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
Consensus Cloud Solutions LLC has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This prosecution activity involves a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. The narrow scope of current activity suggests a specific focus on a small set of related technologies. For the applicant, this means that the entirety of their current patent strategy is concentrated within a technical silo at the USPTO.
ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since this examiner accounts for the entirety of the company's pending actions, the prosecution strategy is currently dependent on a specific individual's review. This centralization allows for a direct line of communication with the patent office, which can streamline the negotiation process. However, it also means that the company's immediate patenting success is tied to the specific examination patterns of the assigned personnel.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K | 1 | 32.4% | +40.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18755290 | Method and System for Converting Facsimile Documents to Electronic Health Record Formats | ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18755290 | Method and System for Converting Facsimile Documents to Electronic Health Record Formats | ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K | 3682 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
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