Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 2 clients • 7 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
PATTERSON + SHERIDAN, L.L.P. - CIRCLE has achieved a perfect resolved allowance rate pct of 100.0 in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This result is based on 32 career applications, showing a flawless record of securing grants for this group. The firm reaches these allowances with an avg office actions per allowance of 2.0, suggesting a highly efficient prosecution process.
Currently, there are 8 pending office actions for this profile. These 8 pending office actions follow the successful resolution of the career applications already processed. The avg office actions per allowance of 2.0 indicates that the firm typically resolves issues quickly compared to other groups. Maintaining a 100.0 resolved allowance rate pct across 32 career applications is a significant metric for practitioners to consider when evaluating this group's performance in mechanical and e-commerce systems.
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.
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 | 4 (44%) |
| §103 only | 2 (22%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (11%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, CLAY C | 2 | 54.7% | +57.5% |
| HYDER, MD SAKIB | 2 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| IMMANUEL, ILSE I | 1 | 27.2% | +27.5% |
| KING, DAVIDA LEE | 1 | 35.6% | +36.4% |
| KANERVO, VIRPI H | 1 | 47.5% | +47.6% |
| NGUYEN, PHILLIP H | 1 | 90.6% | +11.6% |
| MILLER, JAMES H | 1 | 40.9% | +36.5% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18332490 | DECOUPLING NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE TOKENS IN BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTIONS | LEE, CLAY C | 17d overdue |
| 19534968 | DECOUPLING NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE TOKENS IN BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTIONS | LEE, CLAY C | — |
| 19534895 | MULTI-BLOCKCHAIN TOKEN REBALANCER | IMMANUEL, ILSE I | — |
| 18946690 | FAST CROSS-DOMAIN TRANSACTION PROCESSING IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS | KANERVO, VIRPI H | — |
| 18792378 | PLATFORM CONTROLLED WALLETS IN BLOCKCHAIN SYSTEMS | HYDER, MD SAKIB | — |
| 18792389 | END-USER CONTROLLED WALLETS IN BLOCKCHAIN SYSTEMS | HYDER, MD SAKIB | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18332490 | DECOUPLING NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE TOKENS IN BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTIONS | LEE, CLAY C | 17d overdue |
| 18346073 | RECOVERABLE TRANSACTIONS IN BLOCKCHAIN SYSTEMS VIA WRAPPED RECOVERABLE TOKENS | MILLER, JAMES H | 61d |
| 19534968 | DECOUPLING NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE TOKENS IN BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTIONS | LEE, CLAY C | — |
| 19534895 | MULTI-BLOCKCHAIN TOKEN REBALANCER | IMMANUEL, ILSE I | — |
| 19534911 | BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTION REBROADCAST | KING, DAVIDA LEE | — |
| 18946690 | FAST CROSS-DOMAIN TRANSACTION PROCESSING IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS | KANERVO, VIRPI H | — |
| 18808838 | SMART CONTRACT DISTRIBUTION INFRASTRUCTURE | NGUYEN, PHILLIP H | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| CIRCLE INTERNET GROUP, INC. | 6 |
| Circle Internet Financial, LLC | 3 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3699 | 4 |
| 3698 | 2 |
| 3691 | 1 |
| 3694 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19534968 | DECOUPLING NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE TOKENS IN BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTIONS | Circle Internet Group, Inc. | LEE, CLAY C | 3699 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2026 |
| 19534895 | MULTI-BLOCKCHAIN TOKEN REBALANCER | Circle Internet Group, Inc. | IMMANUEL, ILSE I | 3699 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2026 |
| 19534911 | BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTION REBROADCAST | Circle Internet Group, Inc. | KING, DAVIDA LEE | 3699 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2026 |
| 18946690 | FAST CROSS-DOMAIN TRANSACTION PROCESSING IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS | Circle Internet Financial, LLC | KANERVO, VIRPI H | 3691 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18808838 | SMART CONTRACT DISTRIBUTION INFRASTRUCTURE | Circle Internet Group, Inc. | NGUYEN, PHILLIP H | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 18332490 | DECOUPLING NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE TOKENS IN BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTIONS | Circle Internet Financial Limited | LEE, CLAY C | 3699 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
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