Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
Constructor Education and Research Genossenschaft is managing 9 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These 9 actions are handled by 9 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is reviewing exactly one application. These matters are spread across 8 distinct art units, showing a high degree of technical diversity within the portfolio.
MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. The high number of 8 art units relative to the 9 total actions suggests that the company's communications-related filings cover a wide variety of specific technical sub-fields. Because there are 9 distinct examiners working across 8 art units, the company is interacting with a different individual for almost every pending matter. This decentralized environment requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to the specific preferences of 9 different examiners across nearly as many specialized technical groups at the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 only | 3 (30%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (20%) |
| §103 only | 3 (30%) |
| §112 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (10%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | 1 | 86.6% | +12.9% |
| GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A | 1 | 22.1% | +23.4% |
| SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K | 1 | 68.2% | +34.0% |
| DARDANO, STEFANO ANTHONY | 1 | 78.5% | +31.9% |
| HASKINS, TWYLER LAMB | 1 | 57.1% | +8.8% |
| OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 1 | 16.2% | +14.1% |
| BASHIR, ADEEL | 1 | 89.6% | +4.9% |
| BOLEN, NICHOLAS D | 1 | 9.4% | +10.0% |
| REINBOLD, SCOTT A | 1 | 69.4% | +13.2% |
| FRENCH, CORRELL T | 1 | 44.4% | +32.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18737565 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERSONALIZED AVATAR GENERATION USING PHOTO IMAGE ANALYSIS | BASHIR, ADEEL | 3d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19003972 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADJUSTING AN AVATAR MODEL BASED ON COMPUTATIONAL COST | MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | — |
| 19003810 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED GRADING OF WRITTEN RESPONSE TESTS | GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A | — |
| 18982088 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPEECH GENERATION USING LATENT FEATURES EXTRACTED FROM INTERMEDIATE LAYERS OF AN ACOUSTIC MODEL | SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K | — |
| 18895693 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING COURSES GENERATED USING MACHINE LEARNING INTO A CURRICULUM | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | — |
| 18434201 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING DIGITAL CONTENT BASED ON USER ENGAGEMENT ASSESSMENT | BOLEN, NICHOLAS D | — |
| 18357636 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACTIVE ASSESSMENT OF A USER PROFILE BASED ON TRAINING MATERIAL | FRENCH, CORRELL T | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18533846 | OPTIMAL SLIP ANGLE STEERING CONTROL FOR VEHICLES | REINBOLD, SCOTT A | 7d |
| 19003972 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADJUSTING AN AVATAR MODEL BASED ON COMPUTATIONAL COST | MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | — |
| 19003810 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED GRADING OF WRITTEN RESPONSE TESTS | GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A | — |
| 18982088 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPEECH GENERATION USING LATENT FEATURES EXTRACTED FROM INTERMEDIATE LAYERS OF AN ACOUSTIC MODEL | SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K | — |
| 18946021 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING NEURAL NETWORKS TO IDENTIFY AND GEOLOCATE RACERS ON A RACE COURSE | DARDANO, STEFANO ANTHONY | — |
| 18895693 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING COURSES GENERATED USING MACHINE LEARNING INTO A CURRICULUM | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | — |
| 18434201 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING DIGITAL CONTENT BASED ON USER ENGAGEMENT ASSESSMENT | BOLEN, NICHOLAS D | — |
| 18357636 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACTIVE ASSESSMENT OF A USER PROFILE BASED ON TRAINING MATERIAL | FRENCH, CORRELL T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| 2612 | 1 |
| 2659 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| 2639 | 1 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| 2616 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 3747 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19003972 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADJUSTING AN AVATAR MODEL BASED ON COMPUTATIONAL COST | MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | 2612 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 19003810 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED GRADING OF WRITTEN RESPONSE TESTS | GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18982088 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPEECH GENERATION USING LATENT FEATURES EXTRACTED FROM INTERMEDIATE LAYERS OF AN ACOUSTIC MODEL | SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K | 2659 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18946021 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING NEURAL NETWORKS TO IDENTIFY AND GEOLOCATE RACERS ON A RACE COURSE | DARDANO, STEFANO ANTHONY | 2663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18933475 | AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENT OF RACING VEHICLE DETAILS | HASKINS, TWYLER LAMB | 2639 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18895693 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING COURSES GENERATED USING MACHINE LEARNING INTO A CURRICULUM | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 3622 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18737565 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERSONALIZED AVATAR GENERATION USING PHOTO IMAGE ANALYSIS | BASHIR, ADEEL | 2616 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18434201 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING DIGITAL CONTENT BASED ON USER ENGAGEMENT ASSESSMENT | BOLEN, NICHOLAS D | 3624 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18533846 | OPTIMAL SLIP ANGLE STEERING CONTROL FOR VEHICLES | REINBOLD, SCOTT A | 3747 | §112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18357636 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACTIVE ASSESSMENT OF A USER PROFILE BASED ON TRAINING MATERIAL | FRENCH, CORRELL T | 3715 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
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