Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kilpatrick, Townsend & Stockton, LLP has 1 pending office action in the Computing & Software technology area. This action is situated within 1 distinct art unit and is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The examiner, SHAH, VAISHALI, is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. This profile reflects a singular, focused point of prosecution within the specified technology sector. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the company's current workload is concentrated under SHAH, VAISHALI.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner suggests a very specific technical and procedural path for this application. Practitioners should focus on the individual preferences of SHAH, VAISHALI to advance the 1 pending office action. This concentrated prosecution strategy involves only 1 distinct examiner within the Computing & Software technology area. Managing this 1 pending office action requires a deep understanding of the 1 distinct art unit's specific guidelines and the examiner's individual feedback.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAH, VAISHALI | 1 | 57.4% | +53.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19282573 | IDENTIFYING AND GRAPHICALLY REPRESENTING MULTIPLE PARENT NODES OF A CHILD NODE | SHAH, VAISHALI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19282573 | IDENTIFYING AND GRAPHICALLY REPRESENTING MULTIPLE PARENT NODES OF A CHILD NODE | SHAH, VAISHALI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2156 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19282573 | IDENTIFYING AND GRAPHICALLY REPRESENTING MULTIPLE PARENT NODES OF A CHILD NODE | SHAH, VAISHALI | 2156 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
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