Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nowcasting.ai, Inc. is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 3 actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, which introduces variety into the company's prosecution efforts. The activity is concentrated within 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the technology falls into two primary technical classifications within the transportation and mechanical systems sector.
SUBRAMANIAN, NARAYANSWAMY is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because each of the 3 pending actions is assigned to a different examiner, the workload is spread across the 3 distinct examiners, with each handling 1 pending action. This distribution requires the company to adapt to different examination styles while maintaining consistency within the 2 active art units.
The presence of 3 pending office actions across 2 art units indicates an active but focused prosecution strategy. Practitioners must coordinate their responses to ensure that the arguments made to the 3 distinct examiners do not conflict, especially when those examiners are working within the same art unit. This portfolio structure suggests a technical focus with multiple applications moving through the USPTO simultaneously.
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 | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUBRAMANIAN, NARAYANSWAMY | 1 | 28.4% | +30.3% |
| KWONG, CHO YIU | 1 | 32.3% | +4.3% |
| APPLE, KIRSTEN SACHWITZ | 1 | 60.4% | +4.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18653791 | INTEGRATED INVESTMENT STRATEGY GENERATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH ENHANCED FUNCTIONALITIES | SUBRAMANIAN, NARAYANSWAMY | 118d overdue |
| 18614384 | INTEGRATED INVESTMENT STRATEGY GENERATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | APPLE, KIRSTEN SACHWITZ | 93d overdue |
| 18653766 | PERSONALIZED FINANCIAL NEWSLETTER GENERATION SYSTEM BASED ON USER DEMOGRAPHIC, INTERESTS, AND PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION | KWONG, CHO YIU | 55d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18653791 | INTEGRATED INVESTMENT STRATEGY GENERATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH ENHANCED FUNCTIONALITIES | SUBRAMANIAN, NARAYANSWAMY | 118d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3693 | 2 |
| 3691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18653791 | INTEGRATED INVESTMENT STRATEGY GENERATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH ENHANCED FUNCTIONALITIES | SUBRAMANIAN, NARAYANSWAMY | 3691 | §101 | Final Rejection | 118d overdue | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18653766 | PERSONALIZED FINANCIAL NEWSLETTER GENERATION SYSTEM BASED ON USER DEMOGRAPHIC, INTERESTS, AND PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION | KWONG, CHO YIU | 3693 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18614384 | INTEGRATED INVESTMENT STRATEGY GENERATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | APPLE, KIRSTEN SACHWITZ | 3693 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 93d overdue | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
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