Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Innovation Associates Inc. has 6 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 6 pending office actions are distributed among 6 distinct examiners, resulting in a unique examiner for every single pending matter. Furthermore, these actions are spread across 6 distinct art units, indicating a high level of organizational fragmentation within the USPTO for this portfolio. This 1:1 ratio of 6 pending office actions to 6 distinct art units suggests that each application may be touching on a different sub-specialty within the broader technology area.
The busiest examiner is WEEKS, GLORIA R, who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 6 distinct examiners for 6 pending office actions, the workload is evenly split. The requirement to interface with 6 distinct art units for only 6 pending office actions presents a significant administrative challenge, as each unit may have different internal cultures or timelines. Practitioners should be aware that the 6 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems will not benefit from examiner or art unit consistency, requiring 6 distinct strategies. This high level of diversity across 6 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units demands a highly coordinated approach to prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (17%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEEKS, GLORIA R | 1 | 70.4% | +12.4% |
| KONERU, SUJAY | 1 | 58.2% | +37.6% |
| PAN, YUHUI R | 1 | 83.3% | +22.1% |
| JORGENSEN, ABBY A | 1 | 74.0% | +14.1% |
| HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 1 | 79.1% | +10.8% |
| TIEDEMAN, JASON S | 1 | 28.5% | +34.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18612760 | MEDICATION CONTAINER QUEUE SYSTEM AND APPARATUS | PAN, YUHUI R | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18623319 | AUDIT-BASED COMPLIANCE DETECTION FOR HEALTHCARE SITES | KONERU, SUJAY | 52d overdue |
| 18805199 | MULTI-BAGGER LINEAR ORGANIZER | WEEKS, GLORIA R | 46d overdue |
| 16891685 | SYSTEM, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR REMOTE VERIFICATION OF PHARMACY PRESCRIPTION PREPARATION | TIEDEMAN, JASON S | 17d overdue |
| 18430232 | TRANSPORT TUBE FOR MULTIPLE CONTAINERS | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18623319 | AUDIT-BASED COMPLIANCE DETECTION FOR HEALTHCARE SITES | KONERU, SUJAY | 52d overdue |
| 18805199 | MULTI-BAGGER LINEAR ORGANIZER | WEEKS, GLORIA R | 46d overdue |
| 16891685 | SYSTEM, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR REMOTE VERIFICATION OF PHARMACY PRESCRIPTION PREPARATION | TIEDEMAN, JASON S | 17d overdue |
| 18430042 | MULTI-BAGGER LINEAR ORGANIZER | JORGENSEN, ABBY A | 63d |
| 18612760 | MEDICATION CONTAINER QUEUE SYSTEM AND APPARATUS | PAN, YUHUI R | — |
| 18430232 | TRANSPORT TUBE FOR MULTIPLE CONTAINERS | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18805199 | MULTI-BAGGER LINEAR ORGANIZER | WEEKS, GLORIA R | 3731 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18623319 | AUDIT-BASED COMPLIANCE DETECTION FOR HEALTHCARE SITES | KONERU, SUJAY | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 52d overdue | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18612760 | MEDICATION CONTAINER QUEUE SYSTEM AND APPARATUS | PAN, YUHUI R | 2116 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18430042 | MULTI-BAGGER LINEAR ORGANIZER | JORGENSEN, ABBY A | 3651 | §103 | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18430232 | TRANSPORT TUBE FOR MULTIPLE CONTAINERS | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 3653 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 16891685 | SYSTEM, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR REMOTE VERIFICATION OF PHARMACY PRESCRIPTION PREPARATION | TIEDEMAN, JASON S | 3683 | §101 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Jun 03, 2020 |
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