Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Idemia Identity & Security Usa LLC is managing 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This workload is handled by 3 distinct examiners, creating a distributed point of contact for the company's current legal strategy. The prosecution is situated within 3 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse technical focus for the pending applications.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ROBINSON, AKIBA KANELLE, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As there are 3 pending office actions total, this examiner manages a portion of the current activity for the company. The alignment of 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units suggests that the company is navigating multiple examination paths across different office departments.
Practitioners should note that the prosecution of the pending workload depends on the review of 3 distinct examiners. With 3 distinct art units involved, the prior art landscape is likely varied across different groups. The company's presence in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems is currently represented by these interactions at the patent office.
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 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBINSON, AKIBA KANELLE | 1 | 38.2% | +24.6% |
| RHODES, JR, LEON W | 1 | 82.4% | +11.6% |
| HARTMANN, ERIN MARIE | 1 | 75.0% | +37.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18892172 | SINGLE, SUPPORT ARMATURE CAMERA TOWER INCLUDING POSITIONAL ADJUSTMENT ASSEMBLIES | RHODES, JR, LEON W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18143153 | METHODS, MOBILE APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HARTMANN, ERIN MARIE | 121d overdue |
| 18975694 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOTE PROCTORING | ROBINSON, AKIBA KANELLE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18143153 | METHODS, MOBILE APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HARTMANN, ERIN MARIE | 121d overdue |
| 18975694 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOTE PROCTORING | ROBINSON, AKIBA KANELLE | — |
| 18892172 | SINGLE, SUPPORT ARMATURE CAMERA TOWER INCLUDING POSITIONAL ADJUSTMENT ASSEMBLIES | RHODES, JR, LEON W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3626 | 1 |
| 2852 | 1 |
| 3664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18975694 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOTE PROCTORING | ROBINSON, AKIBA KANELLE | 3626 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18892172 | SINGLE, SUPPORT ARMATURE CAMERA TOWER INCLUDING POSITIONAL ADJUSTMENT ASSEMBLIES | RHODES, JR, LEON W | 2852 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18143153 | METHODS, MOBILE APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | HARTMANN, ERIN MARIE | 3664 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 121d overdue | Pending | May 04, 2023 |
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