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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Paws Forward Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. These are split between 2 distinct examiners and a matching number of distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's current filings are being reviewed by different individuals in separate technical divisions, which may lead to varied prosecution experiences.
ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Each of the pending office actions is managed by a different examiner, ensuring that no single person's review style controls the entire portfolio. For the practitioner, this decentralized structure means that arguments must be tailored to the specific art units involved. The presence of 2 pending office actions across multiple examiners suggests a diversified approach to securing intellectual property in the transportation and mechanical systems fields.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | 1 | 30.3% | +56.9% |
| SCOTT, JACOB S | 1 | 87.4% | +18.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18464950 | AUTOMATIC ANIMAL FEEDING SYSTEM | ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | — |
| 18464946 | AUTOMATIC ANIMAL FEEDING SYSTEM COMPRISING WEIGHT SENSOR AND ANALYTICS SYSTEM | SCOTT, JACOB S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18464950 | AUTOMATIC ANIMAL FEEDING SYSTEM | ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | — |
| 18464946 | AUTOMATIC ANIMAL FEEDING SYSTEM COMPRISING WEIGHT SENSOR AND ANALYTICS SYSTEM | SCOTT, JACOB S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3643 | 1 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18464950 | AUTOMATIC ANIMAL FEEDING SYSTEM | ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | 3643 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
| 18464946 | AUTOMATIC ANIMAL FEEDING SYSTEM COMPRISING WEIGHT SENSOR AND ANALYTICS SYSTEM | SCOTT, JACOB S | 3655 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
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