Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP - Intuit

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

11 pending office actions • 3 clients • 11 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 46 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP - Intuit handles Computing & Software matters. The firm has 34859 career applications and an 85.4 percent resolved allowance rate. This specific client profile currently has 12 pending office actions. The firm averages 3.06 office actions per allowance.

The 12 pending office actions are a subset of the 34859 career applications. The 85.4 percent allowance rate and 3.06 average office actions per allowance characterize the firm's prosecution history in the Computing & Software sector.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=34859 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.4%
Allowance Rate
n=34859
+0.56σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=34859
3.1
OAs to Allowance
n=21606
-0.29σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=21606
1004 days
Time to Allowance
n=21606
+7.1pp
Interview Lift
n=34859
22.2%
RCE Rate
n=34859
3.8%
Appeal Rate
n=34859

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

67.7%
§101 Overcome
n=2642
77.9%
§102 Overcome
n=9359
78.1%
§103 Overcome
n=15075
80.5%
§112 Overcome
n=9655

Specialization & Scale

G06F, A61B, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
8%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=34859
74
Practitioners
n=34859
471.1
Apps / Practitioner
n=34859

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

9
Hard (82%)
2
Medium (18%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (27%)
§101 + other5 (45%)
§103 only2 (18%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
36% of docket
2
Communications
18% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
18% of docket
3
Business / Other
27% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CIRNU, ALEXANDRU 1 42.7% +21.3%
SERRAGUARD, SEAN ERIN 1 69.1% +34.1%
MORRISON, JAY A 1 81.0% +23.3%
DAYE, CHELCIE L 1 76.6% +16.0%
UNDERWOOD, BAKARI 1 68.1% +17.9%
SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD 1 58.7% +44.3%
VINCENT, DAVID ROBERT 1 80.4% +4.0%
ANNIS, PETER THOMAS 1 — —
COLEMAN, PAUL 1 65.4% +47.4%
PENG, STEVEN 1 — —

Hard Cases (9)

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
18763842 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIP CLASSIFICATION UNDERWOOD, BAKARI 5d
18744434 SMART DISPATCHER IN A COMPOSITE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) SYSTEM SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD 9d
19372179 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING RESPONSES, RATINGS, AND FEEDBACK OF SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING CAMPAIGNS CIRNU, ALEXANDRU —
18930938 SYNTHETIC KNOWLEDGE INGESTION FOR ENHANCING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL PERFORMANCE SERRAGUARD, SEAN ERIN —
18791185 ADAPTIVE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL UTILIZING SEMANTIC AND LEXICAL SCORING MORRISON, JAY A —
18592377 ASSISTIVE GENERATIVE AI-BASED RESPONSES VINCENT, DAVID ROBERT —
18497884 AUTOMIZED GENERATION OF INSIGHTFUL AND CONFIDENT DATA INSIGHTS ANNIS, PETER THOMAS —
18495172 WORKFLOW ASSISTANT WITH GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PENG, STEVEN —

Interview Candidates (7)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18763842 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIP CLASSIFICATION UNDERWOOD, BAKARI 5d
18744434 SMART DISPATCHER IN A COMPOSITE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) SYSTEM SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD 9d
19372179 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING RESPONSES, RATINGS, AND FEEDBACK OF SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING CAMPAIGNS CIRNU, ALEXANDRU —
18930938 SYNTHETIC KNOWLEDGE INGESTION FOR ENHANCING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL PERFORMANCE SERRAGUARD, SEAN ERIN —
18791185 ADAPTIVE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL UTILIZING SEMANTIC AND LEXICAL SCORING MORRISON, JAY A —
18782876 CONTEXT-AWARE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL DAYE, CHELCIE L —
18496496 DOMAIN-SPECIFIC PROMPT PROCESSING AND ANSWERING VIA LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PLANNERS COLEMAN, PAUL —

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
INTUIT INC. 7
Intuit 3
Credit Karma 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
41002
36221
26571
21511
21611
36631
26581
21251
21461

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19372179 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING RESPONSES, RATINGS, AND FEEDBACK OF SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING CAMPAIGNS Intuit Inc. CIRNU, ALEXANDRU 3622 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 28, 2025
18930938 SYNTHETIC KNOWLEDGE INGESTION FOR ENHANCING LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL PERFORMANCE Intuit Inc. SERRAGUARD, SEAN ERIN 2657 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 29, 2024
18791185 ADAPTIVE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL UTILIZING SEMANTIC AND LEXICAL SCORING Intuit Inc. MORRISON, JAY A 2151 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 31, 2024
18782876 CONTEXT-AWARE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL Intuit, Inc. DAYE, CHELCIE L 2161 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 24, 2024
18763842 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIP CLASSIFICATION Credit Karma, LLC UNDERWOOD, BAKARI 3663 §101§102DP Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jul 03, 2024
18744434 SMART DISPATCHER IN A COMPOSITE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) SYSTEM Intuit, Inc. SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD 2658 §101§103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Jun 14, 2024
18592377 ASSISTIVE GENERATIVE AI-BASED RESPONSES Intuit, Inc. VINCENT, DAVID ROBERT §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 29, 2024
18497884 AUTOMIZED GENERATION OF INSIGHTFUL AND CONFIDENT DATA INSIGHTS Intuit, Inc. ANNIS, PETER THOMAS 4100 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 30, 2023
18496496 DOMAIN-SPECIFIC PROMPT PROCESSING AND ANSWERING VIA LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PLANNERS Intuit, Inc. COLEMAN, PAUL 4100 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 27, 2023
18495172 WORKFLOW ASSISTANT WITH GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Intuit, Inc. PENG, STEVEN 2125 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 26, 2023
18372660 EXPERT FEEDBACK LOOP FOR RESOLVING AMBIGUITY Intuit, Inc. ROY, SANCHITA 2146 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 25, 2023

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