Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Arizona Board of Regents has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are divided among 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. Gil H Lee is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The use of 3 distinct examiners for the 3 pending office actions shows a lack of examiner concentration. However, the focus on 2 distinct art units suggests that the pending matters share some technical commonalities despite being reviewed by different individuals.
With 3 pending office actions, the company must manage three separate examiner relationships. Gil H Lee handles a portion of the workload, while the other examiners manage the remaining filings. The presence of 3 distinct examiners means that the company faces a variety of individual examination styles. Because the portfolio is housed in 2 distinct art units, practitioners can look for technical consistency across some of the filings. The prosecution strategy must account for the specific habits of the busiest examiner while also addressing the requirements of the two technical groups involved. The 3 pending office actions require a coordinated approach across the assigned examiners.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, GIL H | 1 | 83.4% | +28.0% |
| BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | 1 | 22.7% | +26.1% |
| SHORTER, RASHIDA R | 1 | 17.9% | +25.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19279811 | INDIVIDUAL DIGITAL ACCESS WITH TERNARY STATES AND ONE-WAY UNCLONABLE FUNCTIONS TO PROTECT DIGITAL FILES | LEE, GIL H | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18132240 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZED POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION ENROLLMENT SERVICES | SHORTER, RASHIDA R | 29d |
| 19232588 | AI ENABLED COMPETENCY BASED FLEX CURRICULUM PLANNER | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18132240 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZED POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION ENROLLMENT SERVICES | SHORTER, RASHIDA R | 29d |
| 19279811 | INDIVIDUAL DIGITAL ACCESS WITH TERNARY STATES AND ONE-WAY UNCLONABLE FUNCTIONS TO PROTECT DIGITAL FILES | LEE, GIL H | — |
| 19232588 | AI ENABLED COMPETENCY BASED FLEX CURRICULUM PLANNER | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19279811 | INDIVIDUAL DIGITAL ACCESS WITH TERNARY STATES AND ONE-WAY UNCLONABLE FUNCTIONS TO PROTECT DIGITAL FILES | LEE, GIL H | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2025 |
| 19232588 | AI ENABLED COMPETENCY BASED FLEX CURRICULUM PLANNER | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | 3624 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 18132240 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZED POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION ENROLLMENT SERVICES | SHORTER, RASHIDA R | 3626 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Apr 07, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialArizona Board of Regents has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Gil H Lee has the most, with 1 of Arizona Board of Regents's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
