Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Computing & Software technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, TOUGHIRY, ARYAN D. This examiner is the busiest for the company, handling 1 pending action. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit. With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's current patent activity is highly focused.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates a specific technical area of interest for this single pending action. TOUGHIRY, ARYAN D is the sole examiner responsible for the 1 pending action currently on record. This concentrated prosecution environment allows for a direct and singular focus on the requirements of 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners can dedicate their efforts to the specific preferences of this 1 distinct examiner. The presence of 1 action and 1 examiner simplifies the management of the 1 pending office action. This streamlined approach is characteristic of a portfolio with a single active matter in the Computing & Software field.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOUGHIRY, ARYAN D | 1 | 68.8% | +19.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19228287 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR CONTEXT-DRIVEN SEARCH | TOUGHIRY, ARYAN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2165 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19228287 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR CONTEXT-DRIVEN SEARCH | TOUGHIRY, ARYAN D | 2165 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialEncyclopaedia Britannica Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Aryan D Toughiry has the most, with 1 of Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
