Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Outform Ltd. is managing 2 pending office actions in the technology area of Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. These 2 actions are assigned to distinct examiners, but both are located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while different people are reviewing the applications, they are all within the same administrative group. The concentration in 1 art unit suggests a very specific technical focus for the company's current mechanical systems filings.
YUSHIN, NIKOLAY K is the busiest examiner for the company, handling 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending actions and multiple examiners, the workload is split equally between the personnel. The fact that both examiners are within a single art unit means that the company's active matters are subject to the same supervisory policies. This provides a degree of administrative consistency despite the involvement of distinct examiners.
The 2 pending actions are distributed across examiners, and the busiest examiner, YUSHIN, NIKOLAY K, is responsible for 1 of these actions. The use of 1 art unit centralizes the technical oversight of the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems portfolio. This structure requires managing different examiner relationships within a single administrative environment.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YUSHIN, NIKOLAY K | 1 | 93.3% | +2.1% |
| GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE | 1 | 43.0% | +51.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18226366 | INTERACTIVE RETAIL CUSTOMER INTERFACE | GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE | 107d overdue |
| 18778739 | MODULAR SENSOR FLOORING SYSTEM | YUSHIN, NIKOLAY K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18226366 | INTERACTIVE RETAIL CUSTOMER INTERFACE | GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE | 107d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18778739 | MODULAR SENSOR FLOORING SYSTEM | YUSHIN, NIKOLAY K | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18226366 | INTERACTIVE RETAIL CUSTOMER INTERFACE | GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE | 3689 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 107d overdue | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
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