Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Direct Supply Inc. is currently responding to 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that while the examiner count matches the total actions, the work is concentrated in fewer art units.
The busiest examiner, GO, JOHN PHILIP, is responsible for 1 pending office action. With a busiest examiner pending count of 1, no individual examiner holds more than 1 pending office action. This spread across 3 distinct examiners suggests that the company must navigate multiple individual examiner styles within the 2 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 only | 1 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GO, JOHN PHILIP | 1 | 34.1% | +43.1% |
| CHAMPAGNE, LUNA | 1 | 45.6% | +34.1% |
| SULLIVAN, THOMAS J | 1 | 27.2% | +21.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18828581 | Inventory Coordination Functionality for Harmonizing Procurement Across Distribution Networks | CHAMPAGNE, LUNA | 36d |
| 18213747 | Systems, Methods, and Media for Managing the Obtaining of Services | SULLIVAN, THOMAS J | 39d |
| 19296108 | Apparatus for Clinical Data Capture | GO, JOHN PHILIP | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18828581 | Inventory Coordination Functionality for Harmonizing Procurement Across Distribution Networks | CHAMPAGNE, LUNA | 36d |
| 18213747 | Systems, Methods, and Media for Managing the Obtaining of Services | SULLIVAN, THOMAS J | 39d |
| 19296108 | Apparatus for Clinical Data Capture | GO, JOHN PHILIP | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3627 | 1 |
| 3689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19296108 | Apparatus for Clinical Data Capture | GO, JOHN PHILIP | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 |
| 18828581 | Inventory Coordination Functionality for Harmonizing Procurement Across Distribution Networks | CHAMPAGNE, LUNA | 3627 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18213747 | Systems, Methods, and Media for Managing the Obtaining of Services | SULLIVAN, THOMAS J | 3689 | §101 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
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