Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 2 clients • 4 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
PATTERSON + SHERIDAN, L.L.P. - CIRCLE has 6 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and 32 career applications. The active workload is limited in absolute terms but represents a notable portion of the reported application base.
The resolved allowance rate is 100.0%, with an average of 2.0 office actions per allowance. Every reported resolved application reached allowance, while allowed matters involved an average of two office actions. The profile therefore combines a complete reported allowance outcome with a defined examination-response burden.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 + other | 3 (60%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HYDER, MD SAKIB | 2 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| NGUYEN, PHILLIP H | 1 | 90.7% | +11.5% |
| LOZA, JANICE JOMARIE | 1 | 11.8% | +33.3% |
| MILLER, JAMES H | 1 | 41.1% | +36.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18792389 | END-USER CONTROLLED WALLETS IN BLOCKCHAIN SYSTEMS | HYDER, MD SAKIB | — |
| 18792378 | PLATFORM CONTROLLED WALLETS IN BLOCKCHAIN SYSTEMS | HYDER, MD SAKIB | — |
| 18346081 | EXECUTING TRANSACTIONS IN BLOCKCHAIN SYSTEMS VIA TOKEN POOLS WITH CONVERTIBLE TOKENS | LOZA, JANICE JOMARIE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18346073 | RECOVERABLE TRANSACTIONS IN BLOCKCHAIN SYSTEMS VIA WRAPPED RECOVERABLE TOKENS | MILLER, JAMES H | 61d |
| 18808838 | SMART CONTRACT DISTRIBUTION INFRASTRUCTURE | NGUYEN, PHILLIP H | — |
| 18346081 | EXECUTING TRANSACTIONS IN BLOCKCHAIN SYSTEMS VIA TOKEN POOLS WITH CONVERTIBLE TOKENS | LOZA, JANICE JOMARIE | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| CIRCLE INTERNET GROUP, INC. | 3 |
| Circle Internet Financial, LLC | 2 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3698 | 3 |
| 2191 | 1 |
| 3694 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18808838 | SMART CONTRACT DISTRIBUTION INFRASTRUCTURE | Circle Internet Group, Inc. | NGUYEN, PHILLIP H | 2191 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18792389 | END-USER CONTROLLED WALLETS IN BLOCKCHAIN SYSTEMS | Circle Internet Group, Inc. | HYDER, MD SAKIB | 3698 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18792378 | PLATFORM CONTROLLED WALLETS IN BLOCKCHAIN SYSTEMS | Circle Internet Group, Inc. | HYDER, MD SAKIB | 3698 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18346081 | EXECUTING TRANSACTIONS IN BLOCKCHAIN SYSTEMS VIA TOKEN POOLS WITH CONVERTIBLE TOKENS | Circle Internet Financial Limited | LOZA, JANICE JOMARIE | 3698 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18346073 | RECOVERABLE TRANSACTIONS IN BLOCKCHAIN SYSTEMS VIA WRAPPED RECOVERABLE TOKENS | Circle Internet Financial Limited | MILLER, JAMES H | 3694 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial100.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Patterson + Sheridan, L.L.P. - Circle were allowed, across 32 applications in USPTO records.
2.00 office actions per allowed application on average.
5 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 2 clients, before 4 examiners in 3 art units.
