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
Get Spiffy Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. TRUONG, MINH D is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single pending matter indicates a focused approach to patent prosecution, with the company's current efforts directed toward a specific technical solution. The company's prosecution is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit and involves 1 distinct examiner.
TRUONG, MINH D is responsible for 1 pending office action, which is the only active matter for the company at this time. This indicates that the entire current patent workload is being filtered through a single examiner and a single technical unit. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy should be highly tailored to the specific expectations and procedural habits of this examiner. Because the portfolio contains only 1 pending office action, there are no other active applications to provide alternative paths for securing intellectual property rights in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRUONG, MINH D | 1 | 67.3% | +23.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19035413 | PORTABLE AUTOMOTIVE WASTE OIL EXTRACTION DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE | TRUONG, MINH D | 18d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19035413 | PORTABLE AUTOMOTIVE WASTE OIL EXTRACTION DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE | TRUONG, MINH D | 18d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19035413 | PORTABLE AUTOMOTIVE WASTE OIL EXTRACTION DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE | TRUONG, MINH D | 3654 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
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