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
The company patent portfolio for Decurret Dcp Inc. is concentrated in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. There is 1 pending office action in the current prosecution cycle. This application is being reviewed by a distinct examiner within a distinct art unit.
WARDEN, MICHAEL J is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is equal to this examiner's pending count, the entire active workload is managed by a single person. This centralization ensures that all communication regarding the portfolio is directed to one office contact.
For those overseeing the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems applications, the use of a single distinct art unit indicates a focused technical classification. The total workload represents the full extent of the current prosecution activity. Practitioners can focus their legal arguments on the specific requirements of the individual examiner assigned to the case.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WARDEN, MICHAEL J | 1 | 25.4% | +21.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18490917 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | WARDEN, MICHAEL J | 30d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18490917 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | WARDEN, MICHAEL J | 30d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3694 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18490917 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | WARDEN, MICHAEL J | 3694 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
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