Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Lisnr Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, meaning each case is under the review of a different individual. Both actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, which provides administrative consistency for the portfolio. FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS is identified as the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action under their supervision.
For practitioners, the concentration of pending office actions in 1 distinct art unit is a factor in planning prosecution strategy. Although there are multiple distinct examiners, the shared art unit suggests that the technical standards applied to the cases may be similar. The pending office actions represent an effort by Lisnr Inc. to secure patent rights in this specific technology sector. Having 1 pending action with FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS indicates an even distribution of work across the involved examiners. The legal team can focus their efforts on the requirements of 1 distinct art unit while managing the preferences of the examiners. FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS is one of the points of contact for these matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | 1 | 71.6% | +30.7% |
| ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D | 1 | 55.1% | +3.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19091106 | MAGNITUDE EQUALIZATION OF AUDIO-BASED DATA TRANSMISSIONS | FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19091106 | MAGNITUDE EQUALIZATION OF AUDIO-BASED DATA TRANSMISSIONS | FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 18239440 | AUDIO TRANSMISSIONS WITH INTERLEAVED DATA PAYLOADS | ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D | 3645 | §112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Aug 29, 2023 |
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