Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Betterup Inc. is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, though they are both contained within 1 distinct art unit. This structure suggests that while the company's technical focus is narrow enough to remain in 1 art unit, the prosecution is being handled by 2 individuals with potentially different interpretive styles.
JACKSON, JAKIEDA R is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners managing a total of 2 pending office actions, each examiner is responsible for 1 active case. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows for a unified approach to technical arguments, even as the company must address the specific feedback of 2 different examiners. This balance requires a prosecution strategy that maintains consistency across the 1 art unit's standards while adapting to the individual preferences of 2 examiners.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JACKSON, JAKIEDA R | 1 | 74.2% | +15.6% |
| BEKERMAN, MICHAEL | 1 | 32.5% | +31.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19076598 | INTELLIGENT COACH-MEMBER DETERMINATION SYSTEM | BEKERMAN, MICHAEL | 30d overdue |
| 19090208 | SEGMENTING TRANSCRIPTS INTO NATURALISTIC CONVERSATIONAL TURNS | JACKSON, JAKIEDA R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19076598 | INTELLIGENT COACH-MEMBER DETERMINATION SYSTEM | BEKERMAN, MICHAEL | 30d overdue |
| 19090208 | SEGMENTING TRANSCRIPTS INTO NATURALISTIC CONVERSATIONAL TURNS | JACKSON, JAKIEDA R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3621 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19090208 | SEGMENTING TRANSCRIPTS INTO NATURALISTIC CONVERSATIONAL TURNS | JACKSON, JAKIEDA R | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19076598 | INTELLIGENT COACH-MEMBER DETERMINATION SYSTEM | BEKERMAN, MICHAEL | 3621 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
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