Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Degree Inc. manages a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 4 pending office actions, which is a relatively high number for this group. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners. SHEIKH, ASFAND M is the busiest examiner for the company, handling 2 pending office actions, while the remaining actions are split among others.
The prosecution activity is spread across 3 distinct art units. This variety in art units suggests that the company's 4 pending office actions cover a range of technical sub-fields within its primary technology area. With 3 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage multiple different examiner styles and timelines simultaneously. The fact that the busiest examiner has 2 pending actions indicates a slight concentration of work, but the overall portfolio remains distributed across several different administrative points.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 3 (75%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHEIKH, ASFAND M | 2 | 46.0% | +48.0% |
| LEE, PO HAN | 1 | 32.1% | +41.7% |
| YESILDAG, LAURA G | 1 | 34.7% | +41.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18361418 | EMPLOYEE GROWTH ACCELERATION SYSTEM | YESILDAG, LAURA G | 44d overdue |
| 18479777 | ADMINISTRATION SERVICES FOR MANAGING GROUP FEEDBACK | SHEIKH, ASFAND M | 7d |
| 18471913 | ADMINISTRATION SERVICES FOR GOALS PLATFORMS | LEE, PO HAN | 12d |
| 18479778 | ADMINISTRATION SERVICES FOR MANAGING STATUS UPDATES | SHEIKH, ASFAND M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18361418 | EMPLOYEE GROWTH ACCELERATION SYSTEM | YESILDAG, LAURA G | 44d overdue |
| 18479777 | ADMINISTRATION SERVICES FOR MANAGING GROUP FEEDBACK | SHEIKH, ASFAND M | 7d |
| 18471913 | ADMINISTRATION SERVICES FOR GOALS PLATFORMS | LEE, PO HAN | 12d |
| 18479778 | ADMINISTRATION SERVICES FOR MANAGING STATUS UPDATES | SHEIKH, ASFAND M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3626 | 2 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18479778 | ADMINISTRATION SERVICES FOR MANAGING STATUS UPDATES | SHEIKH, ASFAND M | 3626 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18479777 | ADMINISTRATION SERVICES FOR MANAGING GROUP FEEDBACK | SHEIKH, ASFAND M | 3626 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18471913 | ADMINISTRATION SERVICES FOR GOALS PLATFORMS | LEE, PO HAN | 3623 | §101 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18361418 | EMPLOYEE GROWTH ACCELERATION SYSTEM | YESILDAG, LAURA G | 3629 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialDegree Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Asfand M Sheikh has the most, with 2 of Degree Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
