Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hrb Innovations Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This arrangement indicates that each pending matter is navigating a unique administrative path within the USPTO.
REBECCA R NOVAK is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because the 2 pending office actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, the company's prosecution risk is diversified. The 1 busiest examiner pending count shows that no single examiner is overwhelmed by the company's current filings.
Practitioners should be aware that the 2 distinct art units involved may have different internal cultures or examination timelines. Since the technology area covers Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems, the specific focus of each art unit could vary significantly. Managing 2 pending office actions under these conditions requires a customized approach for each examiner to address the specific requirements of their respective units.
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 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUDSON, MARLA LAVETTE | 1 | 55.5% | +23.6% |
| NOVAK, REBECCA R | 1 | 5.9% | +6.7% |
| KANERVO, VIRPI H | 1 | 47.5% | +47.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18216964 | INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT FOR TAX FILING | KANERVO, VIRPI H | 21d |
| 18372907 | LAYERED PROCESSING FOR CONSTRAINED FUND OPTIMIZATION | HUDSON, MARLA LAVETTE | — |
| 18369365 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING A CUSTOMER AND A CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSISTANT | NOVAK, REBECCA R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18216964 | INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT FOR TAX FILING | KANERVO, VIRPI H | 21d |
| 18372907 | LAYERED PROCESSING FOR CONSTRAINED FUND OPTIMIZATION | HUDSON, MARLA LAVETTE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3694 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| 3691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18372907 | LAYERED PROCESSING FOR CONSTRAINED FUND OPTIMIZATION | HUDSON, MARLA LAVETTE | 3694 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18369365 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING A CUSTOMER AND A CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSISTANT | NOVAK, REBECCA R | 3629 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18216964 | INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT FOR TAX FILING | KANERVO, VIRPI H | 3691 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
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