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
Interac Corp. manages 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This one-to-one ratio suggests that each of the 2 pending office actions is undergoing a separate review process within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
KANAAN, TONY P is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action represents a portion of the 2 pending office actions for the company. With 2 distinct examiners involved, the prosecution workload is divided equally between the assigned officials.
The 2 distinct art units indicate that the 2 pending office actions are being handled in different administrative sections of the patent office. KANAAN, TONY P is one of the 2 distinct examiners assigned to these cases. This distribution across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units ensures independent scrutiny for each of the 2 pending office actions at Interac Corp.
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 | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLLOCK, GREGORY A | 1 | 11.1% | +12.5% |
| KANAAN, TONY P | 1 | 28.7% | +27.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18496556 | DEVICE AND METHOD OF DEVICE DISCOVERY FOR TRANSACTIONS AMONG CLIENT DEVICES BASED ON A LOCAL TRANSACTION ARCHITECTURE | KANAAN, TONY P | 43d overdue |
| 18496617 | DEVICE AND METHOD OF DEVICE DISCOVERY FOR TRANSACTIONS AMONG CLIENT DEVICES BASED ON A LOCAL TRANSACTION ARCHITECTURE | POLLOCK, GREGORY 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18496556 | DEVICE AND METHOD OF DEVICE DISCOVERY FOR TRANSACTIONS AMONG CLIENT DEVICES BASED ON A LOCAL TRANSACTION ARCHITECTURE | KANAAN, TONY P | 43d overdue |
| 18496617 | DEVICE AND METHOD OF DEVICE DISCOVERY FOR TRANSACTIONS AMONG CLIENT DEVICES BASED ON A LOCAL TRANSACTION ARCHITECTURE | POLLOCK, GREGORY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3691 | 1 |
| 3696 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18496617 | DEVICE AND METHOD OF DEVICE DISCOVERY FOR TRANSACTIONS AMONG CLIENT DEVICES BASED ON A LOCAL TRANSACTION ARCHITECTURE | POLLOCK, GREGORY A | 3691 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18496556 | DEVICE AND METHOD OF DEVICE DISCOVERY FOR TRANSACTIONS AMONG CLIENT DEVICES BASED ON A LOCAL TRANSACTION ARCHITECTURE | KANAAN, TONY P | 3696 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
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