Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Genworth Holdings Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently includes 4 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, which indicates a decentralized prosecution process. Furthermore, the work is spread among 4 distinct art units, suggesting that the portfolio covers a variety of technical sub-sectors within the broader technology area.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is BAIRD, EDWARD J. This examiner is currently handling 1 pending office action. Since there are 4 pending office actions in total, the workload is shared among the 4 distinct examiners. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy must be adapted to the specific requirements of 4 different individuals and 4 different art units. No single examiner or art unit dominates the current activity, requiring a broad approach to managing the company intellectual property.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 4 (80%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAIRD, EDWARD J | 1 | 49.2% | +67.3% |
| ALLADIN, AMBREEN A | 1 | 24.6% | +24.4% |
| MERCHANT, SHAHID R | 1 | 28.3% | +24.8% |
| RANKINS, WILLIAM E | 1 | 57.6% | +8.1% |
| KAZIMI, HANI M | 1 | 48.5% | +19.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13854516 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POOL RISK ASSESSMENT | KAZIMI, HANI M | 3d overdue |
| 13854350 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR PROVIDING MULTIPLE INCOME START DATES FOR ANNUITIES | RANKINS, WILLIAM E | 7d |
| 14821967 | Systems and Methods for Providing a Benefit Product with Periodic Guaranteed Income | BAIRD, EDWARD J | — |
| 14450580 | System and Method for Imbedding a Defined Benefit in a Defined Contribution Plan | ALLADIN, AMBREEN A | — |
| 14057381 | Systems and Methods for Performing Workflow | MERCHANT, SHAHID 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13854516 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POOL RISK ASSESSMENT | KAZIMI, HANI M | 3d overdue |
| 14821967 | Systems and Methods for Providing a Benefit Product with Periodic Guaranteed Income | BAIRD, EDWARD J | — |
| 14450580 | System and Method for Imbedding a Defined Benefit in a Defined Contribution Plan | ALLADIN, AMBREEN A | — |
| 14057381 | Systems and Methods for Performing Workflow | MERCHANT, SHAHID R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3691 | 2 |
| 3692 | 1 |
| 3600 | 1 |
| 3694 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14821967 | Systems and Methods for Providing a Benefit Product with Periodic Guaranteed Income | BAIRD, EDWARD J | 3692 | §101Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2015 |
| 14450580 | System and Method for Imbedding a Defined Benefit in a Defined Contribution Plan | ALLADIN, AMBREEN A | 3691 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2014 |
| 14057381 | Systems and Methods for Performing Workflow | MERCHANT, SHAHID R | 3600 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2013 |
| 13854350 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR PROVIDING MULTIPLE INCOME START DATES FOR ANNUITIES | RANKINS, WILLIAM E | 3694 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Apr 01, 2013 |
| 13854516 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POOL RISK ASSESSMENT | KAZIMI, HANI M | 3691 | §101 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 01, 2013 |
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