Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
GE Financial Assurance Holdings Inc. exhibits a diversified prosecution strategy within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently includes 2 pending office actions, which are distributed among 2 distinct examiners. This arrangement indicates that the company is not reliant on an individual for its current patent approvals, potentially mitigating the risk associated with any examiner's specific review style.
The active matters are further separated across 2 distinct art units, showing that the company's technical interests span multiple specialized divisions within the patent office. NGUYEN, NGA B is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is distributed among the 2 distinct examiners. For a practitioner, this suggests a need to navigate different art unit cultures and examiner expectations simultaneously, as the examiners will likely apply varying degrees of scrutiny to the pending applications.
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%) |
| §101 + 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, NGA B | 1 | 53.0% | +25.2% |
| REYES, REGINALD R | 1 | 41.0% | +31.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10643885 | Systems and methods for documenting home care services | REYES, REGINALD R | 4d overdue |
| 12144118 | Method and system for portable retirement investment | NGUYEN, NGA B | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10643885 | Systems and methods for documenting home care services | REYES, REGINALD R | 4d overdue |
| 12144118 | Method and system for portable retirement investment | NGUYEN, NGA B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3625 | 1 |
| 3684 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12144118 | Method and system for portable retirement investment | NGUYEN, NGA B | 3625 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2008 |
| 10643885 | Systems and methods for documenting home care services | REYES, REGINALD R | 3684 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Aug 20, 2003 |
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