Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pillnurse Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, KUMAR, RAKESH, who is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct art unit. With only 1 pending office action, the company's current patent office interaction is entirely focused on this single matter.
The involvement of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a highly specific and narrow scope for the current pending portfolio. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of KUMAR, RAKESH, as this individual is the sole reviewer for the company's current pending workload. The concentration of the 1 pending office action within 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company is targeting a very specific technical niche within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field, with no other pending matters currently active.
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) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUMAR, RAKESH | 1 | 57.2% | +28.2% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18812703 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A DISPENSING SYSTEM | KUMAR, RAKESH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18812703 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A DISPENSING SYSTEM | KUMAR, RAKESH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18812703 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A DISPENSING SYSTEM | KUMAR, RAKESH | 3651 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialPillnurse Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Rakesh Kumar has the most, with 1 of Pillnurse Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.