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
American Litho Inc. operates within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company's current patent prosecution activity consists of 1 pending office action. This single action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, showing a focused point of engagement with the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CHAKRAVARTI, ARUNAVA, who is currently assigned the 1 pending office action. As there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner is responsible for the entire active workload for American Litho Inc. This concentration means the company's immediate patent goals in the mechanical systems space depend on the findings of this one individual.
The use of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology being patented is highly specialized. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific precedents and examination trends of that single unit. With 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution strategy is simplified, as there is no need to reconcile conflicting feedback from multiple examiners across the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAKRAVARTI, ARUNAVA | 1 | 9.7% | +13.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18149457 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR ELECTRONIC BILL PAY WITH CHECK PRINTING AND PROCESSING | CHAKRAVARTI, ARUNAVA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18149457 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR ELECTRONIC BILL PAY WITH CHECK PRINTING AND PROCESSING | CHAKRAVARTI, ARUNAVA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18149457 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR ELECTRONIC BILL PAY WITH CHECK PRINTING AND PROCESSING | CHAKRAVARTI, ARUNAVA | 3692 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAmerican Litho Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Arunava Chakravarti has the most, with 1 of American Litho Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
