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
Mercury Financial Holdings LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single active matter is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly focused prosecution footprint at this stage. The alignment of these figures suggests that the company is not currently managing a diverse array of technical claims across different departments of the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is GREGG, MARY M, who is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending action. This total match between the company's overall pending workload and the workload of a single individual suggests that the immediate legal strategy is tied to the specific examination style of this one official. Practitioners should note that the lack of examiner diversity means that the outcome of the entire pending portfolio rests on the feedback and procedural preferences of GREGG, MARY M. This concentration simplifies the administrative burden but increases the impact of a single examiner's discretion on the company's intellectual property goals.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREGG, MARY M | 1 | 14.0% | +14.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17941369 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONBOARDING AND SUPPORTING CREDIT PRODUCT PARTNERS | GREGG, MARY M | 167d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17941369 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONBOARDING AND SUPPORTING CREDIT PRODUCT PARTNERS | GREGG, MARY M | 167d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3695 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17941369 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONBOARDING AND SUPPORTING CREDIT PRODUCT PARTNERS | GREGG, MARY M | 3695 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 167d overdue | Pending | Sep 09, 2022 |
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