Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
AspenTech Corporation currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This active matter is assigned to examiner HENRY, MATTHEW D, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The concentration of work under this examiner suggests a highly focused prosecution effort for this company. This arrangement allows the applicant to concentrate their resources on a point of contact within the patent office.
The portfolio is distributed across 1 distinct art unit and involves 1 distinct examiner. Because the busiest examiner handles 1 pending office action, the prosecution strategy relies entirely on the interactions with HENRY, MATTHEW D. Practitioners should monitor this specific examiner's historical trends to anticipate the likely trajectory of the application. Understanding the specific procedural preferences of the 1 distinct art unit involved will also be critical for achieving a favorable outcome. Addressing the specific requirements of the 1 pending office action will be the primary focus of the next prosecution phase.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAN, YUHUI R | 1 | 83.3% | +22.1% |
| HENRY, MATTHEW D | 1 | 29.7% | +20.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18298855 | Automated Evaluation of Refinery and Petrochemical Feedstocks Using a Combination of Historical Market Prices, Machine Learning, and Algebraic Planning Model Information | HENRY, MATTHEW D | 54d |
| 18758454 | Methods and Systems For Generating Interpretable and Differentiable Models For Industrial Optimization | PAN, YUHUI R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18298855 | Automated Evaluation of Refinery and Petrochemical Feedstocks Using a Combination of Historical Market Prices, Machine Learning, and Algebraic Planning Model Information | HENRY, MATTHEW D | 54d |
| 18758454 | Methods and Systems For Generating Interpretable and Differentiable Models For Industrial Optimization | PAN, YUHUI R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2116 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18758454 | Methods and Systems For Generating Interpretable and Differentiable Models For Industrial Optimization | PAN, YUHUI R | 2116 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18298855 | Automated Evaluation of Refinery and Petrochemical Feedstocks Using a Combination of Historical Market Prices, Machine Learning, and Algebraic Planning Model Information | HENRY, MATTHEW D | 3625 | §101 | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
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