Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Niche.com, Inc. maintains a portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action for the company. This single matter represents the current focus of the company's patent prosecution efforts.
The prosecution is streamlined through 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the technical content of the filings falls under the jurisdiction of a single e-commerce or mechanical systems group. This allows for a consistent examination experience without the variability of multiple art units.
NOVAK, REBECCA R is the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This individual is responsible for the only active office action in the portfolio. The company's progress in its technical sector is currently tied to the specific review conducted by this examiner.
The presence of 1 distinct examiner across 1 pending office action ensures that the prosecution strategy remains focused on a single point of contact. This lack of diversity in art units suggests a specific technical focus. Such a structure may reduce the administrative burden of managing multiple examiner relationships.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOVAK, REBECCA R | 1 | 5.9% | +6.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18114646 | RENDERING OF ELECTRONIC VISUAL INDICATORS BASED ON PARSING OF STRUCTURED DATA RECORDS | NOVAK, REBECCA R | 77d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3629 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18114646 | RENDERING OF ELECTRONIC VISUAL INDICATORS BASED ON PARSING OF STRUCTURED DATA RECORDS | NOVAK, REBECCA R | 3629 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 77d overdue | Pending | Feb 27, 2023 |
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