Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Payrange LLC is managing 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that every pending action is being reviewed by a different examiner, even though they are grouped within 2 art units. This suggests a range of innovations that, while related, are distinct enough to be spread across 4 examiners. Practitioners should be prepared to manage 4 separate examiner relationships across 2 different art units.
The busiest examiner is KUCAB, JAMIE R, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending actions, every examiner, including KUCAB, JAMIE R, is currently handling 1 action. This means that the company's prosecution efforts are decentralized among the assigned examiners, with no 1 person overseeing more than 1 active matter. Practitioners will need to manage 4 separate examiner relationships across 2 different art units to advance the company's pending patent applications. This lack of consolidation means that the outcome of 1 case may not necessarily influence the others, requiring a coordinated approach to maintain consistency across the 4 distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 only | 1 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUCAB, JAMIE R | 1 | 67.2% | +36.5% |
| PATEL, NEHA | 1 | 23.2% | +21.0% |
| PATEL, AMIT HEMANTKUMAR | 1 | 54.9% | +6.7% |
| HOLLY, JOHN H | 1 | 53.4% | +31.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18952804 | Method and System for Asynchronous Mobile Payments for Multiple In-Person Transactions Conducted in Parallel | PATEL, AMIT HEMANTKUMAR | 89d overdue |
| 18952778 | Systems And Methods For Determining Electric Pulses To Provide To An Unattended Machine Based On Remotely-Configured Options | HOLLY, JOHN H | 72d overdue |
| 19536062 | PROCESSING INTERRUPTED TRANSACTIONS OVER NON-PERSISTENT NETWORK CONNECTIONS | KUCAB, JAMIE R | — |
| 19310801 | Systems And Methods For Tool Activation And Display Cabinet Locking | PATEL, NEHA | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18952778 | Systems And Methods For Determining Electric Pulses To Provide To An Unattended Machine Based On Remotely-Configured Options | HOLLY, JOHN H | 72d overdue |
| 19536062 | PROCESSING INTERRUPTED TRANSACTIONS OVER NON-PERSISTENT NETWORK CONNECTIONS | KUCAB, JAMIE R | — |
| 19310801 | Systems And Methods For Tool Activation And Display Cabinet Locking | PATEL, NEHA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3699 | 2 |
| 3696 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19536062 | PROCESSING INTERRUPTED TRANSACTIONS OVER NON-PERSISTENT NETWORK CONNECTIONS | KUCAB, JAMIE R | 3699 | §101§102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2026 |
| 19310801 | Systems And Methods For Tool Activation And Display Cabinet Locking | PATEL, NEHA | 3699 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2025 |
| 18952804 | Method and System for Asynchronous Mobile Payments for Multiple In-Person Transactions Conducted in Parallel | PATEL, AMIT HEMANTKUMAR | 3696 | §101 | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18952778 | Systems And Methods For Determining Electric Pulses To Provide To An Unattended Machine Based On Remotely-Configured Options | HOLLY, JOHN H | 3696 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
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