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
Friday Pm Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This prosecution is being conducted by 1 distinct examiner and is located in 1 distinct art unit. Such a concentrated distribution suggests that the company's current patenting efforts are focused on a very specific mechanical or e-commerce advancement. The alignment of these resources indicates a streamlined approach to intellectual property development in this sector.
FLYNN, ABBY J is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently under review. Because there is 1 distinct examiner, the company's prosecution strategy is dependent on the specific feedback and requirements of Flynn. The presence of 1 distinct art unit ensures that the 1 pending action is subject to a consistent set of transportation and mechanical examination standards. This allows for a predictable prosecution environment for the company.
For practitioners, the 1 pending office action represents a docket that requires minimal administrative overhead. The ability to interact with 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit allows for a direct and efficient resolution of the pending matter. Strategy should be informed by the specific technical trends within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field as they relate to this single examiner's actions. Maintaining a clear dialogue with the assigned examiner will be a factor in achieving a favorable outcome.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLYNN, ABBY J | 1 | 33.0% | +55.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18003094 | Systems and Methods for Adaptive Workspace Layout and Usage Optimization | FLYNN, ABBY J | 6d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18003094 | Systems and Methods for Adaptive Workspace Layout and Usage Optimization | FLYNN, ABBY J | 6d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18003094 | Systems and Methods for Adaptive Workspace Layout and Usage Optimization | FLYNN, ABBY J | 3663 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
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