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
Assured Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are divided between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This workload distribution indicates that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different examiner in a separate specialized unit. The presence of multiple examiners suggests that the company's mechanical systems portfolio is not concentrated under a single individual's review, which may lead to different examination experiences for each application.
The busiest examiner for the company is JACOB, WILLIAM J, who holds 1 pending office action. This concentration shows that no single examiner handles all of the 2 current pending actions for the company. For a practitioner, this distribution means that prosecution strategies may need to be tailored to the specific tendencies of different examiners rather than a single point of contact. Successfully managing the pending office actions requires addressing the individual preferences of the reviewers across the specialized units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JACOB, WILLIAM J | 1 | 49.0% | +34.2% |
| HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER | 1 | 64.0% | +52.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17931908 | TOOL FOR TEST BASED PERSONALIZATION OF ACTUARIAL TABLES | HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER | 41d |
| 18978011 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HELPING A LONG TERM CARE POLICY HOLDER STAY INDEPENDENT IN THE SHORT TERM | JACOB, WILLIAM J | 84d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17931908 | TOOL FOR TEST BASED PERSONALIZATION OF ACTUARIAL TABLES | HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER | 41d |
| 18978011 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HELPING A LONG TERM CARE POLICY HOLDER STAY INDEPENDENT IN THE SHORT TERM | JACOB, WILLIAM J | 84d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3696 | 1 |
| 3695 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18978011 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HELPING A LONG TERM CARE POLICY HOLDER STAY INDEPENDENT IN THE SHORT TERM | JACOB, WILLIAM J | 3696 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 17931908 | TOOL FOR TEST BASED PERSONALIZATION OF ACTUARIAL TABLES | HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER | 3695 | §101 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Sep 14, 2022 |
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