Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
62 pending office actions • 37 art units • 60 examiners • 0 of 62 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 62 patents granted in the last 365 days
Yahoo Assets LLC has 62 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are spread across 60 distinct examiners and 38 distinct art units. The volume of 62 pending office actions relative to 38 distinct art units suggests that some art units are handling multiple applications for the company.
The workload is decentralized among examiners, with 60 distinct examiners assigned to the 62 actions. DAGNEW, SABA is the busiest examiner and has 2 pending office actions. This busiest examiner pending count of 2 shows that no individual examiner has a significant influence over the total portfolio's progress.
Navigating 38 distinct art units requires a broad understanding of various examination practices within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area. Because there are 60 distinct examiners for 62 actions, the cases are being handled by many different people. This distribution emphasizes the need for a standardized prosecution approach that can remain effective across the 38 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 23 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 23 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 10 (16%) |
| §101 + other | 26 (42%) |
| §103 only | 12 (19%) |
| §102 only | 1 (2%) |
| §112 only | 2 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (13%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (2%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAGNEW, SABA | 2 | 37.5% | +17.6% |
| COLE, BRANDON S | 2 | 79.2% | +7.5% |
| ALAM, SHAHID AL | 1 | 87.8% | +14.7% |
| UDDIN, MD I | 1 | 77.1% | +73.7% |
| LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE | 1 | 88.5% | +5.3% |
| VU, BAI DUC | 1 | 78.6% | +18.8% |
| PHAN, TUANKHANH D | 1 | 79.3% | +12.7% |
| SHAH, MEHULKUMAR J | 1 | 67.6% | +36.5% |
| WU, MING HAN | 1 | 76.8% | +23.6% |
| JOO, JOSHUA | 1 | 78.4% | +23.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19268733 | TWO-STATE TIME-ENRICHED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUERY CLUSTERING | LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18075467 | PRESENTING CONTENT OF AN APPLICATION | CAO, PHUONG THAO | 51d overdue |
| 18442144 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC SUMMARY GENERATION | SHEN, SAMUEL | 50d overdue |
| 18539396 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AI-BASED GENERATION AND DELIVERY OF NETWORK RESOURCES | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 45d overdue |
| 18300923 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA INDEXING AND REPORTING | LIN, ALLEN S | 18d overdue |
| 18912976 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SERVING PERSONALIZED CONTENT TO ENHANCE USER EXPERIENCE | TIV, BACKHEAN | 11d overdue |
| 18664738 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTEXT OF WEB CONTENT | BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | 8d overdue |
| 18596015 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING A VALUE ANALYSIS AND DISPLAYING A CORRESPONDING MODEL | SUBRAMANIAN, NARAYANSWAMY | 5d overdue |
| 18539906 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AI-BASED DIGITAL CONTENT SCALING | VAN BRAMER, JOHN W | 7d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18359385 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLOW PREFERENCE VIA WATERFALLING MECHANISM AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | DAGNEW, SABA | 9d |
| 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 | — |
| 19238786 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING QUERY SUGGESTIONS BASED ON USER FEEDBACK | PHAN, TUANKHANH D | — |
| 19170680 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STORING AND MANAGING DIGITAL ASSETS | SHAH, MEHULKUMAR J | — |
| 19071830 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING AI TO FACILITATE IMAGE EDITING | WU, MING HAN | — |
| 19061517 | Email Review System | JOO, JOSHUA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2653 | 3 |
| 3621 | 3 |
| 3622 | 3 |
| 2154 | 2 |
| 2159 | 2 |
| 2655 | 2 |
| 3692 | 2 |
| 2171 | 2 |
| 3626 | 2 |
| 4100 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | §101§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 | §101§103Other | 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 |
| 19071830 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING AI TO FACILITATE IMAGE EDITING | WU, MING HAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19061517 | Email Review System | JOO, JOSHUA | — | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19047126 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HIGH SCALE AUTORESPONDER VIA LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS | VOGT, JACOB BUI | 2653 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 19008386 | EVALUATING EMAIL ACTIVITY | DAGNEW, SABA | 3621 | §101§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 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 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 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 | Non-Final OA | — | 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 |
| 18829238 | PERFORMING ENTITY ACTIONS USING EMAIL INTERFACES | CHISM, STEVEN R | 3692 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18815244 | DOMAIN-BASED VISUALIZATIONS OF MESSAGING CONTENT | NAZAR, AHAMED I | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18786652 | Search Query Generation Based Upon Received Text | MOSER, BRUCE M | 2154 | §101§102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 29, 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 |
| 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 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18627500 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESPONDING TO QUERIES | RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN | 2163 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 13d | 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 |
| 18442144 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC SUMMARY GENERATION | SHEN, SAMUEL | 2179 | §103§112 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 18489163 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A PERSONALIZED USER INTERFACE USING GENERATIVE AI | MERCADO, GABRIEL S | 2171 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18487460 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSISTENT CONTENT CATEGORIZATION VIA GENERATIVE AI | CHOWDHURY, SUMAIR RASHED | 4100 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 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 |
| 18476380 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACTION SUGGESTIONS | HASSAN, ALI MOHAMAD | 2653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18471773 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GRAPH DATA MODELING | COBB, MICHAEL J | 2615 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18359385 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLOW PREFERENCE VIA WATERFALLING MECHANISM AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | DAGNEW, SABA | 3621 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18335353 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING ALPHA AND BETA VALUES OF A CANDIDATE RELATIVE TO A CLASS | HOANG, AMY P | 2143 | §103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Jun 15, 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 |
| 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 |
| 18187940 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AND PROVIDING PRODUCT AVAILABILITY | WALKER, MICHAEL JARED | 3627 | §101 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Mar 22, 2023 |
| 18183224 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SAFEGUARDING PRIVACY | TRUONG, LAWRENCE QUANG | 2434 | §112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Mar 14, 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 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
| 18075467 | PRESENTING CONTENT OF AN APPLICATION | CAO, PHUONG THAO | 2164 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 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 |
| 17818788 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK FOR DELIVERED CONTENT | O'SHEA, BRENDAN S | 3626 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Aug 10, 2022 |
| 17827400 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUGMENTING EXISTING EXPERTS FOR ENHANCED PREDICTIONS | COLE, BRANDON S | 2128 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | May 27, 2022 |
| 17711547 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR JOINT PREDICTIVE MODELING OF MULTIPLE TARGETING SEGMENTS | SANKS, SCHYLER S | 2100 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2022 |
| 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 | §101§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 |
| 15237970 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-LABEL PREDICTION | LO, ANN J | 2159 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Aug 16, 2016 |
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