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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bluefin Payment Systems LLC has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution activity is concentrated, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This singular focus means the company's current interactions with the patent office are confined to a very specific regulatory environment. Such concentration allows for a highly specialized prosecution strategy that targets the specific technical requirements of a single group.
MARIA CRISTI OWEN SHERR serves as the busiest examiner, managing the 1 pending office action currently on record. With 1 distinct examiner involved, the outcome of the current prosecution cycle depends entirely on the interpretations of a single official. This streamlined structure simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the impact of that individual examiner's specific standards. The presence of 1 distinct art unit ensures that the legal team only needs to monitor the procedural norms of one specific division.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 1 | 26.3% | +14.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18947992 | SMART PROXY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TOKENIZATION AND POINT-TO-POINT ENCRYPTION SERVICES | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 147d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18947992 | SMART PROXY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TOKENIZATION AND POINT-TO-POINT ENCRYPTION SERVICES | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 147d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3697 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18947992 | SMART PROXY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TOKENIZATION AND POINT-TO-POINT ENCRYPTION SERVICES | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 3697 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 147d overdue | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
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