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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Constant Contact Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, Christopher Stroud, within 1 distinct art unit. Stroud is the busiest examiner, responsible for the 1 pending action. The portfolio's current prosecution is highly focused, involving only one examiner and one art unit. Practitioners should prioritize understanding Stroud's examination style to resolve the 1 pending action. This concentrated activity indicates a very specific technical focus for the company's current patent efforts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 28.2% | +20.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19019288 | System and Method for Providing Marketing Consent Synchronization Across Multiple Third Party SaaS Integrations | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 44d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19019288 | System and Method for Providing Marketing Consent Synchronization Across Multiple Third Party SaaS Integrations | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 44d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3621 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19019288 | System and Method for Providing Marketing Consent Synchronization Across Multiple Third Party SaaS Integrations | STROUD, CHRISTOPHER | 3621 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
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