Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
12 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 | 6 (50%) |
| §103 only | 2 (17%) |
| §102 only | 2 (17%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILLS, KURTIS | 4 | 57.7% | +28.8% |
| LEWANDROSKI, SARA J | 1 | 80.8% | +9.6% |
| THOMAS, ANA D | 1 | 87.8% | +6.7% |
| ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 48.8% | +19.1% |
| NEJAD, MAHDI H | 1 | 73.9% | +29.1% |
| DAO, TUAN C. | 1 | 82.1% | +15.9% |
| KAY, DOUGLAS | 1 | 62.1% | +29.2% |
| BACA, MATTHEW WALTER | 1 | 73.6% | +4.5% |
| XIE, THEODORE L | 1 | 40.0% | +100.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19219413 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RAILROAD SNAPSHOT AND PLAYBACK | LEWANDROSKI, SARA J | — |
| 19206777 | AUTOMATED POSITIVE TRAIN CONTROL EVENT DATA EXTRACTION AND ANALYSIS ENGINE AND METHOD THEREFOR | THOMAS, ANA D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19044828 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERMODAL DUAL-STREAM-BASED RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION | GILLS, KURTIS | — |
| 18911420 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING UTILIZATION OF CHASSIS RESOURCES OF A HUB BASED ON A DUAL-STREAM RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION | GILLS, KURTIS | — |
| 18758914 | ENGINE COMPONENT REMOVAL TOOL | NEJAD, MAHDI H | — |
| 18658556 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VISUALIZING EVENT DATA OF A CLASSIFICATION YARD | DAO, TUAN C. | — |
| 18508925 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING RAILROAD TRACK SURFACE DEGRADATION | BACA, MATTHEW WALTER | — |
| 18167656 | MOBILE WORK REPORTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | XIE, THEODORE L | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18911983 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC AND LOGICAL INTERMODAL PARKING LOT CLASSIFICATION | GILLS, KURTIS | 7d |
| 19044828 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERMODAL DUAL-STREAM-BASED RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION | GILLS, KURTIS | — |
| 18930242 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, & METHOD FOR TEMPORARY LIQUID COMMODITY TRANSFER STATIONS | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| 18911420 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING UTILIZATION OF CHASSIS RESOURCES OF A HUB BASED ON A DUAL-STREAM RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION | GILLS, KURTIS | — |
| 18911803 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADVANCED SCHEDULING AND OPTIMIZATION OF RAMP OPERATIONS OF A HUB BASED ON AN INTELLIGENT GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | GILLS, KURTIS | — |
| 18758914 | ENGINE COMPONENT REMOVAL TOOL | NEJAD, MAHDI H | — |
| 18658556 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VISUALIZING EVENT DATA OF A CLASSIFICATION YARD | DAO, TUAN C. | — |
| 18658602 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND VALIDATING STATUS OF HARDWARE DEVICES IN A CLASSIFICATION YARD | KAY, DOUGLAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 3 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3747 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19219413 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RAILROAD SNAPSHOT AND PLAYBACK | LEWANDROSKI, SARA J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 19206777 | AUTOMATED POSITIVE TRAIN CONTROL EVENT DATA EXTRACTION AND ANALYSIS ENGINE AND METHOD THEREFOR | THOMAS, ANA D | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19044828 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERMODAL DUAL-STREAM-BASED RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION | GILLS, KURTIS | 3624 | §101§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 18930242 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, & METHOD FOR TEMPORARY LIQUID COMMODITY TRANSFER STATIONS | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 3799 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18911983 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC AND LOGICAL INTERMODAL PARKING LOT CLASSIFICATION | GILLS, KURTIS | 3624 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18911420 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING UTILIZATION OF CHASSIS RESOURCES OF A HUB BASED ON A DUAL-STREAM RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION | GILLS, KURTIS | 3747 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18911803 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADVANCED SCHEDULING AND OPTIMIZATION OF RAMP OPERATIONS OF A HUB BASED ON AN INTELLIGENT GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | GILLS, KURTIS | 3624 | DPOther | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18758914 | ENGINE COMPONENT REMOVAL TOOL | NEJAD, MAHDI H | — | §101§102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18658556 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VISUALIZING EVENT DATA OF A CLASSIFICATION YARD | DAO, TUAN C. | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18658602 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND VALIDATING STATUS OF HARDWARE DEVICES IN A CLASSIFICATION YARD | KAY, DOUGLAS | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18508925 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING RAILROAD TRACK SURFACE DEGRADATION | BACA, MATTHEW WALTER | 2857 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18167656 | MOBILE WORK REPORTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | XIE, THEODORE L | 3623 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial