Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Notaro Michalos & Zaccaria P.C. - Ncr Atleos Pros.

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

6 pending office actions • 3 clients • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Notaro Michalos & Zaccaria P.C. - NCR Atleos Pros. operates in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The firm has managed 22 career applications and currently oversees 6 pending office actions. These figures indicate the firm's historical experience and its current level of engagement with the USPTO. This data provides a baseline for understanding the firm's presence in this sector.

The firm's resolved allowance rate is 14.29. On average, the firm receives 4.0 office actions per allowance. Practitioners can use this average to estimate the frequency of examiner interactions required to reach a grant for applications in this portfolio. These metrics offer an overview of the firm's prosecution results.

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

Quality Metrics (n=22 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

14.3%
Allowance Rate
n=22
-0.91σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=22
—
OAs to Allowance
n=1 (min 20)
—
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1 (min 20)
—
Time to Allowance
n=1 (min 20)
-16.7pp
Interview Lift
n=22
157.1%
RCE Rate
n=22
3.6%
Appeal Rate
n=22

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

—
§101 Overcome
n=7 (min 20)
—
§102 Overcome
n=14 (min 20)
—
§103 Overcome
n=16 (min 20)
—
§112 Overcome
n=8 (min 20)

Specialization & Scale

G06Q, G07F, G07D
Top CPC Subclasses
50%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=22
0
Practitioners
n=22
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=22 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
4
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
0
Due this week
2
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.

5
Hard (83%)
1
Medium (17%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (33%)
§103 only1 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (50%)

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
1
Communications
17% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
67% of docket
1
Business / Other
17% 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
SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD 1 9.0% +11.7%
CICCHINO, PATRICK D 1 80.6% +13.7%
MORRISON, THOMAS A 1 74.0% +30.3%
ALLISON, ANDRAE S 1 84.1% -15.5%
KWONG, CHO YIU 1 32.3% +4.3%
SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN 1 26.3% +14.2%

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18618964 MEDIA GUIDE AND GUIDING CICCHINO, PATRICK D 13d
18589136 FOREIGN OBJECT DETECTION ALLISON, ANDRAE S 14d
18956600 QUERY GENERATION SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD —
18618988 URGING ASSEMBLY AND URGING MORRISON, THOMAS A —
18082059 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BANKING SERVICES TO CRYPTOCURRENCY ACCOUNTS KWONG, CHO YIU —
17854726 CRYPTOCURRENCY COLD WALLET STORAGE DEVICE DISPENSER SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN —

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18618964 MEDIA GUIDE AND GUIDING CICCHINO, PATRICK D 13d
18956600 QUERY GENERATION SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD —
18618988 URGING ASSEMBLY AND URGING MORRISON, THOMAS A —
17854726 CRYPTOCURRENCY COLD WALLET STORAGE DEVICE DISPENSER SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN —

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36211
36191
26731
36931
36971

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18956600 QUERY GENERATION Cardtronics Usa, Inc. SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD 3621 §101§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 22, 2024
18618964 MEDIA GUIDE AND GUIDING Ncr Atleos Corporation CICCHINO, PATRICK D 3619 §102§103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Mar 27, 2024
18618988 URGING ASSEMBLY AND URGING Ncr Atleos Corporation MORRISON, THOMAS A §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 27, 2024
18589136 FOREIGN OBJECT DETECTION Ncr Atleos Corporation ALLISON, ANDRAE S 2673 §103§112 Final Rejection 14d Pending Feb 27, 2024
18082059 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BANKING SERVICES TO CRYPTOCURRENCY ACCOUNTS Ncr Corporation KWONG, CHO YIU 3693 §101§102 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 15, 2022
17854726 CRYPTOCURRENCY COLD WALLET STORAGE DEVICE DISPENSER Ncr Corporation SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN 3697 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 30, 2022

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