Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sabanto Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This small portfolio shows a direct relationship between the number of actions and the number of examiners, with each examiner handling a single action. The involvement of 2 distinct art units for only 3 actions suggests that the company's mechanical systems technology is split between different specialized examination groups within the office.
The busiest examiner is LEVY, MERRITT E, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions, the workload is evenly distributed. For the practitioner, this means coordinating with 3 different individuals across 2 distinct art units. Even with a small number of 3 pending office actions, the presence of 2 distinct art units requires attention to the different procedural and technical expectations of each specialized group. The workload of 1 pending office action for LEVY, MERRITT E is the standard for this company.
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 | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEVY, MERRITT E | 1 | 32.3% | +33.5% |
| ROBINSON, KITO R | 1 | 62.3% | +38.9% |
| IVEY, DANA DESHAWN | 1 | 88.5% | +6.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18343891 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED OPERATION OF A WORKING VEHICLE | IVEY, DANA DESHAWN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19225110 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED OPERATION OF A WORKING VEHICLE | LEVY, MERRITT E | — |
| 18343843 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED OPERATION OF A WORKING VEHICLE | ROBINSON, KITO R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3664 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19225110 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED OPERATION OF A WORKING VEHICLE | LEVY, MERRITT E | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 18343843 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED OPERATION OF A WORKING VEHICLE | ROBINSON, KITO R | 3664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18343891 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED OPERATION OF A WORKING VEHICLE | IVEY, DANA DESHAWN | 3662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
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