Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kayak Software Corporation has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 1 distinct art unit, showing a centralized technical focus at the patent office. The portfolio involves 2 distinct examiners, meaning each pending office action is being reviewed by a different individual. AHSAN, SYED M is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
The use of 2 distinct examiners within a single art unit for the 2 pending office actions suggests that while the technical field is narrow, the company is engaging with multiple perspectives within that unit. This can be beneficial for testing different claim strategies. Since AHSAN, SYED M and the other examiner are both operating within the same 1 distinct art unit, the company may encounter consistent prior art citations even while dealing with different examiner preferences.
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 only | 1 (50%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHSAN, SYED M | 1 | 73.1% | +22.3% |
| FLYNN, ABBY J | 1 | 33.0% | +55.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18581603 | ITINERARY SEARCH BASED ON IMAGE DATA | FLYNN, ABBY J | 30d overdue |
| 19084196 | AUTOMATED BOT BLOCKING | AHSAN, SYED M | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18581603 | ITINERARY SEARCH BASED ON IMAGE DATA | FLYNN, ABBY J | 30d overdue |
| 19084196 | AUTOMATED BOT BLOCKING | AHSAN, SYED M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19084196 | AUTOMATED BOT BLOCKING | AHSAN, SYED M | — | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 18581603 | ITINERARY SEARCH BASED ON IMAGE DATA | FLYNN, ABBY J | 3663 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
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