Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Beelinx Usa L L C currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is distributed to a distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated prosecution focus for the portfolio. For a practitioner, this concentration means that the company's immediate patent strategy is dependent on the findings of a single administrative unit. The focus on this specific technology area suggests a specialized portfolio development strategy.
The busiest examiner for the company is GIERINGER, MELINDA J, who is responsible for the busiest examiner pending action. This figure matches the total portfolio count, showing that all current activity is centralized under this specific examiner's review. The presence of a single examiner for the workload suggests that the company is not currently facing a diversified set of examiner perspectives or varied art unit standards during its current prosecution phase.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIERINGER, MELINDA J | 1 | 32.9% | +25.2% |
| ALAM, FAYYAZ | 1 | 83.4% | +11.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18782915 | USE OF LOCALIZED BROADCAST SIGNALS TO MODIFY MOBILE APPLICATION BEHAVIOR | GIERINGER, MELINDA J | 84d overdue |
| 18735018 | URBAN MOBILE NETWORK SYSTEM | ALAM, FAYYAZ | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3622 | 1 |
| 2646 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18782915 | USE OF LOCALIZED BROADCAST SIGNALS TO MODIFY MOBILE APPLICATION BEHAVIOR | GIERINGER, MELINDA J | 3622 | §112Other | Final Rejection | 84d overdue | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18735018 | URBAN MOBILE NETWORK SYSTEM | ALAM, FAYYAZ | 2646 | Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
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