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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gatik AI Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very narrow and specific point of interaction with the patent office for the company's current filings, requiring a highly targeted legal approach.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because this action constitutes the entire pending workload, the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the interaction with this specific individual. Understanding the history and preferences of ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector is critical for moving this application forward.
The use of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology being patented is specialized and fits within a specific examination framework. With only 1 pending office action to manage, the administrative burden is low, allowing for a focused legal effort. The outcome of the current prosecution rests solely with the decisions made by the 1 distinct examiner, making direct communication and precise claim drafting essential.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P | 1 | 42.0% | +25.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17962459 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATION OF FLEET VEHICLES | ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P | 46d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17962459 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATION OF FLEET VEHICLES | ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P | 3662 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Oct 07, 2022 |
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