Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Datavault AI Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Both of these actions are assigned to a single examiner, Scott C. Anderson, who is the only distinct examiner currently active for the portfolio. This creates a high level of examiner consistency for the company's current pending matters. Despite having only 1 distinct examiner, the 2 pending actions are categorized across 2 distinct art units, which is a specific arrangement for this portfolio.
Scott C. Anderson is identified as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. Because the portfolio involves only 1 distinct examiner, the company avoids the complexity of managing multiple examiner relationships. However, the distribution across 2 distinct art units means that the examiner may be applying different technical standards or procedural guidelines to each case. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of Scott C. Anderson while accounting for the nuances of the 2 different art units. The concentration of 2 pending actions under 1 examiner in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area suggests a very focused prosecution strategy.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERSON, SCOTT C | 2 | 58.6% | +31.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19356940 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CARBON CREDIT TOKENIZATION | ANDERSON, SCOTT C | 8d overdue |
| 19248284 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TOKENIZED EVENT MANAGEMENT | ANDERSON, SCOTT C | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19356940 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CARBON CREDIT TOKENIZATION | ANDERSON, SCOTT C | 8d overdue |
| 19248284 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TOKENIZED EVENT MANAGEMENT | ANDERSON, SCOTT C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3694 | 1 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19356940 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CARBON CREDIT TOKENIZATION | ANDERSON, SCOTT C | 3694 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Oct 13, 2025 |
| 19248284 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TOKENIZED EVENT MANAGEMENT | ANDERSON, SCOTT C | 3622 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
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