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
545490 Pty Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company's current prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This indicates that the applicant's active patent work is highly concentrated in one specific area of the patent office's administrative structure.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is Zhang, Duan, who is currently managing the single pending office action. Because this is the only active matter for the company, Zhang, Duan is the sole examiner the applicant is currently working with. For a patent practitioner, this means that the prosecution process is very direct, with all communication focused on a single examiner and a single art unit.
The Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area covers a wide range of topics, but the company's current focus is limited to a single pending office action. This allows for a concentrated legal strategy without the need to manage multiple competing deadlines or different examiner styles. The single art unit involved further simplifies the procedural landscape for the applicant.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, DUAN | 1 | 60.8% | +18.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18684424 | A STORED VALUE CARD VALIDATION SYSTEM | ZHANG, DUAN | 5d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3699 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18684424 | A STORED VALUE CARD VALIDATION SYSTEM | ZHANG, DUAN | 3699 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
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