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
American University of Sharjah currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This prosecution is handled by the distinct examiner, PUTTAIAH, ASHA, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending case. The activity is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, which relates to the university's filings in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems.
The involvement of the distinct examiner and the 1 distinct art unit for the pending office action indicates that the current prosecution is centralized. For a practitioner, this concentration in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems means that the legal strategy is focused on the requirements of PUTTAIAH, ASHA. This structure allows for a direct approach to overcoming rejections within the assigned art unit.
The presence of the pending office action in the art unit limits the administrative scope of the portfolio. The university can focus its resources on this specific technical area without coordinating across different art units or examiner requirements. This oversight by PUTTAIAH, ASHA defines the current path for the university's intellectual property objectives in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUTTAIAH, ASHA | 1 | 21.0% | +20.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18953697 | CARBON EMISSIONS TRACKING AND TRADING USING BLOCKCHAIN | PUTTAIAH, ASHA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18953697 | CARBON EMISSIONS TRACKING AND TRADING USING BLOCKCHAIN | PUTTAIAH, ASHA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18953697 | CARBON EMISSIONS TRACKING AND TRADING USING BLOCKCHAIN | PUTTAIAH, ASHA | 3691 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAmerican University of Sharjah has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Asha Puttaiah has the most, with 1 of American University of Sharjah's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
