Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Orangedot Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These matters are spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a range of technical review for a small number of active cases. This distribution suggests that the company's communications technologies may span different sub-sectors or regulatory categories within the patent office's organizational structure.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is ZHU, RICHARD Z, who is assigned 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 pending office actions in total and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is divided between the assigned staff. The involvement of 2 distinct art units means that the company must adapt its prosecution approach to the specific requirements of 2 different administrative divisions. This lack of concentration under a single examiner or art unit for only 2 pending office actions requires a monitoring of patent office trends across the communications sector.
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 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHU, RICHARD Z | 1 | 69.3% | +15.7% |
| SZUMNY, JONATHON A | 1 | 57.4% | +57.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18206257 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER-AIDED ESCALATION IN A DIGITAL PLATFORM | SZUMNY, JONATHON A | 91d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18206257 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER-AIDED ESCALATION IN A DIGITAL PLATFORM | SZUMNY, JONATHON A | 91d overdue |
| 18793977 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY PRIORITIZING CONTENT PROVIDED TO A USER | ZHU, RICHARD Z | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2654 | 1 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18793977 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY PRIORITIZING CONTENT PROVIDED TO A USER | ZHU, RICHARD Z | 2654 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18206257 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER-AIDED ESCALATION IN A DIGITAL PLATFORM | SZUMNY, JONATHON A | 3686 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 91d overdue | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
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