Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
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
Agzen Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Computing & Software technology area. This prosecution activity is concentrated in 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The assignment to the Computing & Software area suggests that the pending matter involves algorithmic, data processing, or software-based innovations that are subject to specific examination guidelines for computer-implemented inventions.
ERDMAN, CHAD G is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending under review. Because this is the only pending matter, the company's prosecution success is currently linked to the specific findings and legal interpretations of this examiner. This singular focus allows the applicant to tailor their legal arguments specifically to the concerns raised by ERDMAN, CHAD G in the Computing & Software field.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technology is being evaluated within a specific software-related niche. With 1 pending office action, the administrative complexity is low, as there are no overlapping deadlines or conflicting examiner requirements. Practitioners should analyze the recent allowance trends of ERDMAN, CHAD G to better predict the likely trajectory of this application and prepare appropriate responses.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ERDMAN, CHAD G | 1 | 80.1% | +18.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17982866 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL OF SPRAYED LIQUID COVERAGE ON PLANT SURFACES | ERDMAN, CHAD G | 57d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17982866 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL OF SPRAYED LIQUID COVERAGE ON PLANT SURFACES | ERDMAN, CHAD G | 57d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2116 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17982866 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL OF SPRAYED LIQUID COVERAGE ON PLANT SURFACES | ERDMAN, CHAD G | 2116 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 57d | Pending | Nov 08, 2022 |
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