Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Elliptic Laboratories Asa currently has 2 pending office actions in its patent portfolio, which falls under the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. Despite having multiple examiners, the prosecution is centralized within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the applications share a closely related technical focus. The concentration of 2 pending actions within 1 distinct art unit in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field is a key detail for practitioners.
The busiest examiner for the company is ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for 1 action. This distribution shows that the workload is split evenly between ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN and one other examiner. This 2 to 2 ratio of actions to examiners means that each pending matter is receiving individual attention from a different official. This distribution provides a variety of examiner perspectives on the company's intellectual property.
The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests that while different examiners are involved, they likely operate under the same supervisory and unit-specific guidelines. This centralized unit structure can lead to more predictable prosecution outcomes compared to portfolios spread across multiple units. Practitioners should be prepared to manage 2 different examiner relationships while navigating the specific standards of 1 art unit. This profile represents a balanced prosecution environment where individual examiner attention is maintained within a single technical department.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN | 1 | 46.9% | +31.6% |
| WIGGER, BENJAMIN DAVID | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18702137 | REMOTE PRESENCE DETECTION SYSTEM | WIGGER, BENJAMIN DAVID | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18845760 | DYNAMIC SAMPLING RATE | ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18845760 | DYNAMIC SAMPLING RATE | ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18702137 | REMOTE PRESENCE DETECTION SYSTEM | WIGGER, BENJAMIN DAVID | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
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