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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Algocare Corporation is currently addressing 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused prosecution state. The busiest examiner for the company is COLLINS, MICHAEL, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. This means that all of the company's current pending actions are under the review of this specific individual within a single administrative unit.
The concentration of 1 pending action in 1 art unit suggests that the company's current legal efforts are specialized. Because there is only 1 examiner involved, the prosecution outcome for the entire pending portfolio depends on a single relationship. This streamlined structure simplifies docketing but increases the impact of an individual examiner's discretion on the company's immediate patent goals. Practitioners should focus their strategy on the specific tendencies of this 1 examiner to navigate the single pending action effectively.
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 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLLINS, MICHAEL | 1 | 70.8% | +23.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555185 | DISPENSING DEVICE AND SERVER PROVIDING A COMBINATION OF DOSAGE FORMS OPTIMIZED FOR CURRENT HEALTH CONDITION OF USER AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | COLLINS, MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555185 | DISPENSING DEVICE AND SERVER PROVIDING A COMBINATION OF DOSAGE FORMS OPTIMIZED FOR CURRENT HEALTH CONDITION OF USER AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | COLLINS, MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18555185 | DISPENSING DEVICE AND SERVER PROVIDING A COMBINATION OF DOSAGE FORMS OPTIMIZED FOR CURRENT HEALTH CONDITION OF USER AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | COLLINS, MICHAEL | 3655 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
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