Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Payscale

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

Analysis

Payscale currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner, SALMAN, AVIA ABDULSATTAR. The action is located within a distinct art unit. SALMAN, AVIA ABDULSATTAR is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This data reflects a very focused and limited current prosecution profile for the company.

The concentration of the entire active portfolio under a single examiner and art unit simplifies the prosecution strategy. Practitioners can focus exclusively on the specific requirements and historical tendencies of the assigned examiner. Because there is only a single art unit involved, the company's current interactions with the patent office are highly centralized. This focus within the transportation and e-commerce sector suggests a targeted approach to their intellectual property development. The involvement of a single examiner ensures a consistent set of feedback applies to the company's current work.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SALMAN, AVIA ABDULSATTAR 1 48.8% +42.1%

Hard Cases (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18904977 System and Method for Automated Acquisition and Integration of Survey Data SALMAN, AVIA ABDULSATTAR 35d overdue

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18904977 System and Method for Automated Acquisition and Integration of Survey Data SALMAN, AVIA ABDULSATTAR 35d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3627 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18904977 System and Method for Automated Acquisition and Integration of Survey Data SALMAN, AVIA ABDULSATTAR 3627 §101§103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Oct 02, 2024

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