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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rhinogram Inc. maintains a focused patent portfolio within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently faces 1 pending office action, which is handled by a distinct examiner. This concentration suggests a highly specific or early-stage prosecution phase where matters are not yet widely distributed across the patent office staff.
The portfolio's activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, aligning with its specialized technology focus. SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D is the busiest examiner associated with the company's filings. This examiner is responsible for the pending office action. For a practitioner, this indicates that the outcome of the portfolio's immediate prosecution rests on a single examiner's interpretation within a specific art unit. This lack of examiner diversity means that the company's current patent strategy is highly sensitive to the individual examination style and precedents of this specific official.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D | 1 | 36.1% | +44.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19044186 | AUTOMATED CONSENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING SAME | SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19044186 | AUTOMATED CONSENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING SAME | SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19044186 | AUTOMATED CONSENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING SAME | SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D | 3626 | §101§103Other | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
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