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
Ale Systems Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, KRISTYN A HALL, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. This represents a very narrow and focused presence at the USPTO, where the outcome of the company's current patent efforts rests entirely with a single individual.
The matter is being prosecuted within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current intellectual property activity is confined to one specific technical niche. With only 1 pending action and 1 distinct examiner, there are no other examiners or art units to consider in the current prosecution strategy, making the interaction with KRISTYN A HALL the sole focus.
For a practitioner, this profile means that the success of the 1 pending office action is dependent on the specific standards of that 1 distinct art unit. There is no opportunity to leverage insights from other cases, as this is the only pending matter. The prosecution must be handled with precision, as there are no other applications to provide a broader context for the company's technology.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HALL, KRISTYN A | 1 | 82.1% | -5.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19352799 | GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM MATERIALS | HALL, KRISTYN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19352799 | GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM MATERIALS | HALL, KRISTYN A | 3672 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialAle Systems Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kristyn A Hall has the most, with 1 of Ale Systems Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.