Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
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
DASSAULT SYSTEMES has 1 pending office action in the Computing & Software technology area. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H., who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The portfolio's activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific focus within the computing sector.
The involvement of only 1 distinct examiner means that the prosecution results are currently dependent on the individual review of WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. Since there is only 1 pending office action, the company's current interaction with the patent office is minimal. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination patterns of the assigned examiner to navigate this single pending matter. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is not currently pursuing patents across a variety of different USPTO divisions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. | 1 | 58.5% | +32.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18658500 | VEHICLE IMPACT ANALYSIS WITH TWO-POINT-CONTACT CURVES | WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18658500 | VEHICLE IMPACT ANALYSIS WITH TWO-POINT-CONTACT CURVES | WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2187 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18658500 | VEHICLE IMPACT ANALYSIS WITH TWO-POINT-CONTACT CURVES | WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. | 2187 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
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