Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Arkestro Inc. has 2 pending office actions focused in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct art units, showing a lack of concentration in a single administrative group. The prosecution involves distinct examiners, meaning each individual is currently reviewing exactly a single pending matter. This distribution requires the company to navigate different examiner perspectives even with a small volume of active cases.
ARAQUE JR, GERARDO is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Because there are only a few pending office actions in total, no single examiner or art unit holds a majority of the active portfolio. The 2 distinct art units involved suggest that the technical scope of these pending office actions is varied enough to fall under different supervisory groups. Practitioners should expect unique procedural requirements for each matter.
The presence of distinct examiners for only these pending office actions means there is no opportunity to leverage a single examiner's previous rulings across multiple cases. ARAQUE JR, GERARDO handles 1 pending office action, leaving the other to a different individual. Within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area, the company must manage these distinct art units independently to reach a resolution.
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 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 1 | 9.5% | +15.8% |
| NGUYEN, NGA B | 1 | 53.0% | +25.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19432853 | Generation and Real-time Ranking of Customized Quotes | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17976659 | PROCUREMENT MODELING SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING PREFERENTIAL SUPPLIERS AND SUPPLIER PRICING POWER | NGUYEN, NGA B | 45d overdue |
| 19432853 | Generation and Real-time Ranking of Customized Quotes | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3629 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19432853 | Generation and Real-time Ranking of Customized Quotes | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 3629 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2025 |
| 17976659 | PROCUREMENT MODELING SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING PREFERENTIAL SUPPLIERS AND SUPPLIER PRICING POWER | NGUYEN, NGA B | 3625 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Oct 28, 2022 |
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