Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Pricewaterhousecoopers LLP manages a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently has 3 pending office actions. These 3 actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners.
The distribution extends to the departmental level, with 3 distinct art units involved. This indicates that each of the 3 pending office actions is being prosecuted in a unique art unit. The busiest examiner, MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
With 3 pending office actions, 3 distinct examiners, and 3 distinct art units, the portfolio is fully dispersed across its active cases. This variety suggests that the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems filings cover diverse subject matter. Practitioners must navigate 3 different sets of examiner and art unit criteria for the 3 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M | 1 | 30.7% | +20.5% |
| MIAN, MUHAMMAD U | 1 | 67.1% | +22.4% |
| WERONSKI, MATTHEW S | 1 | 9.6% | +20.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18947092 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT USING A GENERATIVE AI SYSTEM | MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M | 42d overdue |
| 18321538 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING TOPIC-SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS | MIAN, MUHAMMAD U | 7d |
| 17854329 | AI-AUGMENTED AUDITING PLATFORM INCLUDING TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT OF VOUCHING EVIDENCE | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18947092 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT USING A GENERATIVE AI SYSTEM | MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M | 42d overdue |
| 18321538 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING TOPIC-SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS | MIAN, MUHAMMAD U | 7d |
| 17854329 | AI-AUGMENTED AUDITING PLATFORM INCLUDING TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT OF VOUCHING EVIDENCE | WERONSKI, MATTHEW S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3625 | 1 |
| 2163 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18947092 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT USING A GENERATIVE AI SYSTEM | MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M | 3625 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18321538 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING TOPIC-SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS | MIAN, MUHAMMAD U | 2163 | §101 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
| 17854329 | AI-AUGMENTED AUDITING PLATFORM INCLUDING TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT OF VOUCHING EVIDENCE | WERONSKI, MATTHEW S | 3627 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2022 |
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