Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
8 pending office actions • 2 clients • 8 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 4 (50%) |
| §112 only | 2 (25%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMMANUEL, ILSE I | 1 | 24.1% | +26.4% |
| ROSEN, ELIZABETH H | 1 | 46.4% | +51.7% |
| SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL | 1 | 50.6% | +45.2% |
| BARGEON, BRITTANY E | 1 | 44.9% | +34.6% |
| AKINTOLA, OLABODE | 1 | 50.3% | +8.9% |
| LIU, CHIA-YI | 1 | 27.0% | +21.1% |
| POLLOCK, GREGORY A | 1 | 11.1% | +12.6% |
| LUDWIG, PETER L | 1 | 35.4% | +23.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18823972 | HOSTING E-COMMERCE BASED ON CLOUD COMPUTING | IMMANUEL, ILSE I | 53d overdue |
| 15796174 | System and method for targeted marketing and consumer resource management | LIU, CHIA-YI | 4d overdue |
| 14213693 | System and Method for Selecting, Distributing, Redeeming, and Reconciling Digital Offers | POLLOCK, GREGORY A | 40d |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18823972 | HOSTING E-COMMERCE BASED ON CLOUD COMPUTING | IMMANUEL, ILSE I | 53d overdue |
| 18241324 | CLIENT CUSTOMIZED VIRTUAL OR PHYSICAL CARD FOR USE WITH SELECTED MERCHANTS | ROSEN, ELIZABETH H | 4d overdue |
| 15796174 | System and method for targeted marketing and consumer resource management | LIU, CHIA-YI | 4d overdue |
| 18107111 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING INTELLIGENT CODES IN CONJUNCTION WITH NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS | SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL | 20d |
| 17994512 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING INTELLIGENT CODES IN CONJUNCTION WITH STORED-VALUE CARDS | BARGEON, BRITTANY E | 29d |
| 14213693 | System and Method for Selecting, Distributing, Redeeming, and Reconciling Digital Offers | POLLOCK, GREGORY A | 40d |
| 13799624 | System and Method for Targeted Marketing and Consumer Resource Management | LUDWIG, PETER L | 56d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| BLACKHAWK NETWORK, INC. | 7 |
| Blackhawk Engagement Solutions (DE), Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3691 | 2 |
| 3699 | 1 |
| 3693 | 1 |
| 3698 | 1 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| 3692 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18823972 | HOSTING E-COMMERCE BASED ON CLOUD COMPUTING | Blackhawk Engagement Solutions (De), Inc. | IMMANUEL, ILSE I | 3699 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 53d overdue | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18241324 | CLIENT CUSTOMIZED VIRTUAL OR PHYSICAL CARD FOR USE WITH SELECTED MERCHANTS | BLACKHAWK NETWORK, INC. | ROSEN, ELIZABETH H | 3693 | Other | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18107111 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING INTELLIGENT CODES IN CONJUNCTION WITH NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS | BLACKHAWK NETWORK, INC. | SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL | 3698 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Feb 08, 2023 |
| 17994512 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING INTELLIGENT CODES IN CONJUNCTION WITH STORED-VALUE CARDS | BLACKHAWK NETWORK, INC. | BARGEON, BRITTANY E | 3688 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
| 17740433 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RELOADING PREPAID CARD | BLACKHAWK NETWORK, INC. | AKINTOLA, OLABODE | 3691 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | May 10, 2022 |
| 15796174 | System and method for targeted marketing and consumer resource management | BLACKHAWK NETWORK, INC. | LIU, CHIA-YI | 3692 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2017 |
| 14213693 | System and Method for Selecting, Distributing, Redeeming, and Reconciling Digital Offers | BLACKHAWK NETWORK, INC. | POLLOCK, GREGORY A | 3691 | §112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Mar 14, 2014 |
| 13799624 | System and Method for Targeted Marketing and Consumer Resource Management | BLACKHAWK NETWORK, INC. | LUDWIG, PETER L | 3627 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Mar 13, 2013 |
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