Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Kristopher Andrew Tate

Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Kristopher Andrew Tate manages 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This one-to-one ratio between 3 pending office actions, 3 distinct examiners, and 3 distinct art units indicates that each matter is being handled in a completely different technical group by a different individual. There is no overlap in the current prosecution of these 3 pending office actions.

IMMANUEL, ILSE I is one of the examiners involved, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is one of the 3 pending office actions in the portfolio. The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests that the filings are technically diverse within the mechanical and transportation fields. For practitioners, this means that each of the 3 pending office actions requires a completely independent strategy tailored to the specific 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner involved. The 3 pending office actions represent a decentralized prosecution effort where each application must be advanced on its own merits within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. Practitioners should focus on the specific standards of each of the 3 distinct art units to be successful.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
0
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

3
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
IMMANUEL, ILSE I 1 27.2% +27.5%
GOYEA, OLUSEGUN 1 64.9% +33.3%
FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. 1 25.4% +24.4%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17910743 CONTROLLER, PRODUCT TRADING SYSTEM, AND AUTOMATED ORDERING PROGRAM GOYEA, OLUSEGUN 98d overdue
19139791 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ATTAINING ELECTRONIC CURRENCY BASE IMMANUEL, ILSE I 25d overdue
17638598 COMMODITY EXCHANGE SYSTEM, COMMODITY EXCHANGE METHOD, AND COMMODITY EXCHANGE PROGRAM FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. 23d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17910743 CONTROLLER, PRODUCT TRADING SYSTEM, AND AUTOMATED ORDERING PROGRAM GOYEA, OLUSEGUN 98d overdue
19139791 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ATTAINING ELECTRONIC CURRENCY BASE IMMANUEL, ILSE I 25d overdue
17638598 COMMODITY EXCHANGE SYSTEM, COMMODITY EXCHANGE METHOD, AND COMMODITY EXCHANGE PROGRAM FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. 23d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3699 1
3627 1
3689 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19139791 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ATTAINING ELECTRONIC CURRENCY BASE IMMANUEL, ILSE I 3699 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 25d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2025
17910743 CONTROLLER, PRODUCT TRADING SYSTEM, AND AUTOMATED ORDERING PROGRAM GOYEA, OLUSEGUN 3627 §101§103 Final Rejection 98d overdue Pending Feb 27, 2023
17638598 COMMODITY EXCHANGE SYSTEM, COMMODITY EXCHANGE METHOD, AND COMMODITY EXCHANGE PROGRAM FRUNZI, VICTORIA E. 3689 §101§103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Feb 25, 2022

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