Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 1 of 1 (100%) have an AI response strategy ready
Merkle Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. ALVAREZ, RAQUEL is the busiest examiner, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. The prosecution is currently focused on 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit.
This concentration in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector indicates a narrow technical focus for the current 1 pending office action. Having 1 distinct examiner, ALVAREZ, RAQUEL, allows the applicant to develop a consistent strategy for this specific matter. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the company's current active prosecution. With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the technical scope is likely very specific. The fact that ALVAREZ, RAQUEL holds 1 busiest examiner pending action confirms that there is no examiner diversity in the current workload. This streamlined profile makes it easier for the company to monitor patent office communications.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALVAREZ, RAQUEL | 1 | 49.6% | +7.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18461300 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PEOPLE-BASED AUDIENCE PLANNING | ALVAREZ, RAQUEL | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18461300 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PEOPLE-BASED AUDIENCE PLANNING | ALVAREZ, RAQUEL | 3622 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | AI Ready | Sep 05, 2023 |
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