Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
GM Cruise Holidings LLC has 1 pending office action currently active in its patent portfolio. This matter is assigned to examiner SMITH, KEVIN LEE, who is the 1 distinct examiner identified for the company. Although the data indicates 0 distinct art units, the 1 pending office action confirms that the company is actively engaged in the prosecution process. The 1 pending action is entirely under the authority of SMITH, KEVIN LEE, making this examiner the sole point of contact for the company's current matters.
The 1 pending office action is the only active case for SMITH, KEVIN LEE within this portfolio. With 0 distinct art units and only 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution is extremely centralized. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination patterns of SMITH, KEVIN LEE to navigate the 1 pending action effectively. This profile suggests a very narrow set of active patent applications without any diversification across different examiners or art units.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, KEVIN LEE | 1 | 36.9% | +20.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18520241 | Data Mining on an Edge Platform Using Repurposed Neural Network Models in Autonomous Systems | SMITH, KEVIN LEE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18520241 | Data Mining on an Edge Platform Using Repurposed Neural Network Models in Autonomous Systems | SMITH, KEVIN LEE | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18520241 | Data Mining on an Edge Platform Using Repurposed Neural Network Models in Autonomous Systems | SMITH, KEVIN LEE | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
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