Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Oii Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are split across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's active filings are categorized under different technical classifications. The involvement of distinct examiners suggests that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different official at the USPTO. This distribution across multiple art units and examiners means that the company's current prosecution strategy involves navigating separate examination environments simultaneously.
KURTIS GILLS is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This represents a portion of the 2 total pending office actions, with the other action assigned to a different examiner. Because there are multiple examiners, the company must manage different sets of examiner preferences and timelines. The presence of pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area highlights a diversified but small active portfolio requiring careful coordination.
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 (50%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILLS, KURTIS | 1 | 57.9% | +29.2% |
| LEMIEUX, JESSICA | 1 | 65.2% | +23.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18949964 | ORCHESTRATED INTELLIGENT SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMIZER | GILLS, KURTIS | 8d overdue |
| 18513426 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HYPOTHETICAL TESTING OF SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMIZATION | LEMIEUX, JESSICA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18949964 | ORCHESTRATED INTELLIGENT SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMIZER | GILLS, KURTIS | 8d overdue |
| 18513426 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HYPOTHETICAL TESTING OF SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMIZATION | LEMIEUX, JESSICA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18949964 | ORCHESTRATED INTELLIGENT SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMIZER | GILLS, KURTIS | 3624 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18513426 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HYPOTHETICAL TESTING OF SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMIZATION | LEMIEUX, JESSICA | 3626 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
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