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
Guru Inc. operates in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area and currently has 1 pending office action. This indicates a focused effort to secure patent rights for their mechanical or e-commerce systems. The presence of a single action suggests that the company is currently navigating the examination process for a specific part of its technology.
The prosecution is characterized by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This level of concentration shows that the company's current patent activity is confined to a specific technical domain within the broader transportation and e-commerce sector. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy is streamlined, as it involves only one examiner's perspective and one art unit's standards.
LI, YONGHONG is the busiest examiner for Guru Inc., with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since this examiner is the only one currently reviewing the company's pending work, their specific examination history is a key consideration. Practitioners should analyze the examiner's past actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area to prepare for the 1 pending 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, YONGHONG | 1 | 76.5% | +22.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16844871 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEGMENTED MOTION SENSING | LI, YONGHONG | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16844871 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEGMENTED MOTION SENSING | LI, YONGHONG | 3648 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 09, 2020 |
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