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
Forethought Technologies Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This active matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner, GOLDBERG, IVAN R, who is also identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The concentration of work is limited to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly focused prosecution footprint at this stage.
Because GOLDBERG, IVAN R is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending action, the company's immediate legal strategy depends entirely on the outcomes from this specific individual. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the current intellectual property efforts are centralized within a specific technical niche rather than being distributed across multiple regulatory groups. Practitioners should note that the portfolio's current activity is consolidated, requiring no coordination across different examiners or art units.
This focused approach in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area allows for a deep but narrow engagement with the patent office. The 1 pending office action represents the total current workload, making the assigned official's perspective the primary factor in the company's near-term patent success. Without additional distinct examiners or art units, the portfolio lacks the diversification seen in larger or more varied corporate patent holdings.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLDBERG, IVAN R | 1 | 35.3% | +35.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18934015 | AUTOMATIC QUALITY ASSURANCE FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND INTENT DETECTION | GOLDBERG, IVAN R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18934015 | AUTOMATIC QUALITY ASSURANCE FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND INTENT DETECTION | GOLDBERG, IVAN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18934015 | AUTOMATIC QUALITY ASSURANCE FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND INTENT DETECTION | GOLDBERG, IVAN R | 3619 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
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