Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Maze Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is being handled by a different individual. This distribution suggests a lack of examiner-level concentration in the current workload, ensuring that the prosecution of each application is independent.
The portfolio is also spread across a matching count of 2 distinct art units. This variety indicates that the company's filings in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems are touching upon different technical classifications within the USPTO. For a portfolio with this many pending office actions, having a distinct art unit for each means every action is being processed in a unique administrative environment. This structure requires the company to adapt to various internal policies across the art units.
BOSWELL, BETH V is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 2, this examiner handles a portion of the current workload. The remaining portion is managed by the other of the distinct examiners. This distribution requires the company to manage various examiner relationships across the distinct art units in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. Practitioners must track 1 busiest examiner pending action while addressing the other matter separately.
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 only | 1 (50%) |
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOSWELL, BETH V | 1 | 9.9% | -2.2% |
| MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | 1 | 46.9% | +24.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18842832 | CAFE MONITORING DEVICE AND CAFE MONITORING METHOD | MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | 23d |
| 18845038 | CAFE CURATION DEVICE AND CAFE CURATION METHOD | BOSWELL, BETH V | 63d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18842832 | CAFE MONITORING DEVICE AND CAFE MONITORING METHOD | MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | 23d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3625 | 1 |
| 3682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18845038 | CAFE CURATION DEVICE AND CAFE CURATION METHOD | BOSWELL, BETH V | 3625 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18842832 | CAFE MONITORING DEVICE AND CAFE MONITORING METHOD | MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | 3682 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
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