Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Amgine Technologies (US), Inc. is currently navigating 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, yet all fall within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the company's applications are technically similar enough to be grouped together, they are being reviewed by a variety of individuals. This distribution may lead to different perspectives on similar subject matter.
VETTER, DANIEL is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This indicates that each of the 3 distinct examiners is likely handling a similar share of the 3 pending office actions. The workload is distributed across the examiner pool, with no single individual managing a majority of the cases. This arrangement within 1 distinct art unit provides an opportunity to compare how different examiners interpret the same set of departmental guidelines.
The focus on Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems is clear, as the active prosecution remains within a single art unit. The 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to VETTER, DANIEL represents a fraction of the total active docket. For the practitioner, this profile highlights a centralized art unit strategy combined with a decentralized examiner approach. Managing the assigned examiners requires a consistent response strategy to ensure uniform results.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 2 (67%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VETTER, DANIEL | 1 | 20.1% | +9.0% |
| HEFLIN, BRIAN ADAMS | 1 | 39.5% | +32.4% |
| ERB, NATHAN | 1 | 51.4% | +0.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18365819 | Artificially Intelligent Computing Engine for Travel Itinerary Resolutions | VETTER, DANIEL | 67d overdue |
| 18190353 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING CHANGES TO ITINERARIES | HEFLIN, BRIAN ADAMS | — |
| 17118259 | MULTI-PASSENGER AND MULTIATTRIBUTE TRAVEL BOOKING PLATFORM | ERB, NATHAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18190353 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING CHANGES TO ITINERARIES | HEFLIN, BRIAN ADAMS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18365819 | Artificially Intelligent Computing Engine for Travel Itinerary Resolutions | VETTER, DANIEL | 3628 | §112 | Final Rejection | 67d overdue | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18190353 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING CHANGES TO ITINERARIES | HEFLIN, BRIAN ADAMS | 3628 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
| 17118259 | MULTI-PASSENGER AND MULTIATTRIBUTE TRAVEL BOOKING PLATFORM | ERB, NATHAN | 3628 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2020 |
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