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
AutoScheduler.AI LP is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, which represents a decentralized prosecution environment for the company's current active matters. Each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual in a different specialized administrative unit.
GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for 1 of the current workload. This means that the company's success in the transportation and e-commerce sector is currently dependent on the separate and independent evaluations of these 2 examiners.
The presence of 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending office actions indicates that the company's innovations are being categorized into different technical niches at the USPTO. For the practitioner, this requires managing 2 pending office actions with no common examiner or art unit to provide a unified prosecution path. Each action must be addressed based on the specific feedback from its assigned examiner, as there is no overlap in the current pending portfolio.
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 + other | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE | 1 | 23.3% | +34.3% |
| BOYCE, ANDRE D | 1 | 36.4% | +18.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18369679 | AUTOMATICALLY AND DYNAMICALLY MANAGING TASK BASED SCHEDULING AND OPERATIONS FOR DISTRIBUTION WAREHOUSES | BOYCE, ANDRE D | 254d overdue |
| 18369724 | AUTOMATICALLY AND DYNAMICALLY MANAGING REWARD BASED SCHEDULING AND OPERATIONS FOR DISTRIBUTION WAREHOUSES | GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18369679 | AUTOMATICALLY AND DYNAMICALLY MANAGING TASK BASED SCHEDULING AND OPERATIONS FOR DISTRIBUTION WAREHOUSES | BOYCE, ANDRE D | 254d overdue |
| 18369724 | AUTOMATICALLY AND DYNAMICALLY MANAGING REWARD BASED SCHEDULING AND OPERATIONS FOR DISTRIBUTION WAREHOUSES | GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3625 | 1 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18369724 | AUTOMATICALLY AND DYNAMICALLY MANAGING REWARD BASED SCHEDULING AND OPERATIONS FOR DISTRIBUTION WAREHOUSES | GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE | 3625 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18369679 | AUTOMATICALLY AND DYNAMICALLY MANAGING TASK BASED SCHEDULING AND OPERATIONS FOR DISTRIBUTION WAREHOUSES | BOYCE, ANDRE D | 3623 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 254d overdue | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
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