Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
12 pending office actions • 5 clients • 12 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP manages a portfolio of 3737 career applications, primarily focused on the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 73.05 percent across its historical filings. This success rate is achieved with an average of 3.87 office actions per allowance, indicating the level of examiner interaction required to secure patent rights.
Currently, the firm has 10 pending office actions to address within this technology sector. The 3737 career applications demonstrate the firm's history of engagement with the patent office. Practitioners can use the 3.87 average office actions per allowance to set expectations for prosecution timelines and resource allocation when working with this firm. The 73.05 percent resolved allowance rate provides a metric of historical performance. These data points offer a view of the firm's activity in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 8 (67%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHIU, HO T | 1 | 72.0% | -3.5% |
| BAIRD, EDWARD J | 1 | 49.2% | +67.3% |
| ALLADIN, AMBREEN A | 1 | 24.6% | +24.4% |
| MERCHANT, SHAHID R | 1 | 28.3% | +24.8% |
| RANKINS, WILLIAM E | 1 | 57.6% | +8.1% |
| KAZIMI, HANI M | 1 | 48.5% | +19.4% |
| NGUYEN, NGA B | 1 | 53.0% | +25.2% |
| KWONG, CHO YIU | 1 | 32.3% | +4.3% |
| FU, HAO | 1 | 50.1% | +24.8% |
| BARR, MARY EVANGELINE | 1 | 35.8% | +32.6% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10643885 | Systems and methods for documenting home care services | REYES, REGINALD R | 4d overdue |
| 13854516 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POOL RISK ASSESSMENT | KAZIMI, HANI M | 3d overdue |
| 13854350 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR PROVIDING MULTIPLE INCOME START DATES FOR ANNUITIES | RANKINS, WILLIAM E | 7d |
| 11866815 | System and Method For Providing A Deferred Premium Annuity | KWONG, CHO YIU | 9d |
| 11556396 | S/M FOR PROVIDING AN OPTION TO CONVERT A PORTFOLIO OF ASSETS INTO A GUARANTEED INCOME FLOW AT A FUTURE DATE | FU, HAO | 56d |
| 14821967 | Systems and Methods for Providing a Benefit Product with Periodic Guaranteed Income | BAIRD, EDWARD J | — |
| 14450580 | System and Method for Imbedding a Defined Benefit in a Defined Contribution Plan | ALLADIN, AMBREEN A | — |
| 14057381 | Systems and Methods for Performing Workflow | MERCHANT, SHAHID R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13854516 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POOL RISK ASSESSMENT | KAZIMI, HANI M | 3d overdue |
| 11556396 | S/M FOR PROVIDING AN OPTION TO CONVERT A PORTFOLIO OF ASSETS INTO A GUARANTEED INCOME FLOW AT A FUTURE DATE | FU, HAO | 56d |
| 14821967 | Systems and Methods for Providing a Benefit Product with Periodic Guaranteed Income | BAIRD, EDWARD J | — |
| 14450580 | System and Method for Imbedding a Defined Benefit in a Defined Contribution Plan | ALLADIN, AMBREEN A | — |
| 14057381 | Systems and Methods for Performing Workflow | MERCHANT, SHAHID R | — |
| 12144118 | Method and system for portable retirement investment | NGUYEN, NGA B | — |
| 10777634 | Method and system for electronically routing and processing information | BARR, MARY EVANGELINE | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| GENWORTH HOLDINGS, INC. | 5 |
| Genworth Financial, Inc. | 3 |
| GE Financial Assurance Holdings, Inc. | 2 |
| American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants | 1 |
| GE Financial Holdings Assurance | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3691 | 2 |
| 3684 | 2 |
| 3692 | 1 |
| 3600 | 1 |
| 3694 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 3693 | 1 |
| 3695 | 1 |
| 3682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19199764 | DATA-DRIVEN, RISK AND ACTIVITY-BASED DYNAMIC AUDIT APPLICATION AND METHOD | American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants | SHIU, HO T | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 | |
| 14821967 | Systems and Methods for Providing a Benefit Product with Periodic Guaranteed Income | Genworth Holdings, Inc. | BAIRD, EDWARD J | 3692 | §101Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2015 |
| 14450580 | System and Method for Imbedding a Defined Benefit in a Defined Contribution Plan | Genworth Holdings, Inc. | ALLADIN, AMBREEN A | 3691 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2014 |
| 14057381 | Systems and Methods for Performing Workflow | Genworth Holdings, Inc. | MERCHANT, SHAHID R | 3600 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2013 |
| 13854350 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR PROVIDING MULTIPLE INCOME START DATES FOR ANNUITIES | Genworth Holdings, Inc. | RANKINS, WILLIAM E | 3694 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Apr 01, 2013 |
| 13854516 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POOL RISK ASSESSMENT | Genworth Holdings, Inc. | KAZIMI, HANI M | 3691 | §101 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 01, 2013 |
| 12144118 | Method and system for portable retirement investment | GE Financial Assurance Holdings, Inc. | NGUYEN, NGA B | 3625 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2008 |
| 11866815 | System and Method For Providing A Deferred Premium Annuity | Genworth Financial, Inc. | KWONG, CHO YIU | 3693 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Oct 03, 2007 |
| 11556396 | S/M FOR PROVIDING AN OPTION TO CONVERT A PORTFOLIO OF ASSETS INTO A GUARANTEED INCOME FLOW AT A FUTURE DATE | Genworth Financial, Inc. | FU, HAO | 3695 | §101 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Nov 03, 2006 |
| 10777634 | Method and system for electronically routing and processing information | Genworth Financial Inc. | BARR, MARY EVANGELINE | 3682 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2004 |
| 10643885 | Systems and methods for documenting home care services | GE Financial Assurance Holdings, Inc. | REYES, REGINALD R | 3684 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Aug 20, 2003 |
| 10028284 | System and method for pricing of a financial product or service using a waterfall tool | GE Financial Holdings Assurance | KHATTAR, RAJESH | 3684 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2001 |
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