Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
16 pending office actions • 9 clients • 16 examiners • 16 art units • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Blank Rome LLP - Houston General works in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and has 17 pending office actions. The profile associates this work with 23423 career applications, giving the practice a substantial recorded prosecution history.
Its resolved allowance rate is 83.42%, and the average number of office actions per allowance is 3.24. These figures provide a structured basis for evaluating the Houston practice's current workload alongside its reported historical outcomes and typical office-action activity.
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.
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.
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 (6%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (12%) |
| §103 only | 9 (56%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (6%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIRJHAR, NASIM NAZRUL | 1 | 74.6% | +18.8% |
| LE, THANH T | 1 | 83.3% | +32.5% |
| VUONG, CAO DANG | 1 | 69.8% | +23.2% |
| SHUI, MING | 1 | 58.4% | +49.7% |
| HATCHER, DEIRDRE D | 1 | 28.1% | +24.2% |
| KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | 1 | 71.0% | +38.5% |
| CHACKO, JOE | 1 | 75.3% | +28.3% |
| LOGAN, KYLE O | 1 | 87.4% | +9.4% |
| KING, DAVIDA LEE | 1 | 34.0% | +38.3% |
| FIGG, TRAVIS M | 1 | 61.4% | +17.2% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19267224 | KEY GENERATION IN TRUSTED EXECUTION ENVIRONMENTS | LE, THANH T | — |
| 18805595 | Vehicle Vending Machine | LOGAN, KYLE O | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17653034 | MOVING A DIRECTION OF GAZE OF AN AVATAR | PATEL, SHIVANG I | 9d |
| 18770190 | TOKEN TRANSACTION AGGREGATOR FOR MINTING TOKENS ON A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK | KING, DAVIDA LEE | 28d |
| 18929502 | METHOD, SERVER, AND NON-TRANSITORY PROCESSOR READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ONLINE TRANSACTION | SHUI, MING | — |
| 18927601 | Interactive Web-Based Workforce Management System Assisted with Artificial Intelligence | HATCHER, DEIRDRE D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18770190 | TOKEN TRANSACTION AGGREGATOR FOR MINTING TOKENS ON A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK | KING, DAVIDA LEE | 28d |
| 19270251 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AND/OR PLAYING BACK CONTENT | NIRJHAR, NASIM NAZRUL | — |
| 19267224 | KEY GENERATION IN TRUSTED EXECUTION ENVIRONMENTS | LE, THANH T | — |
| 19198387 | CONTEXT-AWARE AUTOMATED FEATURE ENGINEERING USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS | VUONG, CAO DANG | — |
| 18929502 | METHOD, SERVER, AND NON-TRANSITORY PROCESSOR READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ONLINE TRANSACTION | SHUI, MING | — |
| 18927601 | Interactive Web-Based Workforce Management System Assisted with Artificial Intelligence | HATCHER, DEIRDRE D | — |
| 18896716 | ANONYMOUS DEVICE FINGERPRINTING FOR DEVICE VERIFICATION | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | — |
| 18822920 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A CROSS-SITE OPT-IN NETWORK | CHACKO, JOE | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Carvana | 5 |
| Magic Labs, Inc. | 3 |
| Cavendish Capital | 2 |
| Nevermind Capital LLC | 1 |
| Prior Labs GmbH | 1 |
| Clarkson Aerospace Corp. | 1 |
| Very Great Inc. | 1 |
| True Meeting Inc. | 1 |
| Replit, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2896 | 1 |
| 2495 | 1 |
| 2153 | 1 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 2492 | 1 |
| 2457 | 1 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| 3699 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19270251 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AND/OR PLAYING BACK CONTENT | Nevermind Capital LLC | NIRJHAR, NASIM NAZRUL | 2896 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 19267224 | KEY GENERATION IN TRUSTED EXECUTION ENVIRONMENTS | Magic Labs, Inc. | LE, THANH T | 2495 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 19198387 | CONTEXT-AWARE AUTOMATED FEATURE ENGINEERING USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS | Prior Labs GmbH | VUONG, CAO DANG | 2153 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
| 18929502 | METHOD, SERVER, AND NON-TRANSITORY PROCESSOR READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ONLINE TRANSACTION | Carvana, LLC | SHUI, MING | 3688 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18927601 | Interactive Web-Based Workforce Management System Assisted with Artificial Intelligence | Clarkson Aerospace Corp. | HATCHER, DEIRDRE D | 3625 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18896716 | ANONYMOUS DEVICE FINGERPRINTING FOR DEVICE VERIFICATION | Magic Labs, Inc. | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | 2492 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18822920 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A CROSS-SITE OPT-IN NETWORK | Carvana, LLC | CHACKO, JOE | 2457 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18805595 | Vehicle Vending Machine | Carvana, LLC | LOGAN, KYLE O | 3655 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18770190 | TOKEN TRANSACTION AGGREGATOR FOR MINTING TOKENS ON A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK | Magic Labs, Inc. | KING, DAVIDA LEE | 3699 | §101 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18583014 | REUSABLE SILICONE WRAPS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | Very Great Inc. | FIGG, TRAVIS M | 1783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
| 18536548 | Vehicle Vending Machine With Fire Protection System | Carvana, LLC | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 3752 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18299044 | UPDATING A MODEL OF A PARTICIPANT OF A THREE DIMENSIONAL VIDEO CONFERENCE CALL | True Meeting Inc. | NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH | 2691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
| 18150049 | Multiplayer Debugger | Replit, Inc. | BERMAN, STEPHEN DAVID | 2192 | §103 | Final Rejection | 155d overdue | Pending | Jan 04, 2023 |
| 18056252 | GENERATING AN AVATAR HAVING EXPRESSIONS THAT MIMICS EXPRESSIONS OF A PERSON | Cavendish Capital LLC | SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D | 2613 | §103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
| 17653034 | MOVING A DIRECTION OF GAZE OF AN AVATAR | Cavendish Capital LLC | PATEL, SHIVANG I | 2615 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Mar 01, 2022 |
| 17521806 | Systems and Methods for Personalization for Digital Displayed Media | Carvana, LLC | BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | 2171 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2021 |
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Start Free Trial83.4% of resolved applications prosecuted by Blank Rome LLP - Houston General were allowed, across 23,423 applications in USPTO records.
3.24 office actions per allowed application on average.
16 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 9 clients, before 16 examiners in 16 art units.
