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
Opticsurg Inc. is currently prosecuting patent applications in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company has 1 pending office action. This action is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit, showing a very concentrated area of focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner, AKOGYERAM II, NICHOLAS A. As the busiest examiner, AKOGYERAM II, NICHOLAS A is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active. This means the company's entire pending portfolio is subject to the review of 1 distinct examiner within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
For practitioners, the presence of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit simplifies the strategy, as there are no conflicting examiner styles to manage. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the current workload. Success for Opticsurg Inc. relies on meeting the specific examination criteria of AKOGYERAM II, NICHOLAS A to move the application toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKOGYERAM II, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 26.7% | +29.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18948189 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING HEALTHCARE DELIVERY | AKOGYERAM II, NICHOLAS A | 6d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18948189 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING HEALTHCARE DELIVERY | AKOGYERAM II, NICHOLAS A | 6d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18948189 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING HEALTHCARE DELIVERY | AKOGYERAM II, NICHOLAS A | 3686 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
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