Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Automated Cashless Systems Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, CUFF, MICHAEL A, in 1 distinct art unit. CUFF, MICHAEL A is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action.
The company's current patent efforts are focused on this single matter. This represents a highly focused and singular path for the company's pending intellectual property. For the practitioner, the primary focus is on the specific examination style of CUFF, MICHAEL A, as he is the only person currently reviewing the company's filings.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CUFF, MICHAEL A | 1 | 82.2% | +12.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19043171 | ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GAMING OR AMUSEMENT CREDIT PURCHASES | CUFF, MICHAEL A | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19043171 | ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GAMING OR AMUSEMENT CREDIT PURCHASES | CUFF, MICHAEL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19043171 | ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GAMING OR AMUSEMENT CREDIT PURCHASES | CUFF, MICHAEL A | 3715 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
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