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
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused technical area for the current filing. This 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the firm's active engagement with the patent office for this portfolio.
The busiest examiner, DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This matches the total of 1 pending office action for the portfolio. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution process is highly centralized. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific requirements of this single examiner. The outcome of this transportation and mechanical systems application rests entirely with DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H. This alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit ensures that the prosecution remains focused and manageable. Practitioners should carefully study the previous rulings of this examiner to optimize their response strategy. This streamlined approach allows for a very targeted and efficient pursuit of patent rights.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H | 1 | 24.0% | +25.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19025670 | ORGANIZATION SOURCING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H | 62d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19025670 | ORGANIZATION SOURCING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H | 62d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19025670 | ORGANIZATION SOURCING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H | 3624 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
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