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
Obigo Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being processed in 1 distinct art unit. This structure indicates a singular focus for the company's current patent prosecution activities.
The busiest examiner, PALMARCHUK, BRIAN KEITH, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This figure represents the total of 1 pending office action for the company, meaning the prosecution outcome is currently dependent on this single examiner's review. For a practitioner, this simplifies the management of the portfolio as there is only one set of examiner preferences to consider within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current technology being patented is concentrated within a specific niche. Successfully resolving the 1 pending office action will be the key milestone for the company's intellectual property growth in the near term. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner with the current workload ensures that the company can provide a highly tailored response to the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PALMARCHUK, BRIAN KEITH | 1 | 67.9% | +16.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18901370 | METHOD FOR SHARING A PATHWAY OF A FIRST VEHICLE WHICH IS DRIVING A HOST LANE WITH A PATHWAY OF A SECOND VEHICLE WHICH IS DRIVING A TARGET LANE THROUGH A V2X COMMUNICATION AND CHANGING A DRIVING LANE OF THE FIRST VEHICLE FROM THE HOST LANE TO THE TARGET LANE AND COMPUTING DEVICE USING THE SAME | PALMARCHUK, BRIAN KEITH | 4d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18901370 | METHOD FOR SHARING A PATHWAY OF A FIRST VEHICLE WHICH IS DRIVING A HOST LANE WITH A PATHWAY OF A SECOND VEHICLE WHICH IS DRIVING A TARGET LANE THROUGH A V2X COMMUNICATION AND CHANGING A DRIVING LANE OF THE FIRST VEHICLE FROM THE HOST LANE TO THE TARGET LANE AND COMPUTING DEVICE USING THE SAME | PALMARCHUK, BRIAN KEITH | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3669 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18901370 | METHOD FOR SHARING A PATHWAY OF A FIRST VEHICLE WHICH IS DRIVING A HOST LANE WITH A PATHWAY OF A SECOND VEHICLE WHICH IS DRIVING A TARGET LANE THROUGH A V2X COMMUNICATION AND CHANGING A DRIVING LANE OF THE FIRST VEHICLE FROM THE HOST LANE TO THE TARGET LANE AND COMPUTING DEVICE USING THE SAME | PALMARCHUK, BRIAN KEITH | 3669 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
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