Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Iterate Studio Inc. is managing 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a singular focus for the company's current legal efforts in this specific technology sector. For a practitioner, this concentration means that the outcome of the current portfolio status depends entirely on the interactions with this specific examiner in a single art unit.
HATCHER, DEIRDRE D is the busiest examiner, responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action represents the total pending workload for the company. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the company's immediate patent strategy is concentrated on a single point of contact within the USPTO. This lack of diversification in examiners or art units means that the company's current patent prospects are tied to the evaluation of HATCHER, DEIRDRE D within that 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences and history of this examiner.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HATCHER, DEIRDRE D | 1 | 28.1% | +24.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18599017 | GENERATION OF ENTITY PLANS COMPRISING GOALS AND NODES | HATCHER, DEIRDRE D | 16d overdue |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18599017 | GENERATION OF ENTITY PLANS COMPRISING GOALS AND NODES | HATCHER, DEIRDRE D | 16d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18599017 | GENERATION OF ENTITY PLANS COMPRISING GOALS AND NODES | HATCHER, DEIRDRE D | 3625 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
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