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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Openmethods has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, showing a concentrated prosecution focus. The company's current activity is entirely contained within this specific technical and administrative channel at the patent office.
The busiest examiner, ELKASSABGI, ZAHRA, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total pending office actions for the company is 1, this examiner handles all current prosecution matters. The involvement of a distinct art unit indicates that the company's mechanical and e-commerce innovations are being reviewed by a specific group of experts. This allows for a targeted approach to addressing the examiner's requirements and navigating the procedural environment of the art unit involved. Practitioners should focus on the specific feedback provided by this examiner to ensure a successful outcome.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELKASSABGI, ZAHRA | 1 | 29.2% | +41.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19091804 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENFORCING BROWSER-BASED APPLICATION WORKFLOW COMPLIANCE | ELKASSABGI, ZAHRA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19091804 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENFORCING BROWSER-BASED APPLICATION WORKFLOW COMPLIANCE | ELKASSABGI, ZAHRA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19091804 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENFORCING BROWSER-BASED APPLICATION WORKFLOW COMPLIANCE | ELKASSABGI, ZAHRA | 3623 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
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