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
Hex Holdings 2022, LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a very specific technical focus for the company. This narrow distribution allows the company to concentrate its legal resources on a single point of contact at the patent office. The concentration of 1 pending office action in 1 distinct art unit suggests a highly specialized mechanical or e-commerce focus.
The busiest examiner, ZHOU, YINGYING, is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 action represents the company's entire active portfolio, making the examiner's feedback the most critical element for their current intellectual property strategy. With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the company can tailor its arguments to the specific requirements of that unit. This centralized approach ensures that all efforts are directed toward advancing the 1 pending office action through the examination process efficiently with the assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHOU, YINGYING | 1 | 47.7% | +46.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18178221 | SYSTEM AND EXCHANGE FOR MANAGING RIGHTS OF PUBLICITY | ZHOU, YINGYING | 3d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18178221 | SYSTEM AND EXCHANGE FOR MANAGING RIGHTS OF PUBLICITY | ZHOU, YINGYING | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3697 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18178221 | SYSTEM AND EXCHANGE FOR MANAGING RIGHTS OF PUBLICITY | ZHOU, YINGYING | 3697 | §101 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Mar 03, 2023 |
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