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
Figure Technologies Inc. operates within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area with 1 pending office action currently on record. This single action is distributed across 1 distinct examiner, showing a specific area of inquiry from the patent office. The concentration of the portfolio's active prosecution in a single distinct art unit suggests a streamlined technical focus.
The busiest examiner identified for the company is EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U, who is responsible for the busiest examiner pending count. This means the entirety of the company's current pending workload is managed by a single individual. For patent practitioners, this creates a situation where the outcome depends entirely on the interpretation of an examiner within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
With a single examiner handling the pending office action, the company avoids the complexities of managing multiple examiner styles simultaneously. The data reflects a portfolio that is currently in a very specific stage of examination, requiring targeted responses to the individual involved.
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 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | 1 | 1.9% | +1.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18800872 | INTEGRATED FINANCIAL SERVICES PLATFORMS AND METHODS OF USE | EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3695 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18800872 | INTEGRATED FINANCIAL SERVICES PLATFORMS AND METHODS OF USE | EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | 3695 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
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