Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Bitvaulty Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner across 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution focus at this stage. The alignment of the pending matter within a single art unit suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are focused on a specific technical niche within the broader transportation and e-commerce sector. This concentration allows for a very specific legal strategy tailored to the nuances of that particular art unit's examination standards.
REAGAN, JAMES A is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently on file for the company. Because there is only 1 pending action, this examiner's review will be the primary factor in the immediate outcome of the company's pending patent application. This singular point of contact simplifies the prosecution landscape for the company, as it only needs to address the requirements and feedback of 1 specific examiner and 1 art unit at this time. Such a focused interaction can lead to a more direct dialogue between the applicant and the patent office, potentially streamlining the path toward a final decision on the pending matter.
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 | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REAGAN, JAMES A | 1 | 71.4% | +19.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19211938 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF FACILITATING PROTECTION OF A DIGITAL VAULT AGAINST AN UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS | REAGAN, JAMES A | 58d overdue |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19211938 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF FACILITATING PROTECTION OF A DIGITAL VAULT AGAINST AN UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS | REAGAN, JAMES A | 58d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3697 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19211938 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF FACILITATING PROTECTION OF A DIGITAL VAULT AGAINST AN UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS | REAGAN, JAMES A | 3697 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 58d overdue | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
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