Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sdc U S Smilepay Spv has 4 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and distinct art units. WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. The portfolio is widely dispersed, with each of the actions being reviewed in a different art unit.
The distribution of 4 pending office actions across distinct art units suggests that the company's Computing & Software innovations cover a variety of technical sub-sectors. Because 4 distinct examiners are involved, each action is being reviewed by a different individual. WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE is the busiest examiner despite only managing 1 pending office action. This indicates a completely decentralized prosecution landscape where no single examiner or art unit has a concentration of the company's pending office actions. Practitioners should be prepared to navigate different examiner styles across separate art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 1 | 14.3% | +100.0% |
| SAINI, AMANDEEP SINGH | 1 | 89.7% | +8.4% |
| WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | 1 | 47.1% | +100.0% |
| ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R | 1 | 76.7% | +10.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18236810 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED MESH CLEANUP | SAINI, AMANDEEP SINGH | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18710822 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A TREATMENT PLAN FOR ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 80d overdue |
| 17882201 | TOOTH MOVEMENT CONTROL BASED ON SURFACE ENGAGEMENT | WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | 71d overdue |
| 17843381 | SCANNING DEVICE | ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18710822 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A TREATMENT PLAN FOR ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 80d overdue |
| 17882201 | TOOTH MOVEMENT CONTROL BASED ON SURFACE ENGAGEMENT | WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | 71d overdue |
| 17843381 | SCANNING DEVICE | ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| 2600 | 1 |
| 2188 | 1 |
| 2119 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18710822 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A TREATMENT PLAN FOR ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 3772 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 80d overdue | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18236810 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED MESH CLEANUP | SAINI, AMANDEEP SINGH | 2600 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 17882201 | TOOTH MOVEMENT CONTROL BASED ON SURFACE ENGAGEMENT | WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | 2188 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Aug 05, 2022 |
| 17843381 | SCANNING DEVICE | ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R | 2119 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
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