Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Rovi Guides Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution is split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's current patenting efforts are spread across different specialized groups within the USPTO, reflecting a broader technological scope than a more centralized portfolio.
LEAH NICOLE MILLER is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, this examiner handles 1 of them. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's mechanical or e-commerce innovations may have diverse applications requiring different examination expertise. Practitioners must manage the 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, which may result in varying prosecution timelines and requirements for each of the pending matters currently under review.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER, LEAH NICOLE | 1 | 54.3% | -4.7% |
| SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 1 | 52.2% | +61.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17366918 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATIONS BASED ON A POSITION OF A BRAIN MONITORING USER DEVICE | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17366918 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATIONS BASED ON A POSITION OF A BRAIN MONITORING USER DEVICE | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3663 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18088220 | Systems and Methods to Provide Otherwise Obscured Information to a User | MILLER, LEAH NICOLE | 3663 | §103 | Final Rejection | 124d overdue | Pending | Dec 23, 2022 |
| 17366918 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATIONS BASED ON A POSITION OF A BRAIN MONITORING USER DEVICE | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jul 02, 2021 |
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