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
Elfstone Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This same count of 1 applies to the number of distinct examiners and art units involved in the company's current prosecution. Nicholas K Phan is the busiest examiner for the portfolio and is responsible for the only pending action currently active. This matter represents the entirety of the company's present engagement with the patent office, requiring a focused effort on this specific filing.
Because the number of examiners matches the number of actions, the prosecution is highly concentrated under a single individual. There are no other pending matters to provide a baseline for comparison within the assigned art unit. Practitioners must focus their strategy entirely on the specific requirements and historical tendencies of Nicholas K Phan. The outcome of this specific examination will be the primary factor in the company's near-term intellectual property results in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. Every development in this case carries significant weight for the portfolio due to the lack of additional pending actions.
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 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAN, NICHOLAS K | 1 | 51.8% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19334031 | METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING TRANSACTIONS IN REAL-TIME | PHAN, NICHOLAS K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19334031 | METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING TRANSACTIONS IN REAL-TIME | PHAN, NICHOLAS K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3699 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19334031 | METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING TRANSACTIONS IN REAL-TIME | PHAN, NICHOLAS K | 3699 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2025 |
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