Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fronteo Inc. is actively prosecuting applications within the Communications technology area. The portfolio currently features 2 pending office actions, which are distributed across 2 distinct examiners. These actions are also spread across 2 distinct art units, suggesting a relatively diverse set of technical inquiries or a broader scope within the communications field. This distribution indicates that the company is pursuing multiple distinct technological paths simultaneously.
MAHROUKA, WASSIM is identified as the busiest examiner for Fronteo Inc., with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 action is part of the 2 total pending office actions for the company. The distribution across 2 examiners and 2 art units indicates that the company's intellectual property strategy involves multiple points of contact and varied technical reviews within the patent office. This variety in examiners and art units may require the company to manage different prosecution timelines and examiner expectations within the communications sector.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAHROUKA, WASSIM | 1 | 86.1% | +7.9% |
| BAHL, SANGEETA | 1 | 20.7% | +19.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18605407 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION | MAHROUKA, WASSIM | 62d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18295607 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION | BAHL, SANGEETA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18295607 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION | BAHL, SANGEETA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2665 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18605407 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION | MAHROUKA, WASSIM | 2665 | §103DPOther | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18295607 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION | BAHL, SANGEETA | 3626 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2023 |
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