Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Scalr Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's patent activities are spread across multiple specialized review groups within the USPTO. Practitioners must navigate the different requirements of 2 distinct art units, making the prosecution strategy for this Computing & Software portfolio more varied than a single-examiner portfolio.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ZHAO, BING, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Although identified as the busiest, this examiner handles only a portion of the workload, as the total pending office actions count is 2. The fact that there are 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending actions shows that each matter is being reviewed by a different individual. Success in this technology area depends on addressing the unique procedural preferences of each assigned examiner. Practitioners should monitor the specific history of ZHAO, BING while also preparing for the distinct approach of the other examiner involved.
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 (50%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHAO, BING | 1 | 89.7% | +46.6% |
| BALLOU, MAAME BOAKYEWAA | 1 | 17.4% | +19.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18130599 | INFRASTRUCTURE PROVISIONING RUN PRIORITIZATION | ZHAO, BING | 117d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18113107 | PLAN VALIDATION AND POLICY CHECKS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENTS | BALLOU, MAAME BOAKYEWAA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18130599 | INFRASTRUCTURE PROVISIONING RUN PRIORITIZATION | ZHAO, BING | 117d overdue |
| 18113107 | PLAN VALIDATION AND POLICY CHECKS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENTS | BALLOU, MAAME BOAKYEWAA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2151 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18130599 | INFRASTRUCTURE PROVISIONING RUN PRIORITIZATION | ZHAO, BING | 2151 | §103 | Final Rejection | 117d overdue | Pending | Apr 04, 2023 |
| 18113107 | PLAN VALIDATION AND POLICY CHECKS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENTS | BALLOU, MAAME BOAKYEWAA | 3629 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
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