Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Esurance Insurance Services Inc. has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. HASBROUCK, MERRITT J is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that each of the 4 pending office actions is being handled by a different individual, providing a variety of examiner perspectives. The workload is spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating technical variety.
For a practitioner, this means that there is little opportunity to leverage a relationship with a single examiner across multiple files. The fact that the actions are spread over several art units suggests a diverse set of inventions despite the small total number of active matters. Each examiner is managing exactly one matter, so prosecution tactics must be adapted to four different individual styles. The 4 pending office actions represent the current active footprint of the company at the patent office. This distribution requires a strategy that accounts for multiple technical niches and examiner behaviors simultaneously.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HASBROUCK, MERRITT J | 1 | 9.7% | +7.0% |
| FU, HAO | 1 | 49.9% | +24.8% |
| BORLINGHAUS, JASON M | 1 | 47.5% | +21.5% |
| AKINTOLA, OLABODE | 1 | 50.6% | +8.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18196634 | VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION OF TRAFFIC INCIDENT BASED ON SENSOR DEVICE DATA | BORLINGHAUS, JASON M | 66d overdue |
| 18800893 | PROVIDING TRANSIT ALTERNATIVES BASED ON MONITORED VEHICLE CHARACTERISTICS | FU, HAO | 27d |
| 19036168 | PROPERTY INSPECTION USING AERIAL IMAGERY | HASBROUCK, MERRITT J | 28d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18196634 | VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION OF TRAFFIC INCIDENT BASED ON SENSOR DEVICE DATA | BORLINGHAUS, JASON M | 66d overdue |
| 18800893 | PROVIDING TRANSIT ALTERNATIVES BASED ON MONITORED VEHICLE CHARACTERISTICS | FU, HAO | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3695 | 2 |
| 3692 | 1 |
| 3691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19036168 | PROPERTY INSPECTION USING AERIAL IMAGERY | HASBROUCK, MERRITT J | 3695 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18800893 | PROVIDING TRANSIT ALTERNATIVES BASED ON MONITORED VEHICLE CHARACTERISTICS | FU, HAO | 3695 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18196634 | VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION OF TRAFFIC INCIDENT BASED ON SENSOR DEVICE DATA | BORLINGHAUS, JASON M | 3692 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
| 17840046 | TRANSMITTING DRIVING DATA TO AN INSURANCE PLATFORM | AKINTOLA, OLABODE | 3691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 67d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialEsurance Insurance Services Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Merritt J Hasbrouck has the most, with 1 of Esurance Insurance Services Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
