Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Guidewire Software Inc. manages 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 4 actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is being handled by a different individual in a unique technical group at the USPTO.
Hai Tran is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 4 pending actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is fully decentralized across the identified individuals. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms that no single examiner holds a dominant position over the company's current filings.
The use of 4 distinct art units for 4 pending office actions suggests a diverse range of technical applications within the portfolio. Practitioners should be prepared to manage 4 distinct examiner relationships, each potentially bringing a different perspective to the prosecution. This structure requires a coordinated approach to ensure consistency across the 4 different art units involved in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, HAI | 1 | 62.1% | +31.8% |
| POINVIL, FRANTZY | 1 | 79.0% | +15.3% |
| NEWLON, WILLIAM D | 1 | 46.6% | +28.2% |
| POLLOCK, GREGORY A | 1 | 11.1% | +12.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14461711 | INSURANCE PRODUCT MODEL RELATIONSHIPS | POLLOCK, GREGORY A | 44d overdue |
| 18407317 | OPERATIONAL DATA CORRESPONDING TO A PRODUCT MODEL | POINVIL, FRANTZY | 19d overdue |
| 19330711 | CUSTOM DATA | TRAN, HAI | — |
| 18526961 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING REVISIONS AND TRACKING OF INSURANCE POLICY ELEMENTS | NEWLON, WILLIAM D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14461711 | INSURANCE PRODUCT MODEL RELATIONSHIPS | POLLOCK, GREGORY A | 44d overdue |
| 18407317 | OPERATIONAL DATA CORRESPONDING TO A PRODUCT MODEL | POINVIL, FRANTZY | 19d overdue |
| 19330711 | CUSTOM DATA | TRAN, HAI | — |
| 18526961 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING REVISIONS AND TRACKING OF INSURANCE POLICY ELEMENTS | NEWLON, WILLIAM D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3695 | 1 |
| 3693 | 1 |
| 3696 | 1 |
| 3691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19330711 | CUSTOM DATA | TRAN, HAI | 3695 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2025 |
| 18407317 | OPERATIONAL DATA CORRESPONDING TO A PRODUCT MODEL | POINVIL, FRANTZY | 3693 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18526961 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING REVISIONS AND TRACKING OF INSURANCE POLICY ELEMENTS | NEWLON, WILLIAM D | 3696 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 14461711 | INSURANCE PRODUCT MODEL RELATIONSHIPS | POLLOCK, GREGORY A | 3691 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Aug 18, 2014 |
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