Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Eightfold AI Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Prosecution is split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This spread across 2 art units may require the company to navigate different examination guidelines within the broader mechanical and e-commerce sectors, as no two actions are being reviewed in the same group.
EL-CHANTI, KARMA AHMAD serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 distinct examiners for 2 total actions, each examiner is currently responsible for exactly one matter. This distribution means that the company's 2 pending office actions are being evaluated independently by 2 distinct examiners. Practitioners must manage two separate prosecution tracks, as the 2 distinct art units involved likely represent different technical focuses within the transportation and e-commerce fields.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EL-CHANTI, KARMA AHMAD | 1 | 37.4% | +28.9% |
| SHORTER, RASHIDA R | 1 | 18.1% | +26.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18608805 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL PROCESSES FOR DEEP JOB PROFILE CUSTOMIZATION AND TALENT PROFILE CUSTOMIZATION | SHORTER, RASHIDA R | 26d |
| 18779892 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR AUTOMATICALLY REMOVING IRRELEVANT DATA FROM CANDIDATE PROFILES | EL-CHANTI, KARMA AHMAD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18608805 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL PROCESSES FOR DEEP JOB PROFILE CUSTOMIZATION AND TALENT PROFILE CUSTOMIZATION | SHORTER, RASHIDA R | 26d |
| 18779892 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR AUTOMATICALLY REMOVING IRRELEVANT DATA FROM CANDIDATE PROFILES | EL-CHANTI, KARMA AHMAD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3629 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18779892 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR AUTOMATICALLY REMOVING IRRELEVANT DATA FROM CANDIDATE PROFILES | EL-CHANTI, KARMA AHMAD | 3629 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18608805 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL PROCESSES FOR DEEP JOB PROFILE CUSTOMIZATION AND TALENT PROFILE CUSTOMIZATION | SHORTER, RASHIDA R | 3626 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
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