Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Modality Solutions LLC currently has 1 pending office action in its patent portfolio. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ZIMMERMAN, JEFFREY P, who is also listed as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The portfolio shows 0 distinct art units, indicating a specific administrative status for the pending work. Practitioners should note that the entire active prosecution effort is concentrated under an individual examiner, requiring a focused strategy for this 1 pending office action.
The absence of multiple pending actions or examiners suggests that the company's current patent strategy is highly targeted. With the 1 pending office action to manage, the administrative burden is low, allowing for a thorough and detailed response to the examiner's concerns. The 0 distinct art units recorded in the data may reflect a unique classification that requires careful monitoring by the legal team.
For the practitioner, the primary objective is to satisfy the requirements of ZIMMERMAN, JEFFREY P. Because there are no other active matters to consider, the applicant can dedicate resources to this 1 busiest examiner pending action. Success in this matter will be the determinant of the portfolio's current progress, making the relationship with the 1 distinct examiner a critical factor in the prosecution process.
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 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZIMMERMAN, JEFFREY P | 1 | 13.4% | +15.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18449852 | PRODUCT QUALITY DURING SHIPPING BY GENERATING LANE TEMPERATURE AND PRODUCT TEMPERATURE FROM MODELS | ZIMMERMAN, JEFFREY P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18449852 | PRODUCT QUALITY DURING SHIPPING BY GENERATING LANE TEMPERATURE AND PRODUCT TEMPERATURE FROM MODELS | ZIMMERMAN, JEFFREY P | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18449852 | PRODUCT QUALITY DURING SHIPPING BY GENERATING LANE TEMPERATURE AND PRODUCT TEMPERATURE FROM MODELS | ZIMMERMAN, JEFFREY P | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2023 |
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