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
School Innovations & Achievement Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company's patent prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, which reflects a highly targeted approach to its intellectual property. This concentration allows for a focused legal strategy, as all current interactions with the patent office occur within a single technical and administrative silo.
The busiest examiner, KONERU, SUJAY, is overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As this is the only pending action for the portfolio, the examiner's specific expertise in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems is the most critical factor in the company's current prosecution. The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technology has been classified narrowly by the patent office.
Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific examination style of KONERU, SUJAY, to effectively resolve the 1 pending office action. Reviewing the examiner's past conduct within the 1 distinct art unit can provide valuable insights into how to structure the response. This focused preparation is necessary because the entire pending workload is currently managed by this 1 examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KONERU, SUJAY | 1 | 58.2% | +37.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17246622 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STUDENT ATTENDANCE MANAGEMENT | KONERU, SUJAY | 17d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17246622 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STUDENT ATTENDANCE MANAGEMENT | KONERU, SUJAY | 17d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17246622 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STUDENT ATTENDANCE MANAGEMENT | KONERU, SUJAY | 3624 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | May 01, 2021 |
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