Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ensemble Rcm LLC has 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating a varied technical focus for the company's pending applications. The distribution across 4 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations touch on several different mechanical and e-commerce classifications. With 5 pending office actions active, the company must manage multiple examination paths.
Each of the 5 pending office actions is assigned to a different official, totaling 5 distinct examiners. HECTOR J CRESPO FEBLES is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This distribution requires the company to manage 5 separate examiner relationships across the 4 distinct art units. Because there are 5 distinct examiners for 5 pending office actions, each case is reviewed by a different official. Practitioners cannot rely on examiner overlap to streamline prosecution. Each of the 5 pending office actions will likely require a customized response strategy tailored to the specific examiner and art unit involved. HECTOR J CRESPO FEBLES handles 1 pending office action, matching the workload of the other officials.
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 only | 1 (20%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRESPO FEBLES, HECTOR J | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| LONG, FONYA M | 1 | 3.4% | +0.8% |
| WALDRON, SCOTT A | 1 | 81.1% | +29.2% |
| MOSER, BRUCE M | 1 | 84.2% | +20.1% |
| FELTEN, DANIEL S | 1 | 46.4% | +12.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18494153 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED REMITTANCE VALUE OUTLIER DETECTION IN PROCESSING OF DATABASE RECORDS | MOSER, BRUCE M | 114d overdue |
| 18494092 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING CHARGE VALUES AFFECTING THE PROCESSING OF DATABASE RECORDS | FELTEN, DANIEL S | 86d overdue |
| 18770251 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING DATABASE RECORDS USING PREDEFINED LOW FRICTION ACTIONS | WALDRON, SCOTT A | 28d |
| 18986249 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTEGRATING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGNCE INTO THE PROCESSING OF DATABASE RECORDS | CRESPO FEBLES, HECTOR J | — |
| 18929046 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFYING CHRONIC AND SEVERE ACUTE MEDICAL CONDITIONS BASED ON ANALYSIS OF DATABASE RECORDS | LONG, FONYA M | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18494153 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED REMITTANCE VALUE OUTLIER DETECTION IN PROCESSING OF DATABASE RECORDS | MOSER, BRUCE M | 114d overdue |
| 18494092 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING CHARGE VALUES AFFECTING THE PROCESSING OF DATABASE RECORDS | FELTEN, DANIEL S | 86d overdue |
| 18770251 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING DATABASE RECORDS USING PREDEFINED LOW FRICTION ACTIONS | WALDRON, SCOTT A | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3682 | 1 |
| 2152 | 1 |
| 2154 | 1 |
| 3692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18986249 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTEGRATING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGNCE INTO THE PROCESSING OF DATABASE RECORDS | CRESPO FEBLES, HECTOR J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18929046 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFYING CHRONIC AND SEVERE ACUTE MEDICAL CONDITIONS BASED ON ANALYSIS OF DATABASE RECORDS | LONG, FONYA M | 3682 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18770251 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING DATABASE RECORDS USING PREDEFINED LOW FRICTION ACTIONS | WALDRON, SCOTT A | 2152 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18494153 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED REMITTANCE VALUE OUTLIER DETECTION IN PROCESSING OF DATABASE RECORDS | MOSER, BRUCE M | 2154 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 114d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 18494092 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING CHARGE VALUES AFFECTING THE PROCESSING OF DATABASE RECORDS | FELTEN, DANIEL S | 3692 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 86d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
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