Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Carvana LLC currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, indicating that each application is being reviewed by a different individual. The prosecution is organized across 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's filings in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector are grouped into several technical sub-categories.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WU, CHONG, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This confirms that the workload is perfectly distributed, as each of the 5 distinct examiners is handling exactly one of the company's pending matters. No single examiner currently manages more than one of the 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
The use of 3 distinct art units for 5 pending office actions indicates a degree of technical focus within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. However, with 5 distinct examiners involved, the company must still account for a variety of examination styles. The presence of 5 distinct examiners for 5 pending office actions requires the company to maintain several simultaneous dialogues with the patent office while following the standards of 3 distinct art units.
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 | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WU, CHONG | 2 | 86.5% | +3.3% |
| SHUI, MING | 1 | 57.9% | +50.5% |
| LOGAN, KYLE O | 1 | 87.3% | +9.5% |
| KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 63.3% | +21.5% |
| BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | 1 | 63.0% | +18.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19050363 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROTATING AN AUGMENTED REALITY DISPLAY | WU, CHONG | — |
| 18805595 | Vehicle Vending Machine | LOGAN, KYLE O | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19018525 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING IMAGES OF AN AUTOMOBILE | WU, CHONG | — |
| 18929502 | METHOD, SERVER, AND NON-TRANSITORY PROCESSOR READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ONLINE TRANSACTION | SHUI, MING | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18536548 | Vehicle Vending Machine With Fire Protection System | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 9d overdue |
| 18929502 | METHOD, SERVER, AND NON-TRANSITORY PROCESSOR READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ONLINE TRANSACTION | SHUI, MING | — |
| 17521806 | Systems and Methods for Personalization for Digital Displayed Media | BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3688 | 1 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| 2171 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19050363 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROTATING AN AUGMENTED REALITY DISPLAY | WU, CHONG | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 19018525 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING IMAGES OF AN AUTOMOBILE | WU, CHONG | — | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18929502 | METHOD, SERVER, AND NON-TRANSITORY PROCESSOR READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ONLINE TRANSACTION | SHUI, MING | 3688 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18805595 | Vehicle Vending Machine | LOGAN, KYLE O | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18536548 | Vehicle Vending Machine With Fire Protection System | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 3752 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 17521806 | Systems and Methods for Personalization for Digital Displayed Media | BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | 2171 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2021 |
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