Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Apex Techlink Inc. currently has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are highly distributed, as they are spread across 4 distinct art units and involve multiple examiners. This suggests that the company's technology is being reviewed by several specialized groups within the patent office, each with its own set of departmental standards. The lack of concentration in a single art unit indicates a broad technological footprint within the transportation sector.
Examiner PARRA, OMAR S is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. This shows that each of the active actions is being handled by a different official, as there are 4 distinct examiners involved in total. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate different sets of examiner preferences and the specific nuances of the various art units simultaneously. This decentralized structure means that success in one application may not necessarily predict the outcome in others, requiring a customized approach for each of the 4 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARRA, OMAR S | 1 | 74.4% | +9.2% |
| PRESTON, JOHN O | 1 | 28.4% | +7.7% |
| SHRESTHA, BIJENDRA K | 1 | 60.9% | +40.9% |
| QAYYUM, ZESHAN | 1 | 40.5% | +30.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18412354 | ADVANCED ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING SYSTEM | SHRESTHA, BIJENDRA K | 4d overdue |
| 18737806 | GLOBAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM | PRESTON, JOHN O | 41d |
| 17678922 | TRANSACTIONAL APPROVAL SYSTEM | QAYYUM, ZESHAN | 42d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18412354 | ADVANCED ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING SYSTEM | SHRESTHA, BIJENDRA K | 4d overdue |
| 17678922 | TRANSACTIONAL APPROVAL SYSTEM | QAYYUM, ZESHAN | 42d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2421 | 1 |
| 3693 | 1 |
| 3691 | 1 |
| 3697 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18763925 | IMMUTABLE CHRONOLOGICAL ELECTRONIC RECORD SYSTEM | PARRA, OMAR S | 2421 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18737806 | GLOBAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM | PRESTON, JOHN O | 3693 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18412354 | ADVANCED ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING SYSTEM | SHRESTHA, BIJENDRA K | 3691 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 17678922 | TRANSACTIONAL APPROVAL SYSTEM | QAYYUM, ZESHAN | 3697 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Feb 23, 2022 |
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