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
Affinity Development Group Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company's current prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the company's active patent matters are concentrated in a single administrative area of the patent office. Such a focused profile can lead to more consistent technical feedback, as the review process is not split between different examiners or technical groups.
ELCHANTI, TAREK is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This figure matches the total of 1 pending office action for the portfolio. The use of 1 distinct art unit indicates that all current examination activity is being handled by this individual examiner. This concentration allows the applicant to focus their legal arguments on the specific technical perspective of 1 distinct examiner, which can lead to a more efficient prosecution process within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELCHANTI, TAREK | 1 | 50.8% | +36.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17112524 | DYNAMIC GIFT CARD SYSTEM | ELCHANTI, TAREK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17112524 | DYNAMIC GIFT CARD SYSTEM | ELCHANTI, TAREK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3621 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17112524 | DYNAMIC GIFT CARD SYSTEM | ELCHANTI, TAREK | 3621 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialAffinity Development Group Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Tarek Elchanti has the most, with 1 of Affinity Development Group Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
