Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Carbon Arc is managing 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Both of these actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, but they involve 2 distinct examiners. This suggests a concentration of technical focus but a split in the personnel reviewing the applications at the patent office.
SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Since there are only 2 pending office actions, this examiner is responsible for half of the company's active prosecution. Practitioners should be aware that even though both actions are in the same art unit, the involvement of 2 different examiners may lead to different requirements or interpretations of the technology.
The presence of 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions means that Carbon Arc must maintain two separate dialogues within the same art unit. For a practitioner, this requires monitoring both cases to ensure that arguments made to SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL do not conflict with those made to the other examiner. The concentration in 1 art unit simplifies the technical landscape, but the personnel diversity requires a case-specific approach for each application.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL | 1 | 50.6% | +45.8% |
| IDIAKE, VINCENT I | 1 | 71.5% | +18.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19541998 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORK MODELLED DATA | SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL | — |
| 18244610 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RAIL-BASED GATEWAY LOGIC COMMUNICATIONS | IDIAKE, VINCENT I | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19541998 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORK MODELLED DATA | SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL | — |
| 18244610 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RAIL-BASED GATEWAY LOGIC COMMUNICATIONS | IDIAKE, VINCENT I | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3698 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19541998 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORK MODELLED DATA | SAX, TIMOTHY PAUL | 3698 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2026 |
| 18244610 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RAIL-BASED GATEWAY LOGIC COMMUNICATIONS | IDIAKE, VINCENT I | 3698 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
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