Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Balcony Technology Group Inc. manages 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are consolidated under a distinct examiner, MARIA CRISTI OWEN SHERR, in a distinct art unit. As the busiest examiner with 2 pending actions, MARIA CRISTI OWEN SHERR oversees the entire active prosecution pipeline for the company. This centralization simplifies the communication channel for the pending matters.
With the pending office actions assigned to 1 distinct examiner, the company can develop a unified prosecution strategy for its Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems filings. The examiner, MARIA CRISTI OWEN SHERR, will likely apply a consistent standard across the cases, which can be advantageous for predicting outcomes. However, this also means that any negative precedent set in a case could easily carry over to the other. Practitioners should utilize the concentration in the distinct art unit to streamline their responses and potentially resolve common issues through a single examiner interview.
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 + 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 2 | 26.3% | +14.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18790777 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIERARCHICAL OBJECT STORAGE OF TOKENIZED ASSETS AND RELATED DATA | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 41d |
| 18661620 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIERARCHICAL OBJECT STORAGE OF TOKENIZED ASSETS AND RELATED DATA | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18790777 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIERARCHICAL OBJECT STORAGE OF TOKENIZED ASSETS AND RELATED DATA | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 41d |
| 18661620 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIERARCHICAL OBJECT STORAGE OF TOKENIZED ASSETS AND RELATED DATA | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3697 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18790777 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIERARCHICAL OBJECT STORAGE OF TOKENIZED ASSETS AND RELATED DATA | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 3697 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18661620 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIERARCHICAL OBJECT STORAGE OF TOKENIZED ASSETS AND RELATED DATA | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 3697 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 11, 2024 |
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