Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Cytel Inc. currently has 4 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating that the company is interacting with several different groups within the patent office simultaneously.
KHAN, IFTEKHAR A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 2 pending office actions. With a total of 4 pending actions, this examiner oversees 2 of the company's active cases, while the remaining actions are handled by other distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHAN, IFTEKHAR A | 2 | 77.7% | +26.0% |
| HOLCOMB, MARK | 1 | 33.5% | +40.4% |
| NGUYEN, HIEP VAN | 1 | 55.3% | +28.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17163430 | TRIAL DESIGN WITH PARETO TECHNIQUES | NGUYEN, HIEP VAN | 91d overdue |
| 17163424 | MULTI-SPACE TRIAL DESIGN PLATFORM | HOLCOMB, MARK | 77d overdue |
| 17847025 | FILTERING DESIGNS USING BOUNDARIES DERIVED FROM OPTIMAL DESIGNS | KHAN, IFTEKHAR A | 56d overdue |
| 17847040 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRADE-OFF VISUAL ANALYSIS | KHAN, IFTEKHAR A | 19d 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17163430 | TRIAL DESIGN WITH PARETO TECHNIQUES | NGUYEN, HIEP VAN | 91d overdue |
| 17163424 | MULTI-SPACE TRIAL DESIGN PLATFORM | HOLCOMB, MARK | 77d overdue |
| 17847025 | FILTERING DESIGNS USING BOUNDARIES DERIVED FROM OPTIMAL DESIGNS | KHAN, IFTEKHAR A | 56d overdue |
| 17847040 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRADE-OFF VISUAL ANALYSIS | KHAN, IFTEKHAR A | 19d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2187 | 2 |
| 3685 | 1 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17847025 | FILTERING DESIGNS USING BOUNDARIES DERIVED FROM OPTIMAL DESIGNS | KHAN, IFTEKHAR A | 2187 | §101§102§103DP | Final Rejection | 56d overdue | Pending | Jun 22, 2022 |
| 17847040 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRADE-OFF VISUAL ANALYSIS | KHAN, IFTEKHAR A | 2187 | §101 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Jun 22, 2022 |
| 17163424 | MULTI-SPACE TRIAL DESIGN PLATFORM | HOLCOMB, MARK | 3685 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 77d overdue | Pending | Jan 30, 2021 |
| 17163430 | TRIAL DESIGN WITH PARETO TECHNIQUES | NGUYEN, HIEP VAN | 3686 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 91d overdue | Pending | Jan 30, 2021 |
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