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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Jingdong Kunpeng (Jiangsu) Technology Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. HENSON, BRANDON JAMES is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units indicates a broader reach within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector compared to more concentrated portfolios. While HENSON, BRANDON JAMES is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action, the workload involves 2 distinct examiners in total. This structure provides the company with multiple points of contact at the patent office, reducing the impact of any single examiner's tendencies on the overall portfolio. Practitioners should manage these 2 pending office actions by tailoring responses to the specific requirements of each distinct art unit and examiner involved. The resolution of the 1 busiest examiner pending action remains a key component of the strategy in this technology area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 1 | 68.2% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18556756 | GROUND POINT CLOUD SEGMENTATION METHOD AND APPARATUS AND AUTOMATIC VEHICLE | HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 13d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18556756 | GROUND POINT CLOUD SEGMENTATION METHOD AND APPARATUS AND AUTOMATIC VEHICLE | HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 13d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18556756 | GROUND POINT CLOUD SEGMENTATION METHOD AND APPARATUS AND AUTOMATIC VEHICLE | HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 3648 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
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