Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Fairshares Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to RANKINS, WILLIAM E, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The portfolio's active workload is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit.
This suggests a targeted approach to its current transportation-related filings. The resolution of the 1 pending office action will be the primary factor in the company's near-term progress within this technology area. Practitioners should analyze the specific history of RANKINS, WILLIAM E to optimize the response for the active matter.
The concentration in a single art unit indicates a specialized technical focus that has not yet branched into broader mechanical or e-commerce disciplines. Because the entire active workload resides with an individual examiner, the firm's strategy is highly sensitive to the specific requirements of that official. Future filings may eventually diversify the portfolio across more units as the company expands its intellectual property footprint.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RANKINS, WILLIAM E | 1 | 57.6% | +8.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18273412 | Payment System and Method for Improving Security Pricing Using Digital Tokens in a Closed Loop | RANKINS, WILLIAM E | 42d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3694 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18273412 | Payment System and Method for Improving Security Pricing Using Digital Tokens in a Closed Loop | RANKINS, WILLIAM E | 3694 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
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