Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
BEIJING JINGDONG ZHENSHI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, resulting in a one-to-one ratio of examiners to pending matters. The prosecution involves 2 distinct art units, indicating that the applications are grouped into two separate technical divisions at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is KIRK, BRYAN J, who handles 1 pending office action. Because each of the 3 distinct examiners is responsible for exactly 1 pending action, the company's prosecution is entirely decentralized at the individual level. This distribution means that the company must navigate three different sets of examiner preferences across the 3 pending office actions.
With 2 distinct art units overseeing the 3 pending actions, there is some administrative consolidation despite the variety of examiners. Practitioners should look for consistency in how these 2 art units handle Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems cases. The decentralized nature of the 3 distinct examiners suggests that the company is receiving a broad spectrum of feedback from the USPTO.
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 only | 3 (75%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIRK, BRYAN J | 1 | 33.6% | +43.7% |
| EL-BATHY, IBRAHIM N | 1 | 52.0% | +46.4% |
| PRASAD, NANCY N | 1 | 21.3% | +18.2% |
| GOYEA, OLUSEGUN | 1 | 64.9% | +33.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555038 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | EL-BATHY, IBRAHIM N | 45d overdue |
| 18283609 | Method and Apparatus for Determining Logistics Product, Electronic Device, and Computer-Readable Medium | PRASAD, NANCY N | 2d overdue |
| 18699908 | DISTRIBUTION ROUTE DETERMINATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | KIRK, BRYAN J | — |
| 18012392 | Article Retrieval Method and Apparatus, Device and Storage Medium | GOYEA, OLUSEGUN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555038 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | EL-BATHY, IBRAHIM N | 45d overdue |
| 18283609 | Method and Apparatus for Determining Logistics Product, Electronic Device, and Computer-Readable Medium | PRASAD, NANCY N | 2d overdue |
| 18699908 | DISTRIBUTION ROUTE DETERMINATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | KIRK, BRYAN J | — |
| 18012392 | Article Retrieval Method and Apparatus, Device and Storage Medium | GOYEA, OLUSEGUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 2 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18699908 | DISTRIBUTION ROUTE DETERMINATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | KIRK, BRYAN J | 3628 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18555038 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | EL-BATHY, IBRAHIM N | 3628 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18283609 | Method and Apparatus for Determining Logistics Product, Electronic Device, and Computer-Readable Medium | PRASAD, NANCY N | 3624 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18012392 | Article Retrieval Method and Apparatus, Device and Storage Medium | GOYEA, OLUSEGUN | 3627 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
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