Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Merlin Labs Inc. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a consistent technical focus for the company's current filings. Despite the single art unit, the workload is distributed between 2 distinct examiners, requiring the company to navigate different individual examination styles within the same administrative group. This structure implies that while the technical classification is stable, the human element of prosecution remains varied across the 3 pending office actions.
SHARMA, NEERAJ is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 2 pending office actions. This concentration means that a significant portion of the 3 pending office actions is under the review of a single individual. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific tendencies of this examiner, as their decisions will impact the overall success of the company's current prosecution efforts within the 1 distinct art unit. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners for the current workload creates a scenario where the busiest examiner handles 2 pending office actions, centralizing much of the decision-making process.
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 | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHARMA, NEERAJ | 2 | 84.7% | +12.1% |
| AMIN, BHAVESH V | 1 | 79.5% | +15.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18969752 | SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD FOR SEMANTIC PARSING OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL AUDIO | SHARMA, NEERAJ | — |
| 18952583 | SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD FOR SEMANTIC PARSING OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL AUDIO | SHARMA, NEERAJ | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18416727 | ADVANCED FLIGHT PROCESSING SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD | AMIN, BHAVESH V | 62d |
| 18969752 | SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD FOR SEMANTIC PARSING OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL AUDIO | SHARMA, NEERAJ | — |
| 18952583 | SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD FOR SEMANTIC PARSING OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL AUDIO | SHARMA, NEERAJ | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18969752 | SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD FOR SEMANTIC PARSING OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL AUDIO | SHARMA, NEERAJ | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18952583 | SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD FOR SEMANTIC PARSING OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL AUDIO | SHARMA, NEERAJ | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18416727 | ADVANCED FLIGHT PROCESSING SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD | AMIN, BHAVESH V | 3657 | §103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
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