Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Modernizing Medicine Inc. maintains a patent portfolio within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company is currently managing 3 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's innovations span several different technical classifications. Handling these pending office actions in this manner requires the company to address a variety of examiner concerns and prior art landscapes.
The prosecution of these applications involves 3 distinct examiners. HEIN, DEVIN C is the busiest examiner for the company, with a busiest examiner pending count of 1. This busiest examiner pending count of 1 indicates that the workload is distributed, with each examiner handling an application. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner's habits will define the company's overall success in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
The presence of multiple examiners and art units for the pending office actions reflects a decentralized prosecution environment. There is no concentration of workload with any single official, as the busiest examiner pending count is limited. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate different sets of procedural requirements. The strategy for Modernizing Medicine Inc. involves coordinating responses across the distinct art units to resolve the 3 pending office actions currently on the docket.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEIN, DEVIN C | 1 | 46.1% | +29.5% |
| NAJARIAN, LENA | 1 | 38.9% | +39.2% |
| WINSTON III, EDWARD B | 1 | 19.8% | +31.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17730900 | Automated Healthcare Provider Quality Reporting System (PQRS) | HEIN, DEVIN C | 99d overdue |
| 16825087 | Systems and Methods of Generating Patient Notes with Inherited Preferences | WINSTON III, EDWARD B | 60d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17730900 | Automated Healthcare Provider Quality Reporting System (PQRS) | HEIN, DEVIN C | 99d overdue |
| 16825087 | Systems and Methods of Generating Patient Notes with Inherited Preferences | WINSTON III, EDWARD B | 60d overdue |
| 16849141 | Apparatus and Method for Assessment of Patient Condition | NAJARIAN, LENA | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3686 | 1 |
| 3687 | 1 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17730900 | Automated Healthcare Provider Quality Reporting System (PQRS) | HEIN, DEVIN C | 3686 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 99d overdue | Pending | Apr 27, 2022 |
| 16849141 | Apparatus and Method for Assessment of Patient Condition | NAJARIAN, LENA | 3687 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Apr 15, 2020 |
| 16825087 | Systems and Methods of Generating Patient Notes with Inherited Preferences | WINSTON III, EDWARD B | 3683 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Mar 20, 2020 |
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