Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
BILLD, LLC manages 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, indicating a broad range of technical filings. PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending matter. The use of 5 distinct art units indicates that the company's intellectual property covers multiple specialized sub-sectors within the broader transportation and mechanical systems field.
The distribution of 5 pending office actions across 5 distinct examiners suggests that the company must navigate various examination styles simultaneously. While there are multiple examiners involved, the workload is distributed, as the busiest examiner, PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE, only has 1 busiest examiner pending case. This diversity in examiners and art units requires a coordinated approach to maintain consistency across the 5 pending office actions. The strategy involves managing 5 distinct art units, which may have different internal guidelines. Each of the 5 pending office actions represents a unique point of contact within the patent office for the company's legal team.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE | 1 | 18.4% | +27.1% |
| BOSWELL, BETH V | 1 | 9.9% | -2.2% |
| UBER, NATHAN C | 1 | 3.4% | +5.5% |
| BARGEON, BRITTANY E | 1 | 45.0% | +34.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18092715 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CONTRACTOR ANALYSIS FOR AN OFFER | BOSWELL, BETH V | 146d overdue |
| 18092814 | AUTOMATED DATA FILTRATION AND POPULATION FOR STREAMLINED ONLINE PROCESSING | BARGEON, BRITTANY E | 70d |
| 18378526 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SITUATIONALLY-RESPONSIVE PRESENTATION OF A RECOMMENDATION | PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE | — |
| 18092836 | AUTOMATED PROJECT DOCUMENTATION WORKFLOWS | UBER, NATHAN C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18092814 | AUTOMATED DATA FILTRATION AND POPULATION FOR STREAMLINED ONLINE PROCESSING | BARGEON, BRITTANY E | 70d |
| 18378526 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SITUATIONALLY-RESPONSIVE PRESENTATION OF A RECOMMENDATION | PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18378526 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SITUATIONALLY-RESPONSIVE PRESENTATION OF A RECOMMENDATION | PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE | 3624 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18092715 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CONTRACTOR ANALYSIS FOR AN OFFER | BOSWELL, BETH V | 3625 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 146d overdue | Pending | Jan 03, 2023 |
| 18092836 | AUTOMATED PROJECT DOCUMENTATION WORKFLOWS | UBER, NATHAN C | 3626 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2023 |
| 18092814 | AUTOMATED DATA FILTRATION AND POPULATION FOR STREAMLINED ONLINE PROCESSING | BARGEON, BRITTANY E | 3688 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Jan 03, 2023 |
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