Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Arizona Board of Regents has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 actions are split between 2 distinct examiners. Both actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specific technical focus for the board's mechanical innovations.
Uche Sowande Byrd is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This indicates that while the 2 pending office actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, they are both being evaluated within the same technical division at the USPTO. For practitioners, the concentration in 1 distinct art unit for 2 actions provides a consistent technical environment, even though the 2 examiners may have different individual approaches to the 2 pending matters. This 1 art unit focus can help in maintaining a unified technical narrative for the board's transportation filings.
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 (50%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | 1 | 22.6% | +26.7% |
| SHORTER, RASHIDA R | 1 | 18.1% | +26.2% |
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 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19232588 | AI ENABLED COMPETENCY BASED FLEX CURRICULUM PLANNER | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | — | §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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