Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Chachingme Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated focus for the company's current patenting efforts. The workload is managed by an examiner, which centralizes the prosecution experience for the applicant. This concentration in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area often involves navigating complex subject matter eligibility and functional claim limitations.
VANDERHORST, MARIA VICTORIA is the busiest examiner for the company, with the pending office action under their review. This action constitutes the whole of the company's pending portfolio. Because the prosecution is limited to VANDERHORST, MARIA VICTORIA and the art unit, the company's success in this technology area is currently tied to a point of review. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the examiner, as there are no other active cases to provide broader context or alternative paths for patent allowance within the portfolio at this time. The 1 pending office action represents the primary hurdle for the company's current intellectual property strategy in this specific technological field.
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 | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VANDERHORST, MARIA VICTORIA | 1 | 48.2% | +37.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18960051 | GENERATING A POOL OF RISK WITH OPTION PRICING | VANDERHORST, MARIA VICTORIA | 131d overdue |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18960051 | GENERATING A POOL OF RISK WITH OPTION PRICING | VANDERHORST, MARIA VICTORIA | 131d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3621 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18960051 | GENERATING A POOL OF RISK WITH OPTION PRICING | VANDERHORST, MARIA VICTORIA | 3621 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 131d overdue | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
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