Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
7980302 Canada Inc. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, showing that the company's innovations are being reviewed by two different specialized groups at the USPTO. The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, meaning that every pending action is being handled by a different individual.
The busiest examiner, TAN, OLIVER E, is responsible for only 1 pending office action, which is consistent with the total of 3 distinct examiners for 3 actions. This lack of examiner concentration means that the company cannot rely on a single examiner's history to influence multiple cases. Instead, each of the 3 pending office actions must be managed as an independent interaction with a unique examiner.
With 2 distinct art units involved, the company's 3 pending actions are subject to the specific procedural trends of different divisions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. The fact that TAN, OLIVER E and the other examiners each hold only 1 action highlights a decentralized prosecution environment. This requires the applicant to tailor their strategy to 3 different examiner perspectives to resolve the 3 pending office actions.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAN, OLIVER E | 1 | 73.2% | +10.1% |
| SHAIKH, FARIS ASIM | 1 | 69.5% | +19.5% |
| MOLINA, NIKKI MARIE M | 1 | 78.4% | +4.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19220082 | Using ISA System to Effect Driver Compliance with Fleet Policy | TAN, OLIVER E | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18977923 | SIMULATING BRAKING WHEN SPEEDING ON CRUISE CONTROL TO FACILITATE USE OF ISA SYSTEM | SHAIKH, FARIS ASIM | 19d |
| 19220082 | Using ISA System to Effect Driver Compliance with Fleet Policy | TAN, OLIVER E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3668 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19220082 | Using ISA System to Effect Driver Compliance with Fleet Policy | TAN, OLIVER E | — | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 18977923 | SIMULATING BRAKING WHEN SPEEDING ON CRUISE CONTROL TO FACILITATE USE OF ISA SYSTEM | SHAIKH, FARIS ASIM | 3668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18428235 | IMPLEMENTING CONTEXTUAL SPEED LIMITS IN ISA SYSTEM HAVING BOTH POSITIONING AND SITUATIONAL-AWARE SUBSYSTEMS | MOLINA, NIKKI MARIE M | 3662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
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