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
Joint Technology Solutions Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling the 1 pending office action. The prosecution activity is concentrated as this matter represents the entirety of the current workload for the company.
With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's current engagement with the patent office is limited to a point of contact. The Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems filing does not require the management of multiple examiner timelines or conflicting art unit requirements. The focus on ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K as the examiner means that the outcome of the current prosecution depends on the interactions within that specific technical group.
This streamlined profile reflects a specific focus for the company's current patenting efforts. Practitioners can dedicate resources to the specific preferences of the 1 distinct examiner without coordinating across different divisions. The 1 pending office action allows for a focused strategy within the 1 distinct art unit assigned to the case.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K | 1 | 32.4% | +40.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19320613 | AUTOMATED ALERT SYSTEM | ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19320613 | AUTOMATED ALERT SYSTEM | ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19320613 | AUTOMATED ALERT SYSTEM | ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K | 3682 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
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