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
Geology Team 103 Bureau Of Geology And Mineral Exploration And Development Guizhou Province has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution is currently focused on 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific and narrow area of active patenting. The focus on a single art unit suggests that the company's current innovations are being evaluated against a consistent set of technical standards and prior art.
The busiest examiner, GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE, is handling the pending office action. As this is the company's only active case, the examiner's interpretation of the art unit's guidelines is the central factor in the prosecution. Practitioners should focus on meeting the specific expectations of this single official. This concentrated approach allows for a deep focus on the examiner's individual preferences without the need to coordinate across multiple departments or art units for the 1 pending office action.
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 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE | 1 | 23.3% | +34.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18764104 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING OPEN-PIT MINE PRODUCTION PLANS BASED ON TIME-SERIES PREDICTION OF COPPER PRICE | GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE | 71d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18764104 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING OPEN-PIT MINE PRODUCTION PLANS BASED ON TIME-SERIES PREDICTION OF COPPER PRICE | GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE | 71d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18764104 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING OPEN-PIT MINE PRODUCTION PLANS BASED ON TIME-SERIES PREDICTION OF COPPER PRICE | GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE | 3625 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
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