Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Barnes & Thornburg LLP (Pnc)

6 pending office actions • 1 client • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (2)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
§102 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
100% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
POE, KEVIN T 1 39.6% +16.1%
VIG, NARESH 1 36.9% +43.9%
OJIAKU, CHIKAODINAKA 1 45.6% +8.7%
IDIAKE, VINCENT I 1 70.5% +20.9%
SCHWARZENBERG, PAUL 1 61.9% +28.4%
HUDSON, MARLA LAVETTE 1 56.4% +25.7%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18805688 TECHNOLOGIES FOR MANAGING SMART CONTRACTS IDIAKE, VINCENT I 23d overdue
18544521 TECHNOLOGIES FOR EFFICIENTLY DETERMINING CREDIT LOSS SENSITIVITY TO MACROECONOMIC IMPACTS HUDSON, MARLA LAVETTE 29d
18939821 Technologies for Predictive Management of Customer Account Balance Attrition VIG, NARESH 53d
18603447 TECHNOLOGIES FOR EFFICIENTLY PROVIDING INSIGHTS FROM DATA SETS SCHWARZENBERG, PAUL 68d
19034725 Technologies for Real-Time Payments Monitoring POE, KEVIN T 75d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
THE PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC. 6

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36921
36221
36961
36981
36951
36941

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19034725 Technologies for Real-Time Payments Monitoring The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. POE, KEVIN T 3692 §102 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Jan 23, 2025
18939821 Technologies for Predictive Management of Customer Account Balance Attrition The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. VIG, NARESH 3622 §103 Final Rejection 53d Pending Nov 07, 2024
18939976 Technologies for Prediction of Recurring Transactions The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. OJIAKU, CHIKAODINAKA 3696 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2024
18805688 TECHNOLOGIES FOR MANAGING SMART CONTRACTS The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. IDIAKE, VINCENT I 3698 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Aug 15, 2024
18603447 TECHNOLOGIES FOR EFFICIENTLY PROVIDING INSIGHTS FROM DATA SETS The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. SCHWARZENBERG, PAUL 3695 §103 Final Rejection 68d Pending Mar 13, 2024
18544521 TECHNOLOGIES FOR EFFICIENTLY DETERMINING CREDIT LOSS SENSITIVITY TO MACROECONOMIC IMPACTS The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. HUDSON, MARLA LAVETTE 3694 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Dec 19, 2023

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