Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Edcast Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This prosecution activity is distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a portfolio that spans multiple specialized examination groups. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners suggests that the company is navigating different individual examination styles simultaneously. This distribution requires a diversified strategy to address the unique technical standards and procedural expectations of each separate art unit involved in the current workload.
PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This single pending matter is part of the total 2 pending office actions for the company. Practitioners should note that the workload is split across the 2 distinct examiners, requiring a strategy that accounts for the specific tendencies of each assigned official. Because the pending matters are handled by different individuals in different units, the company cannot rely on a single unified response style but must instead tailor its approach to the specific feedback provided by each examiner.
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 only | 1 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | 1 | 84.0% | +10.3% |
| PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT | 1 | 15.3% | +13.0% |
| GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 21.8% | +7.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17364497 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF GUIDING A USER ON A GRAPHICAL INTERFACE WITH COMPUTER VISION | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | 15d overdue |
| 16412389 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHOWING, TESTING AND CERTIFYING USERS IN-APP ON CLOUD APPLICATION WORKFLOWS | PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT | — |
| 15992148 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANIMATED WALKTHROUGHS IN AN ONLINE EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17364497 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF GUIDING A USER ON A GRAPHICAL INTERFACE WITH COMPUTER VISION | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | 15d overdue |
| 16412389 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHOWING, TESTING AND CERTIFYING USERS IN-APP ON CLOUD APPLICATION WORKFLOWS | PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2661 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17364497 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF GUIDING A USER ON A GRAPHICAL INTERFACE WITH COMPUTER VISION | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | 2661 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2021 |
| 16412389 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHOWING, TESTING AND CERTIFYING USERS IN-APP ON CLOUD APPLICATION WORKFLOWS | PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT | 3629 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2019 |
| 15992148 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANIMATED WALKTHROUGHS IN AN ONLINE EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 3715 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 29, 2018 |
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