Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Elta Systems Ltd. has 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 5 actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, meaning no examiner is currently handling more than one matter for the company. This spread requires the applicant to navigate five different individual examiner perspectives simultaneously. The distribution of 5 distinct examiners for the 5 pending office actions ensures a variety of viewpoints across the portfolio.
The portfolio is divided between 2 distinct art units, showing that the company's mechanical systems filings are being reviewed by two different specialized groups. Farhana Akhter Hoque is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This 1 action represents a portion of the total 5 pending actions currently facing the organization. The presence of 2 distinct art units indicates that the subject matter is categorized into different administrative silos within the USPTO.
With 5 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, the prosecution requires addressing separate sets of technical and administrative expectations. Practitioners must manage these 5 pending office actions by tailoring their responses to the specific art unit environments and the individual preferences of the 5 examiners involved. The 1 pending office action under Farhana Akhter Hoque is one of five separate dialogues. Maintaining consistency across the 2 distinct art units is essential for a cohesive strategy in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER | 1 | 86.0% | +11.3% |
| JUSTICE, MICHAEL W | 1 | 83.0% | +16.9% |
| ABULABAN, ABDALLAH | 1 | 71.0% | +14.1% |
| ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 1 | 80.5% | +14.5% |
| WALKER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD | 1 | 72.9% | +18.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18341294 | Technique for calibration of a phased array antenna | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 49d overdue |
| 18983760 | PATCH ANTENNA WITH HEAT DISSIPATION | JUSTICE, MICHAEL W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18279461 | OPTICAL-ACOUSTIC SHOOTER DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION, INCLUDING RAPID-FIRE EVENTS AND SIMULTANEOUS EVENTS | ABULABAN, ABDALLAH | 61d |
| 18991590 | CALIBRATION OF AN OPTICALLY PUMPED MAGNETOMETER | HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18341294 | Technique for calibration of a phased array antenna | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 49d overdue |
| 18254277 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FACILITATING EFFICIENCY OF A GROUP WHOSE MEMBERS ARE ON THE MOVE | WALKER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD | 14d |
| 18279461 | OPTICAL-ACOUSTIC SHOOTER DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION, INCLUDING RAPID-FIRE EVENTS AND SIMULTANEOUS EVENTS | ABULABAN, ABDALLAH | 61d |
| 18991590 | CALIBRATION OF AN OPTICALLY PUMPED MAGNETOMETER | HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER | — |
| 18983760 | PATCH ANTENNA WITH HEAT DISSIPATION | JUSTICE, MICHAEL W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 2 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18991590 | CALIBRATION OF AN OPTICALLY PUMPED MAGNETOMETER | HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2024 |
| 18983760 | PATCH ANTENNA WITH HEAT DISSIPATION | JUSTICE, MICHAEL W | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18279461 | OPTICAL-ACOUSTIC SHOOTER DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION, INCLUDING RAPID-FIRE EVENTS AND SIMULTANEOUS EVENTS | ABULABAN, ABDALLAH | 3645 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 18341294 | Technique for calibration of a phased array antenna | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
| 18254277 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FACILITATING EFFICIENCY OF A GROUP WHOSE MEMBERS ARE ON THE MOVE | WALKER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
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