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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Credit Karma LLC maintains 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio's current activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit and involves a distinct examiner. This indicates a very narrow and specific area of active prosecution at the present time. The focus on the art unit suggests that the company's current innovations are being evaluated against a consistent set of technical standards and prior art within the transportation sector.
The busiest examiner, UNDERWOOD, BAKARI, is responsible for the pending office action. Since this represents the total volume of active cases for the company, the prosecution strategy is currently centralized under this official. Practitioners can dedicate their efforts to understanding the specific requirements and feedback from the examiner within the identified art unit. This concentrated approach allows for a deep focus on the official's individual preferences and the art unit's specific guidelines without the need to coordinate across multiple departments or 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNDERWOOD, BAKARI | 1 | 68.1% | +17.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763842 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIP CLASSIFICATION | UNDERWOOD, BAKARI | 5d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763842 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIP CLASSIFICATION | UNDERWOOD, BAKARI | 5d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18763842 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIP CLASSIFICATION | UNDERWOOD, BAKARI | 3663 | §101§102DP | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
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