Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nearmap Australia Pty Ltd. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. All 3 actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This variety in personnel occurs despite the fact that all actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. Such a structure suggests that while the technical subject matter is consistent, the company must navigate the unique perspectives of different examiners within that single group.
The focus on 1 distinct art unit suggests a narrow technical scope for the current pending applications, even as they are reviewed by different staff. CUTLER, ALBERT H is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with a pending office action. This indicates that no single examiner holds multiple active cases, requiring separate engagement strategies for each filing. With the pending office actions in total, the company is managing a small but diverse set of examiner interactions that all fall under the same technical classification, allowing for some potential overlap in the prior art cited across the applications.
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%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CUTLER, ALBERT H | 1 | 79.4% | +21.1% |
| KOROMA, SORIE IBRAHIM | 1 | — | — |
| MALHOTRA, SANJEEV | 1 | 65.7% | +30.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18895944 | FIRE RISK DETERMINATION | KOROMA, SORIE IBRAHIM | — |
| 18797590 | ASSESSMENT TOOL, GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE, AND ASSOCIATED FUNCTIONALITY | MALHOTRA, SANJEEV | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19264908 | HYPER CAMERA WITH SHARED MIRROR | CUTLER, ALBERT H | — |
| 18797590 | ASSESSMENT TOOL, GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE, AND ASSOCIATED FUNCTIONALITY | MALHOTRA, SANJEEV | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19264908 | HYPER CAMERA WITH SHARED MIRROR | CUTLER, ALBERT H | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2025 |
| 18895944 | FIRE RISK DETERMINATION | KOROMA, SORIE IBRAHIM | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18797590 | ASSESSMENT TOOL, GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE, AND ASSOCIATED FUNCTIONALITY | MALHOTRA, SANJEEV | 3691 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
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