Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Quercus (Bvi) Limited is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. All these actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a very specific technical focus for the company's current patent portfolio. Furthermore, the pending office actions are being handled by 1 distinct examiner, which is a specific level of concentration for a portfolio of this size.
TRAN, HAI is the busiest examiner for this company, currently managing the 3 pending office actions. With only a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit involved, the company's entire current prosecution strategy depends on the interactions with this single official. This level of concentration in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area means that the outcome of these pending office actions will be heavily influenced by the specific preferences of TRAN, HAI. Practitioners should focus on building a consistent relationship with this examiner to resolve the 3 pending office actions, as all 3 are currently under his review.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, HAI | 3 | 62.1% | +31.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18531414 | Systems And Methods for Automatically Initiating Secondary Transacions From A Consumer To A Pre - Selected Account | TRAN, HAI | 124d overdue |
| 18528463 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING PAYMENTS TO A THIRD PARTY FOR THE THIRD PARTY PROVIDING A PRODUCT OR SERVICE | TRAN, HAI | 2d overdue |
| 18529259 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MERCHANT REWARDS | TRAN, HAI | 43d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18531414 | Systems And Methods for Automatically Initiating Secondary Transacions From A Consumer To A Pre - Selected Account | TRAN, HAI | 124d overdue |
| 18528463 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING PAYMENTS TO A THIRD PARTY FOR THE THIRD PARTY PROVIDING A PRODUCT OR SERVICE | TRAN, HAI | 2d overdue |
| 18529259 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MERCHANT REWARDS | TRAN, HAI | 43d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3695 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18531414 | Systems And Methods for Automatically Initiating Secondary Transacions From A Consumer To A Pre - Selected Account | TRAN, HAI | 3695 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 124d overdue | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18529259 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MERCHANT REWARDS | TRAN, HAI | 3695 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 43d | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18528463 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING PAYMENTS TO A THIRD PARTY FOR THE THIRD PARTY PROVIDING A PRODUCT OR SERVICE | TRAN, HAI | 3695 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
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