Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Affle 3I Limited has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Despite having multiple pending matters, the prosecution is centralized within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the company's current patent applications are closely related in subject matter and are being evaluated by the same technical group. Centralization in this manner can lead to more predictable outcomes if the company successfully aligns its claims with the specific standards of that unit.
SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing the 2 pending office actions. Because 1 distinct examiner is handling the entire pending workload, the company may experience consistency in the types of rejections or requirements issued. Practitioners can leverage this concentration by developing a unified response strategy that addresses the specific tendencies of this single official across the pending matters. Managing the workload with 1 distinct examiner allows for a more efficient use of legal resources compared to portfolios where the workload is split among different officials.
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 only | 1 (50%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD | 2 | 9.0% | +11.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16399637 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IP ADDRESS TRAFFIC BASED DETECTION OF FRAUD | SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD | 6d |
| 16399775 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTION OF ADVERTISEMENT FRAUD DATA TO THIRD PARTIES | SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD | 62d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16399637 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IP ADDRESS TRAFFIC BASED DETECTION OF FRAUD | SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD | 6d |
| 16399775 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTION OF ADVERTISEMENT FRAUD DATA TO THIRD PARTIES | SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD | 62d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3621 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16399775 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTION OF ADVERTISEMENT FRAUD DATA TO THIRD PARTIES | SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD | 3621 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Apr 30, 2019 |
| 16399637 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IP ADDRESS TRAFFIC BASED DETECTION OF FRAUD | SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD | 3621 | §101 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Apr 30, 2019 |
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