Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bloomberg Finance L P has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This indicates an active prosecution phase for multiple applications or claims. The focus on Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems suggests that the company's current patent interests are aligned with the systems categorized under this classification.
Both of these actions are being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technical scope of the filings is categorized consistently. This concentration allows the company to maintain a dialogue with the patent office across different pending matters without navigating multiple administrative units.
WENREN CHEN is the busiest examiner, managing 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This examiner oversees all 2 pending office actions for the portfolio. The alignment of all pending work under 1 examiner and 1 art unit allows for a unified prosecution strategy, where the outcomes and feedback from one action can directly inform the approach for the other.
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 + 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, WENREN | 2 | 15.2% | +28.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18310689 | LEGAL CASE OUTCOME PREDICTION | CHEN, WENREN | 30d overdue |
| 18310712 | MOTION AND ORDER LINKING | CHEN, WENREN | 28d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18310689 | LEGAL CASE OUTCOME PREDICTION | CHEN, WENREN | 30d overdue |
| 18310712 | MOTION AND ORDER LINKING | CHEN, WENREN | 28d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3626 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18310689 | LEGAL CASE OUTCOME PREDICTION | CHEN, WENREN | 3626 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
| 18310712 | MOTION AND ORDER LINKING | CHEN, WENREN | 3626 | §101§103§112DP | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
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