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
Crowe LLP currently manages a highly concentrated patent portfolio within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a very narrow or early-stage prosecution pipeline. This single action is being handled by HOLCOMB, MARK, who serves as the busiest examiner for the company. Because there is only a solitary distinct examiner and a lone distinct art unit involved, the portfolio lacks the examiner diversity often seen in larger corporate filings. This specific art unit represents the sole administrative environment for the company's current legal challenges.
The fact that HOLCOMB, MARK is responsible for 1 pending office action means this individual controls the entirety of the company's current active interactions with the USPTO. For a practitioner, this concentration suggests that prosecution strategy is currently tied to the specific tendencies of a single administrative pocket. The total workload for the portfolio reflects a streamlined or highly specific intellectual property focus. With the only active case overseen by a single person, the company's immediate success in this technology area depends on navigating a single set of examiner preferences. This focused approach minimizes the need for varied procedural tactics across different examiners.
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLCOMB, MARK | 1 | 33.5% | +40.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18731680 | Computerized System and Method of Open Account Processing | HOLCOMB, MARK | 76d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18731680 | Computerized System and Method of Open Account Processing | HOLCOMB, MARK | 76d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18731680 | Computerized System and Method of Open Account Processing | HOLCOMB, MARK | 3685 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 76d | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
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