Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
People Center Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The busiest examiner is TO, BAOTRAN N, who has 1 pending office action. This means each of the 3 pending office actions is assigned to a different individual among the 3 distinct examiners.
The 2 distinct art units suggest that the transportation and e-commerce filings are being evaluated by different specialized groups. Having 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units indicates that at least one technical division has multiple examiners working on the company's files. This distribution requires the company to maintain consistent arguments across the 3 pending office actions while addressing the specific concerns of 2 distinct art units.
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 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TO, BAOTRAN N | 1 | 86.1% | +12.3% |
| WERONSKI, MATTHEW S | 1 | 9.6% | +20.0% |
| RINES, ROBERT D | 1 | 38.5% | +47.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19041845 | Generating and Implementing Organizational Security Policies | TO, BAOTRAN N | — |
| 18744214 | Run-Time Generation of Reports from Multi-Tenant Database | WERONSKI, MATTHEW 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17977769 | Techniques for Providing Alerts in a Time and Attendance System | RINES, ROBERT D | 44d overdue |
| 19041845 | Generating and Implementing Organizational Security Policies | TO, BAOTRAN N | — |
| 18744214 | Run-Time Generation of Reports from Multi-Tenant Database | WERONSKI, MATTHEW S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3627 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19041845 | Generating and Implementing Organizational Security Policies | TO, BAOTRAN N | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 18744214 | Run-Time Generation of Reports from Multi-Tenant Database | WERONSKI, MATTHEW S | 3627 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 17977769 | Techniques for Providing Alerts in a Time and Attendance System | RINES, ROBERT D | 3625 | §112DP | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Oct 31, 2022 |
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