Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hyland Software Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are spread across 2 distinct art units and involve 2 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that the company's current filings cover diverse aspects of its technology area. With 2 pending office actions, the company is maintaining a presence in multiple technical sectors of the patent office simultaneously.
HAMILTON, MATTHEW L is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 pending office action. With a busiest examiner pending count of 1, the workload is split between the 2 distinct examiners. Success in these matters will require addressing the specific requirements of each individual examiner. Because the 2 pending office actions are in 2 distinct art units, the company must adapt its prosecution strategy to the different procedural and technical standards of each unit. This variety in 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units requires a flexible approach to patent advocacy.
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 (50%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAMILTON, MATTHEW L | 1 | 53.5% | +61.4% |
| NILFOROUSH, MOHAMMAD A | 1 | 30.8% | +36.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18753075 | CROSS-ENTERPRISE DOCUMENT SHARING (XDS) METADATA MORPHING | HAMILTON, MATTHEW L | 16d |
| 18406678 | COMPUTING SYSTEM FOR CONFIGURABLE OFF-CHAIN STORAGE FOR BLOCKCHAINS | NILFOROUSH, MOHAMMAD A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18753075 | CROSS-ENTERPRISE DOCUMENT SHARING (XDS) METADATA MORPHING | HAMILTON, MATTHEW L | 16d |
| 18406678 | COMPUTING SYSTEM FOR CONFIGURABLE OFF-CHAIN STORAGE FOR BLOCKCHAINS | NILFOROUSH, MOHAMMAD A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3682 | 1 |
| 3697 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18753075 | CROSS-ENTERPRISE DOCUMENT SHARING (XDS) METADATA MORPHING | HAMILTON, MATTHEW L | 3682 | §101 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18406678 | COMPUTING SYSTEM FOR CONFIGURABLE OFF-CHAIN STORAGE FOR BLOCKCHAINS | NILFOROUSH, MOHAMMAD A | 3697 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
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