Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Minware Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This activity involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, which represents a focused prosecution profile. BOLEN, NICHOLAS D is the busiest examiner for this company, as he is currently handling the 1 pending office action.
With 1 pending office action, the company's immediate patent goals are concentrated on the 1 distinct examiner assigned to the application. The placement within 1 distinct art unit indicates a specific technical niche within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. Because BOLEN, NICHOLAS D is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, his specific examination style is the primary factor for the practitioner to analyze.
This focused data set allows for a specialized prosecution strategy that addresses the specific concerns of the examiner and art unit. Practitioners should evaluate the past record of the 1 distinct examiner to anticipate potential hurdles in the current office action. The singular focus of the portfolio means that every strategic decision made during this prosecution will have a direct impact on the company's intellectual property standing.
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 + other | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SLACHTA, DOUGLAS M | 1 | 82.6% | +18.1% |
| BOLEN, NICHOLAS D | 1 | 9.4% | +10.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18415924 | Method, System and Computer Program Product for Producing High-Level Report Data from Low-Level Data Extracted from a Version Control System | SLACHTA, DOUGLAS M | 7d |
| 18192953 | Method, System and Computer Program Product for Assessing Labor Efficiency of Knowledge Work such as Software Development Work | BOLEN, NICHOLAS D | 71d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18415924 | Method, System and Computer Program Product for Producing High-Level Report Data from Low-Level Data Extracted from a Version Control System | SLACHTA, DOUGLAS M | 7d |
| 18192953 | Method, System and Computer Program Product for Assessing Labor Efficiency of Knowledge Work such as Software Development Work | BOLEN, NICHOLAS D | 71d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2193 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18415924 | Method, System and Computer Program Product for Producing High-Level Report Data from Low-Level Data Extracted from a Version Control System | SLACHTA, DOUGLAS M | 2193 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18192953 | Method, System and Computer Program Product for Assessing Labor Efficiency of Knowledge Work such as Software Development Work | BOLEN, NICHOLAS D | 3624 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
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