Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Iceye OY maintains 7 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are spread across 6 distinct examiners, which suggests that the company is receiving feedback from a variety of different patent office officials. The portfolio spans 4 distinct art units, indicating that the company's technical innovations touch upon several different specialized areas within the broader transportation and mechanical systems sector.
BARKER, MATTHEW M is the busiest examiner for the company, with 2 pending office actions currently under review. This examiner manages 2 of the 7 pending office actions, while the other distinct examiners handle the rest of the workload. The presence of 4 distinct art units means that practitioners must be prepared to address diverse technical standards and examination practices. Coordinating strategies across the 6 distinct examiners will be necessary to maintain consistency in the company's prosecution outcomes.
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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARKER, MATTHEW M | 2 | 72.6% | +14.9% |
| YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | 1 | 77.6% | +14.6% |
| FRAZIER, BRADY W | 1 | 78.4% | +27.3% |
| CROSS, JULIANA MARIA | 1 | 82.5% | +18.4% |
| MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE | 1 | 45.3% | +35.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18722132 | HIGH RESOLUTION WIDE SWATH SAR IMAGING | CROSS, JULIANA MARIA | 29d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19106847 | FLUID STORAGE MONITORING | BARKER, MATTHEW M | 53d |
| 19115689 | DRY-BULK STOCKPILE MONITORING | BARKER, MATTHEW M | — |
| 18879476 | SATELLITE THERMAL CONTROL | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | — |
| 18851373 | DETECTING AND SUPPRESSING AMBIGUITIES IN SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA AND IMAGES | FRAZIER, BRADY W | — |
| 18701704 | SATELLITE OPERATION AND PROCESSING OF SATELLITE STATE DATA | MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18722132 | HIGH RESOLUTION WIDE SWATH SAR IMAGING | CROSS, JULIANA MARIA | 29d |
| 19106847 | FLUID STORAGE MONITORING | BARKER, MATTHEW M | 53d |
| 19115689 | DRY-BULK STOCKPILE MONITORING | BARKER, MATTHEW M | — |
| 18879476 | SATELLITE THERMAL CONTROL | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | — |
| 18851373 | DETECTING AND SUPPRESSING AMBIGUITIES IN SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA AND IMAGES | FRAZIER, BRADY W | — |
| 18701704 | SATELLITE OPERATION AND PROCESSING OF SATELLITE STATE DATA | MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3646 | 2 |
| 3644 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19115689 | DRY-BULK STOCKPILE MONITORING | BARKER, MATTHEW M | 3646 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19106847 | FLUID STORAGE MONITORING | BARKER, MATTHEW M | 3646 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 53d | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 18879476 | SATELLITE THERMAL CONTROL | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | 3644 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18851373 | DETECTING AND SUPPRESSING AMBIGUITIES IN SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA AND IMAGES | FRAZIER, BRADY W | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18722132 | HIGH RESOLUTION WIDE SWATH SAR IMAGING | CROSS, JULIANA MARIA | 3648 | §112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18701704 | SATELLITE OPERATION AND PROCESSING OF SATELLITE STATE DATA | MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE | 3663 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
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