Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Brightai Corporation has 7 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are being handled by 7 distinct examiners, creating a scenario where every pending matter is under the review of a different individual. This high level of examiner variety across 7 pending office actions suggests that the company must adapt its prosecution tactics to seven different sets of examiner preferences and behaviors. The workload is spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating that the 7 pending office actions involve several different technical sub-categories.
BITAR, NANCY is the busiest examiner listed, though this examiner only accounts for 1 pending office action. Because there are 7 distinct examiners for the 7 pending office actions, the influence of any single examiner like BITAR, NANCY is limited. Practitioners should focus on the 4 distinct art units to identify broader trends that might affect the portfolio, while remaining mindful of the diverse perspectives offered by the 7 distinct examiners. This distribution across 4 distinct art units requires a versatile legal strategy to manage the varying technical requirements of the USPTO.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (43%) |
| §103 only | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEMIEUX, IAN L | 1 | 86.8% | +9.1% |
| BITAR, NANCY | 1 | 82.7% | +7.7% |
| BONANSINGA, AARON TIMOTHY | 1 | 80.0% | +33.3% |
| HARVEY II, KEVIN JEROME | 1 | 50.0% | +20.8% |
| BACA, MATTHEW WALTER | 1 | 72.2% | +5.7% |
| HEIM, MARK ROBERT | 1 | 55.6% | -3.6% |
| HAUSMANN, MICHELLE M | 1 | 76.7% | +21.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18917454 | OBSCURED OBJECT RECOGNITION ASSOCIATED WITH CAPTURE AREA | BITAR, NANCY | — |
| 18917506 | RELEVANCE BASED WEIGHTING | BONANSINGA, AARON TIMOTHY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18492672 | SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS FOR GENERATING A DIGITAL REPRESENTATION OF AN ENVIRONMENT | BACA, MATTHEW WALTER | 3d overdue |
| 18492676 | SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS FOR MULTIMODAL FEATURE DETECTION OF AN ENVIRONMENT | HEIM, MARK ROBERT | 22d |
| 18917476 | ADAPTIVE RECOGNITION USE HISTORY | LEMIEUX, IAN 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18885389 | AUTONOMOUSLY DRIVING ROBOT HAVING A SENSOR PACKAGE | HARVEY II, KEVIN JEROME | 53d |
| 18917506 | RELEVANCE BASED WEIGHTING | BONANSINGA, AARON TIMOTHY | — |
| 18492662 | SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS FOR REAL-TIME FEATURE DETECTION OF AN ENVIRONMENT | HAUSMANN, MICHELLE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3664 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 3668 | 1 |
| 2671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18917476 | ADAPTIVE RECOGNITION USE HISTORY | LEMIEUX, IAN L | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18917454 | OBSCURED OBJECT RECOGNITION ASSOCIATED WITH CAPTURE AREA | BITAR, NANCY | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18917506 | RELEVANCE BASED WEIGHTING | BONANSINGA, AARON TIMOTHY | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18885389 | AUTONOMOUSLY DRIVING ROBOT HAVING A SENSOR PACKAGE | HARVEY II, KEVIN JEROME | 3664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 53d | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18492672 | SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS FOR GENERATING A DIGITAL REPRESENTATION OF AN ENVIRONMENT | BACA, MATTHEW WALTER | 2857 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 18492676 | SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS FOR MULTIMODAL FEATURE DETECTION OF AN ENVIRONMENT | HEIM, MARK ROBERT | 3668 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 18492662 | SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS FOR REAL-TIME FEATURE DETECTION OF AN ENVIRONMENT | HAUSMANN, MICHELLE M | 2671 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
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