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
Pollen Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution is currently focused on 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific and narrow area of active patenting. The focus on a single art unit suggests that the company's current innovations are being evaluated against a consistent set of technical standards and prior art within the transportation sector.
The busiest examiner, NGUYEN, LIZ P, is handling the pending office action. As this is the company's only active case, the examiner's interpretation of the art unit's guidelines is the central factor in the prosecution. Practitioners should focus on meeting the specific expectations of this single official. This concentrated approach allows for a deep focus on the examiner's individual preferences without the need to coordinate across multiple departments or art units, simplifying the management of the 1 pending office action.
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 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, LIZ P | 1 | 61.1% | +6.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763956 | DYNAMIC DISCOUNTING SYSTEM AND METHOD | NGUYEN, LIZ P | 1d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3696 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18763956 | DYNAMIC DISCOUNTING SYSTEM AND METHOD | NGUYEN, LIZ P | 3696 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
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