Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Breakout Learning Inc. is currently managing 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 pending office actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, which means each case is being handled by a different individual. These examiners are situated within 2 distinct art units, suggesting some technical overlap despite the variety of personnel.
GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action currently under his review. Because there are 3 distinct examiners for the 3 pending office actions, the workload is balanced among them. The 2 distinct art units involved will provide the regulatory context for all 3 pending office actions.
Practitioners must navigate the preferences of 3 distinct examiners while working within the 2 distinct art units. The 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering represent the current active prosecution for the company. With GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action, the portfolio remains decentralized across 3 distinct examiners.
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 only | 1 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D | 1 | 57.3% | +24.6% |
| GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 22.0% | +7.1% |
| WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 1 | 18.7% | +18.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18544095 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A USER ATTRIBUTE SCORE | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 44d overdue |
| 18543914 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR ASSISTED LEARNING | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 33d |
| 18543458 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-MEDIATED MULTIPARTY ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION | ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18543914 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR ASSISTED LEARNING | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 33d |
| 18543458 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-MEDIATED MULTIPARTY ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION | ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18543458 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-MEDIATED MULTIPARTY ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION | ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D | 3715 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18544095 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A USER ATTRIBUTE SCORE | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 3715 | §101 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18543914 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR ASSISTED LEARNING | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 3629 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBreakout Learning Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Stephen D Alvesteffer has the most, with 1 of Breakout Learning Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
