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
Layer AI is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This prosecution is being conducted by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, showing a very specific technical and personnel focus for the company's current patent activity. The concentration of the portfolio within a single art unit indicates that the company's current patent efforts are directed toward a specialized area of transportation and mechanical systems. This allows the company to tailor its prosecution strategy to the specific examination practices of that art unit.
SUMMERS, KIERSTEN V is the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is currently overseeing the 1 pending office action reported in the data. Since there is only 1 pending action, the company's immediate success in obtaining patent protection depends on the interaction with this specific examiner. This singular focus simplifies the management of the portfolio, as the company only needs to address the concerns and requirements of 1 examiner at this time. The outcome of this action will be a key indicator for the company's intellectual property progress in the transportation and mechanical systems sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUMMERS, KIERSTEN V | 1 | 11.4% | +13.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19210679 | DETERMINATION OF CONTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION OF ASSETS OWNERS TO THE TRAINING AND THE PRODUCTS OF A GENERATIVE AI MODEL | SUMMERS, KIERSTEN V | 23d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19210679 | DETERMINATION OF CONTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION OF ASSETS OWNERS TO THE TRAINING AND THE PRODUCTS OF A GENERATIVE AI MODEL | SUMMERS, KIERSTEN V | 23d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19210679 | DETERMINATION OF CONTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION OF ASSETS OWNERS TO THE TRAINING AND THE PRODUCTS OF A GENERATIVE AI MODEL | SUMMERS, KIERSTEN V | 3626 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
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