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
Kessler Foundation Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SITTNER, MICHAEL J. The matter is located within 1 distinct art unit, showing a highly concentrated prosecution focus for the company's current activity. This arrangement means that all current office interactions are centered on one individual and one technical group.
SITTNER, MICHAEL J is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 action accounts for the total of 1 pending office action currently active. Practitioners can expect a direct communication path, as the prosecution is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration simplifies the administrative burden, as there are no other examiners or art units to coordinate with for the current filings.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SITTNER, MICHAEL J | 1 | 10.9% | +14.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19174526 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS FOR CHARACTER STRENGTH-BASED EMPLOYMENT INTERVIEW TRAINING | SITTNER, MICHAEL J | 9d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19174526 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS FOR CHARACTER STRENGTH-BASED EMPLOYMENT INTERVIEW TRAINING | SITTNER, MICHAEL J | 9d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3621 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19174526 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS FOR CHARACTER STRENGTH-BASED EMPLOYMENT INTERVIEW TRAINING | SITTNER, MICHAEL J | 3621 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
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