Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
AutoAlert, LLC maintains a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. There are 3 pending office actions currently in progress. These 3 pending office actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, meaning that each matter is being reviewed by a different person. This distribution can lead to varied prosecution experiences across the portfolio.
The company's activity is spread across 3 distinct art units, which indicates a broad technical focus within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. GILKEY, CARRIE STRODER is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is one of the 3 distinct examiners currently assigned to the company's cases. With 3 distinct art units and 3 distinct examiners involved, the prosecution landscape is quite diverse for a small number of actions. Practitioners should be prepared to adapt to the specific requirements of each art unit. Ensuring a unified strategy across these 3 pending office actions will be important for the company's overall patent goals.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILKEY, CARRIE STRODER | 1 | 16.2% | +33.4% |
| KONERU, SUJAY | 1 | 58.1% | +37.3% |
| ANSARI, AZAM A | 1 | 47.3% | +47.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18486093 | VISUAL DISCOVERY TOOL FOR AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURERS WITH NETWORK ENCRYPTION, DATA CONDITIONING, AND PREDICTION ENGINE | ANSARI, AZAM A | 117d overdue |
| 18735023 | PREDICTING THE EFFECT OF INCENTIVE PROGRAMS | KONERU, SUJAY | 5d |
| 18801591 | USER INTERFACES FOR ASSET AND TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT | GILKEY, CARRIE STRODER | 63d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18486093 | VISUAL DISCOVERY TOOL FOR AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURERS WITH NETWORK ENCRYPTION, DATA CONDITIONING, AND PREDICTION ENGINE | ANSARI, AZAM A | 117d overdue |
| 18735023 | PREDICTING THE EFFECT OF INCENTIVE PROGRAMS | KONERU, SUJAY | 5d |
| 18801591 | USER INTERFACES FOR ASSET AND TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT | GILKEY, CARRIE STRODER | 63d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3626 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 3621 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18801591 | USER INTERFACES FOR ASSET AND TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT | GILKEY, CARRIE STRODER | 3626 | §101§112Other | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18735023 | PREDICTING THE EFFECT OF INCENTIVE PROGRAMS | KONERU, SUJAY | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18486093 | VISUAL DISCOVERY TOOL FOR AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURERS WITH NETWORK ENCRYPTION, DATA CONDITIONING, AND PREDICTION ENGINE | ANSARI, AZAM A | 3621 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | 117d overdue | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAutoAlert, LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Carrie Stroder Gilkey has the most, with 1 of AutoAlert, LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
