Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
BLOOMBERG INDUSTRY GROUP, INC. maintains a patent portfolio in the Computing & Software technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This prosecution activity is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly concentrated effort in a specific technical field. This structure means that the company's current interactions with the USPTO are focused on a single point of contact.
KELLS, ASHER is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. Since this is the only pending action, the examiner's specific approach to Computing & Software will determine the immediate success of the portfolio. For a practitioner, this lack of examiner diversity means that the strategy must be tailored specifically to KELLS, ASHER, without the benefit of observing how other examiners might treat similar subject matter.
The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current filings are technically specialized. With 1 pending office action, the company's immediate patent goals are tied to a single prosecution track. This requires a precise and focused response to the examiner's findings, as the company does not have other pending matters to provide a broader view of the current examination environment.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KELLS, ASHER | 1 | 78.9% | +11.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17468006 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS | KELLS, ASHER | 22d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17468006 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS | KELLS, ASHER | 22d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2171 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17468006 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS | KELLS, ASHER | 2171 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Sep 07, 2021 |
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