Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
DMT SOLUTIONS GLOBAL Corporation is managing 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 4 pending actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, resulting in an examiner for every active application. This requires the company to adapt to 4 examination styles.
The 4 pending office actions are located within 2 distinct art units, which indicates some technical clustering. SMITH, JACOB A is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since each of the 4 distinct examiners is responsible for exactly 1 action, the workload is spread across the personnel. This distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests a technical approach across 2 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SELLS, JAMES D | 1 | 81.4% | +11.9% |
| DULANEY, BENJAMIN O | 1 | 62.3% | +11.4% |
| DETWEILER, JAMES M | 1 | 38.8% | +43.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19075578 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRINTING AND APPLYING LABELS | SELLS, JAMES D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18958497 | MAILING OPTIMIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DULANEY, BENJAMIN O | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18387648 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAILSTREAM POSTAGE PRESERVATION | DETWEILER, JAMES M | 46d overdue |
| 19075578 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRINTING AND APPLYING LABELS | SELLS, JAMES D | — |
| 18958497 | MAILING OPTIMIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DULANEY, BENJAMIN O | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3621 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19075578 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRINTING AND APPLYING LABELS | SELLS, JAMES D | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 18958497 | MAILING OPTIMIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DULANEY, BENJAMIN O | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18387648 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAILSTREAM POSTAGE PRESERVATION | DETWEILER, JAMES M | 3621 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
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