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
Futurecite Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This prosecution activity is confined to a distinct art unit and a distinct examiner, representing a singular point of contact at the USPTO. The company's current strategy is therefore highly dependent on the specific examination environment and procedural expectations of this particular art unit.
The busiest examiner, SHORTER, RASHIDA R, is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending action. For this portfolio, the entirety of the pending workload is subject to the discretion of this examiner, making their specific examination style the primary factor in current prosecution success. With only a single examiner involved, the company does not currently face the challenge of coordinating multiple responses across different examiners or art units. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will determine the immediate growth of the company's Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHORTER, RASHIDA R | 1 | 18.1% | +26.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18842330 | FACILITATING PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF AN INDIVIDUAL | SHORTER, RASHIDA 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18842330 | FACILITATING PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF AN INDIVIDUAL | SHORTER, RASHIDA R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18842330 | FACILITATING PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF AN INDIVIDUAL | SHORTER, RASHIDA R | 3626 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
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