA 30d overdue
18784402 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SKETCH BASED SEARCH MAY, ROBERT F 19d overdue
18300923 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA INDEXING AND REPORTING LIN, ALLEN S 18d overdue
18081141 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FILTERING CONTENT MHEIR, ZUHEIR 15d overdue
18912976 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SERVING PERSONALIZED CONTENT TO ENHANCE USER EXPERIENCE TIV, BACKHEAN 11d overdue
18336346 AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL MESSAGING CONTENT METHOD AND APPARATUS SKHOUN, HICHAM 10d overdue

Interview Candidates (12)

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
18351939 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-PARAMETRIC BID-FLOOR OPTIMIZATION IN AUCTIONS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF VANDERHORST, MARIA VICTORIA 30d overdue
18784402 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SKETCH BASED SEARCH MAY, ROBERT F 19d overdue
18664738 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTEXT OF WEB CONTENT BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D 8d overdue
18359385 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLOW PREFERENCE VIA WATERFALLING MECHANISM AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF DAGNEW, SABA 9d
18779634 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING TRAVEL-RELATED RECOMMENDATIONS USING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DATA VANDERHORST, MARIA VICTORIA 14d
19294429 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING A SEARCH RESULT IN A SEARCH RESULT CARD ALAM, SHAHID AL
19280285 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING CONTENT UDDIN, MD I
19252685 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTEXT BASED QUERY SUGGESTIONS VU, BAI DUC

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3622 6
3621 4
2154 3
2653 3
3688 3
2153 2
2159 2
2655 2
2459 2
2171 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19294429 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING A SEARCH RESULT IN A SEARCH RESULT CARD ALAM, SHAHID AL §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 08, 2025
19280285 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING CONTENT UDDIN, MD I §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 25, 2025
19268733 TWO-STATE TIME-ENRICHED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUERY CLUSTERING LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 14, 2025
19252685 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTEXT BASED QUERY SUGGESTIONS VU, BAI DUC §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 27, 2025
19238786 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING QUERY SUGGESTIONS BASED ON USER FEEDBACK PHAN, TUANKHANH D 2154 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 16, 2025
19170680 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STORING AND MANAGING DIGITAL ASSETS SHAH, MEHULKUMAR J §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 04, 2025
19061517 Email Review System JOO, JOSHUA §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Feb 24, 2025
19047126 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HIGH SCALE AUTORESPONDER VIA LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS VOGT, JACOB BUI 2653 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 06, 2025
19008386 EVALUATING EMAIL ACTIVITY DAGNEW, SABA 3621 §101§103Other Final Rejection Pending Jan 02, 2025
19003048 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFIED PREDICTIONS AND PERFORMANCE GIULIANI, GIUSEPPI J 2153 §103Other Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 27, 2024
18981785 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AI-BASED ELECTRONIC MAIL MANAGEMENT CHOUDHURY, RAQIUL A 2444 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 16, 2024
18979738 AI-ASSISTED CONTENT RENDERING MANAGEMENT AND RENDERING CONTROL TECHNIQUES SOMERS, MARC S 2159 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 13, 2024
18965557 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEEP UNDERSTANDING LONG-TAIL QUERIES AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF MAY, ROBERT F 2154 §101§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Dec 02, 2024
18951826 RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION AND ANSWER GENERATION ON SEARCH QUERIES MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR 2655 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 19, 2024
18917599 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CATCH-UP CONTENT ALRIYASHI, ABDULKADER MOHAMED 2447 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Oct 16, 2024
18912976 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SERVING PERSONALIZED CONTENT TO ENHANCE USER EXPERIENCE TIV, BACKHEAN 2459 §103§112Other Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Oct 11, 2024
18826271 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED MESSAGING MANAGEMENT BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D 2171 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 06, 2024
18815244 DOMAIN-BASED VISUALIZATIONS OF MESSAGING CONTENT NAZAR, AHAMED I §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 26, 2024
18790773 NEURAL CONTEXTUAL BANDIT BASED COMPUTATIONAL RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND APPARATUS AIRAPETIAN, MILA 3688 DP Final Rejection Pending Jul 31, 2024
18784402 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SKETCH BASED SEARCH MAY, ROBERT F 2154 §101§103Other Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2024
18779634 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING TRAVEL-RELATED RECOMMENDATIONS USING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DATA VANDERHORST, MARIA VICTORIA 3621 §101§103Other Final Rejection 14d Pending Jul 22, 2024
18664738 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTEXT OF WEB CONTENT BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D 2171 §102§103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending May 15, 2024
18661177 NETWORK BASED RENDERING AND HOSTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS UTILIZING AN AGGREGATOR NGUYEN, TIEN C 3694 §101§102Other Non-Final OA 27d Pending May 10, 2024
18643568 ENHANCED MAIL OPERATIONS USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K 2653 §102 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Apr 23, 2024
18627506 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESPONDING TO USER QUERIES IMMANUEL, ILSE I 3699 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 05, 2024
18596015 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING A VALUE ANALYSIS AND DISPLAYING A CORRESPONDING MODEL SUBRAMANIAN, NARAYANSWAMY 3691 §101 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Mar 05, 2024
18591501 AUTOMATIC SEMANTIC SIMILARITY METHOD AND APPARATUS HERZOG, MADHURI R 2438 DPOther Final Rejection Pending Feb 29, 2024
18586295 COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATIVE ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT CREATION AUGUSTINE, NICHOLAS 2178 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Feb 23, 2024
18584428 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUS TEMPORAL ATTENTION ZONE AND ACTION TYPE PREDICTION AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF FLORES, LEON 2676 §101§102 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2024
18442144 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC SUMMARY GENERATION SHEN, SAMUEL 2179 §103 Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2024
18427273 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOMAIN GENERALIZATION AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF KAPOOR, DEVAN §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 30, 2024
18426690 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GRAPH REPRESENTATION FOR HOUSEHOLDS AND APPLICATION THEREOF MANDEL, MONICA A 3622 §101§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jan 30, 2024
18405400 METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ANALYZING SOCIAL NETWORK DATA TO IDENTIFY A FINANCIAL MARKET TREND HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER 3695 §101Other Non-Final OA Pending Jan 05, 2024
18539396 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AI-BASED GENERATION AND DELIVERY OF NETWORK RESOURCES OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF 3622 §101 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2023
18539906 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AI-BASED DIGITAL CONTENT SCALING VAN BRAMER, JOHN W 3622 §101§102§112 Final Rejection 7d Pending Dec 14, 2023
18539428 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN AI-BASED CONTENT PLATFORM CIRNU, ALEXANDRU 3622 §101 Final Rejection Pending Dec 14, 2023
18538688 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LEARNING STABLE MODELS SCHNEE, HAL W §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 13, 2023
18528874 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SMART ENTITY CLONING SONIFRANK, RICHA MISHRA 2654 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 05, 2023
18528417 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED PODCASTS WOZNIAK, JAMES S 2655 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 04, 2023
18523040 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC STORYLINE CONSTRUCTION BASED ON DETERMINED BREAKING NEWS HATCH, ANGELA MAIDA 3626 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 29, 2023
18487487 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSISTENT CONTENT CATEGORIZATION VIA CONSISTENT SELF-TRAINING RAWLINGS, ZANE ALEXANDER 4100 §101§102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 16, 2023
18476439 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MESSAGE AUTOMATION GEORGANDELLIS, ANDREW C 2459 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 28, 2023
18476380 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACTION SUGGESTIONS HASSAN, ALI MOHAMAD 2653 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 28, 2023
18475869 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CREATIVE OPTIMIZATION VIA GENERATIVE AI WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J 3622 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 27, 2023
18452911 AUTOMATIC INTELLIGENT SERVICE REQUEST MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS VIG, NARESH 3622 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 21, 2023
18365949 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GROUP COMMUNICATION ACROSS ELECTRONIC MAIL USERS AND FEATURE PHONE USERS KELLEY, STEVEN SHAUN 2646 §103§112 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Aug 04, 2023
18359385 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLOW PREFERENCE VIA WATERFALLING MECHANISM AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF DAGNEW, SABA 3621 §101 Final Rejection 9d Pending Jul 26, 2023
18359089 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING TERM GENERATION USING HEURISTIC REFINEMENT AND DEEP LEARNING WEAVER, ADAM MICHAEL 2658 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 26, 2023
18351939 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-PARAMETRIC BID-FLOOR OPTIMIZATION IN AUCTIONS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF VANDERHORST, MARIA VICTORIA 3621 §101§103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jul 13, 2023
18217573 AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION AND UTILIZATION OF SEMANTIC INFORMATION FOR CONTENT ITEMS MOORE, URIAH VENDELL 2142 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 02, 2023
18336346 AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL MESSAGING CONTENT METHOD AND APPARATUS SKHOUN, HICHAM 2164 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2023
18321480 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME DISCOVERY OF RELATED PRODUCTS IN MEDIA CONTENT VIA DEEP LEARNING MISIASZEK, MICHAEL 3688 §101 Non-Final OA Pending May 22, 2023
18320350 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING LONG-TAIL TOPICS AND CONTENT AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF WU, TONY 2166 §101 Final Rejection 14d Pending May 19, 2023
18309785 NETWORK BASED PROVISION OF RENDERING AND HOSTING SYSTEMS JAMES, GREGORY MARK 3692 §101§103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Apr 29, 2023
18300923 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA INDEXING AND REPORTING LIN, ALLEN S 2153 §101§112 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Apr 14, 2023
18297176 COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATION-BASED CONTENT FILTERING AND DELIVERY PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 3688 §101 Final Rejection Pending Apr 07, 2023
18175249 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LARGE-SCALE MULTI-LABEL LEARNING USING INCOMPLETE LABEL ASSIGNMENTS MRABI, HASSAN 2147 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Feb 27, 2023
18158404 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEMOGRAPHICS/INTERESTS PREDICTION USING DATA FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES AND APPLICATION THEREOF PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE 3624 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 23, 2023
18081141 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FILTERING CONTENT MHEIR, ZUHEIR 2198 §102§103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2022
18075467 PRESENTING CONTENT OF AN APPLICATION CAO, PHUONG THAO 2164 §103§112 Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Dec 06, 2022
18072083 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPUTING EXACT SUCCESS PROBABILITY FOR QUANTILE ESTIMATION COLE, BRANDON S 2128 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 30, 2022
17821618 ELECTRONIC MESSAGING INFORMATION EXTRACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS JAKOVAC, RYAN J 2445 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 23, 2022
17827364 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATED LARGE-SCALE AUDIENCE TARGETING VIA AUGMENTED HETEROGENEOUS SUBSYSTEMS GONZALES, VINCENT 2124 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending May 27, 2022
17827431 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING MULTIPLE EXPERT PREDICTIONS IN A NONLINEAR FRAMEWORK VIA LEARNING MAUNI, HUMAIRA ZAHIN 2141 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 27, 2022
17827400 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUGMENTING EXISTING EXPERTS FOR ENHANCED PREDICTIONS COLE, BRANDON S 2128 §101 Final Rejection 7d Pending May 27, 2022
17744343 COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR KEY EVENT DETECTION USING DENSE DETECTION ANCHORS VARNDELL, ROSS E 2674 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 13, 2022
17711547 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR JOINT PREDICTIVE MODELING OF MULTIPLE TARGETING SEGMENTS SANKS, SCHYLER S 2100 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 01, 2022
17450195 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE APPLICATION REQUESTS OF PHYSICAL FACILITIES LOFTIS, JOHNNA RONEE 3625 §101 Final Rejection 6d Pending Oct 07, 2021
17470677 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BOUNDING MEANS OF DISCRETE-VALUED DISTRIBUTIONS HALE, BROOKS T 2166 §101 Final Rejection Pending Sep 09, 2021
17143251 COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-CLASS, MULTI-LABEL CLASSIFICATION OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES BORISSOV, IGOR N 3685 §102 Final Rejection Pending Jan 07, 2021
17138148 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TEXT STRUCTURING VIA LANGUAGE MODELS ORTIZ SANCHEZ, MICHAEL 2656 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Dec 30, 2020
17083093 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEEP CUSTOMIZED NEURAL NETWORKS FOR TIME SERIES FORECASTING TRAN, AMY NMN 2126 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 28, 2020
16740658 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING EMAIL MESSAGES BASOM, BLAINE T 2141 Other Non-Final OA 23d Pending Jan 13, 2020
16727219 GENERATING FULL METADATA FROM PARTIAL DISTRIBUTED METADATA LE, MICHAEL 2163 §103§112 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Dec 26, 2019
15237970 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-LABEL PREDICTION LO, ANN J 2159 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Aug 16, 2016

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