Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

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42 pending office actions • 33 art units • 41 examiners • 0 of 42 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 59 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

42
Total Pending OAs
28
Non-Final OAs
11
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 42 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

17
Overdue
4
Due this week
13
Due this month
8
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. 42 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (17)Due ≤ 7 days (4)Due ≤ 30 days (13)Due ≤ 60 days (8)

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.

10
Hard (24%)
28
Medium (67%)
2
Easy (5%)
2
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only10 (24%)
§103 only25 (60%)
§102 only3 (7%)
§112 only2 (5%)
No statute on record2 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
21
Information Tech
50% of docket
7
Communications
17% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
14
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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.

420 h
Manual time on pending OAs
84 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
147 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
VANDERHORST, MARIA VICTORIA 2 48.5% +37.1%
GIULIANI, GIUSEPPI J 1 58.5% +6.4%
TIV, BACKHEAN 1 75.4% +20.3%
CHISM, STEVEN R 1 31.1% +42.9%
MAY, ROBERT F 1 75.5% +30.5%
HLAING, SOE MIN 1 81.9% +16.7%
BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D 1 62.9% +19.6%
NGUYEN, TIEN C 1 68.2% +18.0%
ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K 1 83.2% +16.4%
RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 1 69.1% +38.2%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18738740 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODIFYING INBOX ITEMS WITH QUICK ACTIONS HLAING, SOE MIN 27d
18643568 ENHANCED MAIL OPERATIONS USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K 56d

Hard Cases (10)

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
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
18467400 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOW RANK FIELD-WEIGHTED FACTORIZATION MACHINE AND APPLICATION THEREOF IN CONTENT RECOMMENDATION SPAR, ILANA L 28d overdue
18300923 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA INDEXING AND REPORTING LIN, ALLEN S 18d overdue
18596015 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING A VALUE ANALYSIS AND DISPLAYING A CORRESPONDING MODEL SUBRAMANIAN, NARAYANSWAMY 5d overdue
17450195 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE APPLICATION REQUESTS OF PHYSICAL FACILITIES LOFTIS, JOHNNA RONEE 6d
17827400 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUGMENTING EXISTING EXPERTS FOR ENHANCED PREDICTIONS COLE, BRANDON S 7d
18359385 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLOW PREFERENCE VIA WATERFALLING MECHANISM AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF DAGNEW, SABA 9d

Interview Candidates (10)

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
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
18627500 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESPONDING TO QUERIES RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 13d
18779634 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING TRAVEL-RELATED RECOMMENDATIONS USING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DATA VANDERHORST, MARIA VICTORIA 14d
18829238 PERFORMING ENTITY ACTIONS USING EMAIL INTERFACES CHISM, STEVEN R 20d
18738740 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODIFYING INBOX ITEMS WITH QUICK ACTIONS HLAING, SOE MIN 27d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3621 3
3622 3
2153 2
3692 2
2171 2
2163 2
2164 2
2459 1
2154 1
2451 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19003048 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFIED PREDICTIONS AND PERFORMANCE GIULIANI, GIUSEPPI J 2153 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 27, 2024
18912976 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SERVING PERSONALIZED CONTENT TO ENHANCE USER EXPERIENCE TIV, BACKHEAN 2459 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Oct 11, 2024
18829238 PERFORMING ENTITY ACTIONS USING EMAIL INTERFACES CHISM, STEVEN R 3692 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Sep 09, 2024
18784402 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SKETCH BASED SEARCH MAY, ROBERT F 2154 §103 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 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jul 22, 2024
18738740 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODIFYING INBOX ITEMS WITH QUICK ACTIONS HLAING, SOE MIN 2451 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Jun 10, 2024
18664738 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTEXT OF WEB CONTENT BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D 2171 §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 Other Non-Final OA 27d Pending May 10, 2024
18643568 ENHANCED MAIL OPERATIONS USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K 2653 §102 Final Rejection 56d Pending Apr 23, 2024
18627500 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESPONDING TO QUERIES RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 2163 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Apr 05, 2024
18626427 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE COMPOSITING VIA MACHINE LEARNING WANG, YUEHAN 2617 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Apr 04, 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
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 §102 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2024
18442144 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC SUMMARY GENERATION SHEN, SAMUEL 2179 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2024
18539906 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AI-BASED DIGITAL CONTENT SCALING VAN BRAMER, JOHN W 3622 §102 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Dec 14, 2023
18539396 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AI-BASED GENERATION AND DELIVERY OF NETWORK RESOURCES OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF 3622 §101 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2023
18496156 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXPLOITING USER FEEDBACK TO DERIVE TRENDING TERMS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF LERNER, MARTIN 2658 §112 Final Rejection 47d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18489163 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A PERSONALIZED USER INTERFACE USING GENERATIVE AI MERCADO, GABRIEL S 2171 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Oct 18, 2023
18480623 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING IMAGES OF LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY WEATHER CONDITIONS CASCHERA, ANTONIO A 2612 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Oct 04, 2023
18469874 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING USER CHANCE PREDICTIONS TO DETERMINE A USER CLASSIFICATION HOLLY, JOHN H 3696 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Sep 19, 2023
18467400 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOW RANK FIELD-WEIGHTED FACTORIZATION MACHINE AND APPLICATION THEREOF IN CONTENT RECOMMENDATION SPAR, ILANA L 3622 §101 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2023
18365949 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GROUP COMMUNICATION ACROSS ELECTRONIC MAIL USERS AND FEATURE PHONE USERS KELLEY, STEVEN SHAUN 2646 §103 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 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jul 26, 2023
18351939 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-PARAMETRIC BID-FLOOR OPTIMIZATION IN AUCTIONS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF VANDERHORST, MARIA VICTORIA 3621 §101 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jul 13, 2023
18336346 AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL MESSAGING CONTENT METHOD AND APPARATUS SKHOUN, HICHAM 2164 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2023
18335353 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING ALPHA AND BETA VALUES OF A CANDIDATE RELATIVE TO A CLASS HOANG, AMY P 2143 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Jun 15, 2023
18320350 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING LONG-TAIL TOPICS AND CONTENT AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF WU, TONY 2166 §112 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 19, 2023
18309785 NETWORK BASED PROVISION OF RENDERING AND HOSTING SYSTEMS JAMES, GREGORY MARK 3692 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Apr 29, 2023
18300923 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA INDEXING AND REPORTING LIN, ALLEN S 2153 §101 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Apr 14, 2023
18187940 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AND PROVIDING PRODUCT AVAILABILITY WALKER, MICHAEL JARED 3627 §101 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Mar 22, 2023
18183224 COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SAFEGUARDING PRIVACY TRUONG, LAWRENCE QUANG 2434 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2023
18081141 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FILTERING CONTENT MHEIR, ZUHEIR 2198 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2022
18075467 PRESENTING CONTENT OF AN APPLICATION CAO, PHUONG THAO 2164 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Dec 06, 2022
17818788 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK FOR DELIVERED CONTENT O'SHEA, BRENDAN S 3626 §103 Final Rejection 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
17450195 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE APPLICATION REQUESTS OF PHYSICAL FACILITIES LOFTIS, JOHNNA RONEE 3625 §101 Final Rejection 6d Pending Oct 07, 2021
17199884 COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING, RETAINING AND MAINTAINING NETWORK USER RESOURCE SESSIONS DHAKAD, RUPALI 2437 §103 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Mar 12, 2021
17138148 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TEXT STRUCTURING VIA LANGUAGE MODELS ORTIZ SANCHEZ, MICHAEL 2656 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Dec 30, 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 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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