Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
3D Bridge Solutions Inc. has 1 pending office action currently active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This 1 action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, HANKS, BENJAMIN L. As the only examiner involved, HANKS, BENJAMIN L is responsible for the pending office action, which constitutes the entire active portfolio for the company.
The prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical classification for the company's current filing. With only pending office actions and an individual examiner, there is no opportunity for comparing different examiner behaviors or art unit trends within this data set. The busiest examiner, HANKS, BENJAMIN L, manages the only point of contact for the company's current USPTO engagement. This profile suggests a targeted approach to intellectual property. Practitioners should focus on the specific practices of the distinct art unit and the individual tendencies of the assigned examiner to navigate the company's current patenting process. The concentration of the entire portfolio under one examiner and one art unit simplifies the administrative tracking of the company's intellectual property assets.
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 | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANKS, BENJAMIN L | 1 | 21.4% | +30.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19317553 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MANAGING MEDICAL APPLICATIONS AND MEDICAL COMPUTER ASSIGNMENTS USING AN EXTERNAL COMPUTER | HANKS, BENJAMIN L | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19317553 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MANAGING MEDICAL APPLICATIONS AND MEDICAL COMPUTER ASSIGNMENTS USING AN EXTERNAL COMPUTER | HANKS, BENJAMIN L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3684 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19317553 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MANAGING MEDICAL APPLICATIONS AND MEDICAL COMPUTER ASSIGNMENTS USING AN EXTERNAL COMPUTER | HANKS, BENJAMIN L | 3684 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2025 |
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