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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nrt Technologies Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and a matching number of art units, indicating a lack of concentration in a single specialized group at the USPTO. For a practitioner, this distribution suggests that prosecution strategies may need to be tailored to the specific preferences of different departments rather than relying on a unified approach. The presence of multiple art units shows that the company's technical focus is broad enough to trigger review by various examination teams.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LIDDLE, JAY TRENT, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the pending actions are split between the assigned personnel, the workload is evenly distributed. This parity means that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the pending portfolio. Practitioners should note that LIDDLE, JAY TRENT handles 1 pending office action, which represents a significant portion of the total pending volume. Monitoring the individual allowance rates of these examiners will be crucial for predicting the timeline for the applications.
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 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHWARZENBERG, PAUL | 1 | 61.6% | +27.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18224658 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF ELECTRONICALLY HANDLING A CASINO MARKER AND EXTENSION OF CREDIT | SCHWARZENBERG, PAUL | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18224658 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF ELECTRONICALLY HANDLING A CASINO MARKER AND EXTENSION OF CREDIT | SCHWARZENBERG, PAUL | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3695 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18224658 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF ELECTRONICALLY HANDLING A CASINO MARKER AND EXTENSION OF CREDIT | SCHWARZENBERG, PAUL | 3695 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
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