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
Dimitris Lyras operates within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action, a figure that reflects a focused state of prosecution for its patent applications. This suggests that the company is currently navigating the final stages of review or a specific technical hurdle for its pending claims.
The examination process involves 1 distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current intellectual property is being reviewed in a very specific technical niche, which can be advantageous for maintaining consistency in claim scope. CRANDALL, RICHARD W. is listed as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, serving as the primary point of contact for the company's filings.
CRANDALL, RICHARD W. is handling 1 pending office action, which is the only pending action for the company. This alignment shows that the entirety of the company's current prosecution activity is under the purview of a single examiner. Such a focused profile allows for a very specific understanding of the examiner's requirements and the art unit's standards within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems domain.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRANDALL, RICHARD W. | 1 | 30.2% | +33.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17672435 | Microprocessor Including a Model of an Enterprise | CRANDALL, RICHARD W. | 2d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17672435 | Microprocessor Including a Model of an Enterprise | CRANDALL, RICHARD W. | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17672435 | Microprocessor Including a Model of an Enterprise | CRANDALL, RICHARD W. | 3619 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Feb 15, 2022 |
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