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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dropp Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is located within 1 distinct art unit and is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. The company's current engagement with the patent office is limited to this single active prosecution, making it the focal point of their intellectual property strategy.
REAGAN, JAMES A is the busiest examiner, holding the 1 pending office action. For practitioners, this means that the company's immediate patent goals in the e-commerce sector are tied to the results of this specific examination. Understanding the examiner's specific approach to systems-based claims will be critical for a successful outcome, as there are no other active matters to provide a baseline for comparison.
The concentration of 1 pending office action with 1 examiner in 1 art unit allows for a very targeted and resource-intensive prosecution effort. A practitioner can focus entirely on the specific feedback from REAGAN, JAMES A without the need to coordinate with other examiners or units. However, this also means that the company's current success in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area is entirely dependent on the outcome of this single case.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REAGAN, JAMES A | 1 | 71.4% | +19.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19540174 | MICROTRANSACTION SYSTEM | REAGAN, JAMES A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19540174 | MICROTRANSACTION SYSTEM | REAGAN, JAMES A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3697 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19540174 | MICROTRANSACTION SYSTEM | REAGAN, JAMES A | 3697 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2026 |
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