Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
13 pending office actions • 6 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Black Hills IP Holdings LLC has 14 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio is characterized by examiner diversity, as the 14 pending office actions are distributed among 14 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that each application is being reviewed by a different person, requiring an approach for every matter.
The prosecution activity spans 7 distinct art units, reflecting the technical focuses within the portfolio. ALLEN, BRITTANY N is the busiest examiner, though they are responsible for only 1 pending office action. This lack of concentration across the 14 distinct examiners means that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the current pending matters. The distribution across 7 distinct art units further underscores the technical breadth of the active applications. This decentralized structure may lead to a range of prosecution timelines and results.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (23%) |
| §101 + other | 9 (69%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLEN, BRITTANY N | 1 | 42.2% | +37.8% |
| CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T | 1 | 74.4% | +32.7% |
| HATCH, ANGELA MAIDA | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| RIVERA GONZALEZ, IVONNEMARY | 1 | 4.4% | +7.4% |
| SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | 1 | 25.9% | +36.8% |
| WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 1 | 18.6% | +19.0% |
| ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 1 | 9.5% | +15.8% |
| BOND, REED MADISON | 1 | 11.5% | +28.3% |
| NEWLON, WILLIAM D | 1 | 46.6% | +28.2% |
| MONTALVO, CARLOS FERNANDO | 1 | 15.0% | -1.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18205982 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A BACK-UP DOCKET | BOND, REED MADISON | 89d overdue |
| 17722178 | PRE-CODED AUTOMATIC DOCKETING | LAKHANI, ANDREW C | 50d overdue |
| 18122875 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PORTFOLIO BUDGETING TOOL | NEWLON, WILLIAM D | 16d overdue |
| 18651366 | ANALYTICS GENERATION FOR PATENT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT | HATCH, ANGELA MAIDA | 3d overdue |
| 18108387 | PATENT FAMILY CITATION LANDSCAPE TOOL | MONTALVO, CARLOS FERNANDO | 42d |
| 18369711 | PATENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS HAVING EXPERT DOCKETING | RIVERA GONZALEZ, IVONNEMARY | 63d |
| 18351425 | STRUCTURED ANALYSIS RELATING TO DEADLINE DRIVEN PROJECT MANAGEMENT | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 71d |
| 19262064 | PATENT MAPPING | ALLEN, BRITTANY N | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18205982 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A BACK-UP DOCKET | BOND, REED MADISON | 89d overdue |
| 18122875 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PORTFOLIO BUDGETING TOOL | NEWLON, WILLIAM D | 16d overdue |
| 18351425 | STRUCTURED ANALYSIS RELATING TO DEADLINE DRIVEN PROJECT MANAGEMENT | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 71d |
| 19262064 | PATENT MAPPING | ALLEN, BRITTANY N | — |
| 19221503 | AUTOMATED PATENT CLAIM SCOPE CONCEPT MAPPING | CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T | — |
| 18351416 | DYNAMIC DATA RESOURCE DRIVEN USER INTERFACE TOOL | SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | — |
| 18351428 | SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC REMINDERS FOR ITEMS WITH LEGAL DEADLINES | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3629 | 4 |
| 3626 | 3 |
| 3624 | 2 |
| 2169 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 3696 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19262064 | PATENT MAPPING | ALLEN, BRITTANY N | 2169 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19221503 | AUTOMATED PATENT CLAIM SCOPE CONCEPT MAPPING | CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 18651366 | ANALYTICS GENERATION FOR PATENT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT | HATCH, ANGELA MAIDA | 3626 | §101 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18369711 | PATENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS HAVING EXPERT DOCKETING | RIVERA GONZALEZ, IVONNEMARY | 3626 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18351416 | DYNAMIC DATA RESOURCE DRIVEN USER INTERFACE TOOL | SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | 3625 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18351428 | SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC REMINDERS FOR ITEMS WITH LEGAL DEADLINES | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 3629 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18351425 | STRUCTURED ANALYSIS RELATING TO DEADLINE DRIVEN PROJECT MANAGEMENT | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 3629 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18205982 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A BACK-UP DOCKET | BOND, REED MADISON | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
| 18122875 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PORTFOLIO BUDGETING TOOL | NEWLON, WILLIAM D | 3696 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Mar 17, 2023 |
| 18108387 | PATENT FAMILY CITATION LANDSCAPE TOOL | MONTALVO, CARLOS FERNANDO | 3629 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
| 17946759 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND USER INTERFACES IN A PATENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | PRASAD, NANCY N | 3624 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2022 |
| 17833200 | AUTOMATED DOCKETING CHECKER | CHEN, WENREN | 3626 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2022 |
| 17722178 | PRE-CODED AUTOMATIC DOCKETING | LAKHANI, ANDREW C | 3629 | §101 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
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