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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mitchell Repair Information Company LLC has 2 pending office actions within its company patent portfolio, specifically in the Computing & Software technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. Furthermore, these examiners are located in 2 distinct art units, showing a lack of administrative overlap for the current pending matters.
FABER, DAVID is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action under his review. Since the total number of pending actions is 2 and there are 2 distinct examiners, the workload is divided. No single examiner or art unit dominates the current prosecution landscape for this portfolio.
The 1 pending action with Faber represents one of the 2 active office actions in the Computing & Software sector for this company. Because there are 2 distinct art units involved, practitioners must adapt to two different sets of unit-specific guidelines. This distribution requires a versatile approach to the 2 pending office actions currently in progress.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FABER, DAVID | 1 | 50.9% | +37.1% |
| PRASAD, NANCY N | 1 | 21.3% | +18.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18590469 | Method and system for displaying multiple routing diagrams | FABER, DAVID | 35d overdue |
| 17503772 | System and Method for Vehicle Service Scheduler | PRASAD, NANCY N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18590469 | Method and system for displaying multiple routing diagrams | FABER, DAVID | 35d overdue |
| 17503772 | System and Method for Vehicle Service Scheduler | PRASAD, NANCY N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2172 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18590469 | Method and system for displaying multiple routing diagrams | FABER, DAVID | 2172 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 17503772 | System and Method for Vehicle Service Scheduler | PRASAD, NANCY N | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2021 |
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