Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Jcm American Corporation is managing 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is being reviewed by a different person. This distribution ensures that no single examiner has a dominant role in the current workload.
The workload is spread across 4 distinct art units, suggesting that the examiners are mostly located in different technical groups. PATEL, NEHA is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. This confirms that the pending office actions are evenly split among the examining staff.
For the company, the involvement of 4 distinct art units within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area requires a strategy that accounts for the standards of multiple technical divisions. Success depends on navigating the unique perspectives of the 5 distinct examiners involved in the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 1 (20%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, NEHA | 1 | 23.2% | +21.0% |
| FITZPATRICK, ATIBA O | 1 | 87.5% | +6.0% |
| CRAWLEY, TALIA F | 1 | 48.4% | +25.3% |
| PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | 1 | 75.7% | +28.4% |
| SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | 1 | 55.1% | +15.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19044466 | Transaction Methods for Mobile Wallet Operations in a Gaming Environment | PATEL, NEHA | 12d |
| 18581318 | NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR GAMING INDUSTRY ACCOUNTING | PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | 41d |
| 18983177 | EVALUATING CURRENCY IN AREAS USING IMAGE PROCESSING | FITZPATRICK, ATIBA O | — |
| 18886859 | REDEMPTION KIOSK INCORPORATING A SLOT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | CRAWLEY, TALIA F | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19044466 | Transaction Methods for Mobile Wallet Operations in a Gaming Environment | PATEL, NEHA | 12d |
| 18581318 | NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR GAMING INDUSTRY ACCOUNTING | PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | 41d |
| 18886859 | REDEMPTION KIOSK INCORPORATING A SLOT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | CRAWLEY, TALIA F | — |
| 17027950 | Automated Processing the Output of Count Sort Machines | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3699 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19044466 | Transaction Methods for Mobile Wallet Operations in a Gaming Environment | PATEL, NEHA | 3699 | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 18983177 | EVALUATING CURRENCY IN AREAS USING IMAGE PROCESSING | FITZPATRICK, ATIBA O | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18886859 | REDEMPTION KIOSK INCORPORATING A SLOT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | CRAWLEY, TALIA F | 3627 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18581318 | NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR GAMING INDUSTRY ACCOUNTING | PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
| 17027950 | Automated Processing the Output of Count Sort Machines | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | 3619 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2020 |
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