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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mercari Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The workload is evenly distributed, with 2 distinct examiners each handling a single matter. This structure ensures that the company's active patent applications are being reviewed independently, as no single examiner is responsible for more than 1 of the pending actions. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of each examiner to move these matters toward allowance.
The prosecution is occurring across 2 distinct art units, which matches the number of examiners and pending actions. This suggests that the applications are being evaluated in 2 different specialized environments within the patent office. Practitioners must account for the potential differences in examination styles and art unit specific trends that may arise when dealing with two separate administrative groups simultaneously. The lack of art unit overlap indicates a diverse technical focus for the current pending matters.
GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. Since the total number of pending actions is 2, this busiest examiner is responsible for exactly 1 of the current matters. This even split between the busiest examiner and the other involved examiner indicates a balanced distribution of pending matters across the company's active prosecution pipeline. No individual examiner currently dominates the company's legal landscape at the patent office.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE | 1 | 43.0% | +51.4% |
| SHORTER, RASHIDA R | 1 | 17.9% | +25.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18162982 | MACHINE-LEARNING FILTERS FOR CONTENT MODERATION AND REPORTING | SHORTER, RASHIDA R | 62d |
| 19072682 | INVENTORY INGESTION AND PRICING SYSTEM | GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18162982 | MACHINE-LEARNING FILTERS FOR CONTENT MODERATION AND REPORTING | SHORTER, RASHIDA R | 62d |
| 19072682 | INVENTORY INGESTION AND PRICING SYSTEM | GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3689 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19072682 | INVENTORY INGESTION AND PRICING SYSTEM | GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE | 3689 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 18162982 | MACHINE-LEARNING FILTERS FOR CONTENT MODERATION AND REPORTING | SHORTER, RASHIDA R | 3626 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Feb 01, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMercari Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Anne Marie Georgalas has the most, with 1 of Mercari Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
