Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Liikennevirta OY / Virta Ltd. is currently processing 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that while the company has 4 active matters, each is being handled by a different individual, though they are grouped within 2 specialized units at the patent office.
SIMPSON, DIONE N is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. Since there are 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending office actions, the workload is distributed with each examiner managing 1 case. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations in transportation and e-commerce are being reviewed by 2 technical groups. Practitioners should coordinate their responses to ensure that arguments made in 1 art unit do not conflict with those made in the other, even as they deal with 4 separate examiners across the 4 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIMPSON, DIONE N | 1 | 32.6% | +32.4% |
| FANTU, YALKEW | 1 | 80.2% | +15.9% |
| GOMEZ, CHRISTOPHER ALBERT | 1 | 26.4% | +30.9% |
| DJANAL-MANN, DOMINIQUE JOHANN | 1 | — | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19115061 | AUTOMATIC COMMISSIONING OF CHARGING STATIONS | SIMPSON, DIONE N | 17d overdue |
| 18144721 | LOAD MANAGEMENT OF AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATION | DJANAL-MANN, DOMINIQUE JOHANN | 35d |
| 18559770 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING POINT MANAGEMENT EXTENDER | FANTU, YALKEW | — |
| 18289029 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING MANAGEMENT AND CLIENT DEVICE | GOMEZ, CHRISTOPHER ALBERT | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19115061 | AUTOMATIC COMMISSIONING OF CHARGING STATIONS | SIMPSON, DIONE N | 17d overdue |
| 18559770 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING POINT MANAGEMENT EXTENDER | FANTU, YALKEW | — |
| 18289029 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING MANAGEMENT AND CLIENT DEVICE | GOMEZ, CHRISTOPHER ALBERT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 2 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19115061 | AUTOMATIC COMMISSIONING OF CHARGING STATIONS | SIMPSON, DIONE N | 3628 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 18559770 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING POINT MANAGEMENT EXTENDER | FANTU, YALKEW | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18289029 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING MANAGEMENT AND CLIENT DEVICE | GOMEZ, CHRISTOPHER ALBERT | 3628 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 18144721 | LOAD MANAGEMENT OF AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATION | DJANAL-MANN, DOMINIQUE JOHANN | 2859 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
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