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 • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
Government Employees Insurance Company (Geico) has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, PUTTAIAH, ASHA, within 1 distinct art unit. PUTTAIAH, ASHA is also the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, representing the entirety of the company's current active workload.
With 1 pending office action, the company's prosecution efforts are highly concentrated. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner, PUTTAIAH, ASHA, means that the outcome of the company's current filing depends on a single individual's review. This 1 pending office action is situated in 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a specific technological focus for the company's intellectual property.
For the practitioner, managing 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit allows for a streamlined and direct communication process. There are no other pending matters to coordinate, and the strategy can be entirely focused on the requirements of the assigned official. The 1 pending office action is the sole focus of the company's current activity in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUTTAIAH, ASHA | 1 | 21.0% | +20.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18212365 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A COLLAPSIBLE SIDEBAR | PUTTAIAH, ASHA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18212365 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A COLLAPSIBLE SIDEBAR | PUTTAIAH, ASHA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18212365 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A COLLAPSIBLE SIDEBAR | PUTTAIAH, ASHA | 3691 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGovernment Employees Insurance Company (Geico) has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Asha Puttaiah has the most, with 1 of Government Employees Insurance Company (Geico)'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
