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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nb Ventures Inc. Dba Gep maintains 3 pending office actions across the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, indicating a lack of examiner overlap in the current workload. Furthermore, the portfolio spans 3 distinct art units, which requires the company to navigate diverse examination standards across different mechanical and e-commerce sectors. This distribution suggests that the company's prosecution outcomes are subject to the varied perspectives of multiple examiners rather than a centralized review process.
SALMAN, AVIA ABDULSATTAR is identified as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since each of the 3 pending actions is handled by a different individual, no single examiner manages more than 1 pending action. The presence of 3 distinct art units for only 3 pending actions highlights a broad technical footprint for a portfolio of this size. Practitioners must prepare for distinct procedural styles across these 3 different units to effectively manage the company's intellectual property interests.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SALMAN, AVIA ABDULSATTAR | 1 | 48.8% | +42.1% |
| NGUYEN, TAN D | 1 | 24.3% | +19.7% |
| ELKASSABGI, ZAHRA | 1 | 29.2% | +41.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18472306 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CATEGORY MANAGEMENT | NGUYEN, TAN D | 7d |
| 18400317 | LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL (LLM) BASED DATA PROCESSING IN PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY CHAIN APPLICATIONS DEVELOPED BY CODELESS PLATFORM | SALMAN, AVIA ABDULSATTAR | — |
| 18148605 | QUERY LANGUAGE TOOL BASED SELF DRIVEN SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING ENTERPRISE AND SUPPLY CHAIN APPLICATIONS | ELKASSABGI, ZAHRA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18472306 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CATEGORY MANAGEMENT | NGUYEN, TAN D | 7d |
| 18400317 | LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL (LLM) BASED DATA PROCESSING IN PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY CHAIN APPLICATIONS DEVELOPED BY CODELESS PLATFORM | SALMAN, AVIA ABDULSATTAR | — |
| 18148605 | QUERY LANGUAGE TOOL BASED SELF DRIVEN SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING ENTERPRISE AND SUPPLY CHAIN APPLICATIONS | ELKASSABGI, ZAHRA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3627 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18400317 | LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL (LLM) BASED DATA PROCESSING IN PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY CHAIN APPLICATIONS DEVELOPED BY CODELESS PLATFORM | SALMAN, AVIA ABDULSATTAR | 3627 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18472306 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CATEGORY MANAGEMENT | NGUYEN, TAN D | 3629 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18148605 | QUERY LANGUAGE TOOL BASED SELF DRIVEN SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING ENTERPRISE AND SUPPLY CHAIN APPLICATIONS | ELKASSABGI, ZAHRA | 3623 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2022 |
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