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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
January Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This active matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The current prosecution activity is limited to this 1 pending case, which suggests a very targeted approach to the company's current intellectual property development. This focus allows the applicant to dedicate resources to a specific set of claims.
The busiest examiner for January Inc. is BLANCHETTE, JOSHUA B, who is handling 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio currently involves only 1 distinct examiner, this individual manages all of the company's pending office action responses. This represents a focused and streamlined interaction with the patent office. The practitioner's strategy must be tailored to the specific requirements of this 1 examiner, as there are no other pending matters to balance the outcomes.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLANCHETTE, JOSHUA B | 1 | 47.8% | +31.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18958126 | METHODS FOR MAXIMUM JOINT PROBABILITY ASSIGNMENT TO SEQUENTIAL BINARY RANDOM VARIABLES IN QUADRATIC TIME COMPLEXITY | BLANCHETTE, JOSHUA B | 35d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3684 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18958126 | METHODS FOR MAXIMUM JOINT PROBABILITY ASSIGNMENT TO SEQUENTIAL BINARY RANDOM VARIABLES IN QUADRATIC TIME COMPLEXITY | BLANCHETTE, JOSHUA B | 3684 | §112 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
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