Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hatchmed Corporation currently has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Both of these active matters are being processed within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a high degree of technical similarity between the applications. The company is working with a distinct examiner to address these actions, which centralizes the prosecution of the current portfolio.
The busiest examiner, HIGGS, STELLA EUN, is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This figure matches the total of 2 pending office actions, meaning this single examiner is handling all of the company's current workload. This concentration under a distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit allows for a unified prosecution approach for the pending matters within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
For the practitioner, the fact that a distinct examiner is managing the pending office actions is significant. It implies that the examiner's feedback on a specific case may be highly relevant to the other, given they are both within the same art unit. This structure offers an opportunity to apply consistent arguments across the company's active patent applications.
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 + other | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIGGS, STELLA EUN | 2 | 39.2% | +34.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19015518 | AI-BASED HOSPITAL ROOM MANAGEMENT | HIGGS, STELLA EUN | 26d overdue |
| 18334635 | SERVER-BASED HEALTHCARE PATIENT SERVICES | HIGGS, STELLA EUN | 35d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19015518 | AI-BASED HOSPITAL ROOM MANAGEMENT | HIGGS, STELLA EUN | 26d overdue |
| 18334635 | SERVER-BASED HEALTHCARE PATIENT SERVICES | HIGGS, STELLA EUN | 35d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3681 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19015518 | AI-BASED HOSPITAL ROOM MANAGEMENT | HIGGS, STELLA EUN | 3681 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18334635 | SERVER-BASED HEALTHCARE PATIENT SERVICES | HIGGS, STELLA EUN | 3681 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial