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
Court Bots Inc. holds a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly concentrated prosecution effort where all current activity is localized under one individual in a specific department at the USPTO.
GLADE, ZACHARY EDWARD FREW is the busiest examiner for the portfolio and is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The 1 to 1 ratio between the busiest examiner's workload and the total pending actions confirms that there is no distribution of work across multiple examiners. The 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's transportation technology is classified within a narrow technical field.
Practitioners should note that the entire active portfolio is subject to the discretion of 1 distinct examiner. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will significantly impact the company's standing in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. Because there is only 1 distinct art unit, the examination process is highly focused on the standards of that specific unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLADE, ZACHARY EDWARD FREW | 1 | 67.3% | +53.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18444782 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SPORTS PARTICIPANT WITH A TOWEL DURING PLAY | GLADE, ZACHARY EDWARD FREW | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18444782 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SPORTS PARTICIPANT WITH A TOWEL DURING PLAY | GLADE, ZACHARY EDWARD FREW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18444782 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SPORTS PARTICIPANT WITH A TOWEL DURING PLAY | GLADE, ZACHARY EDWARD FREW | 3664 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
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