Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Shawn R Hutchinson manages a patent portfolio situated in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently has 2 pending office actions, indicating a multi-faceted prosecution effort. This volume of activity suggests that the applicant is actively pursuing multiple distinct claims or applications simultaneously within these mechanical and commercial sectors.
The examination process is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the portfolio spans different technical sub-specialties within the broader mechanical and e-commerce fields. The involvement of multiple art units may require the legal team to adapt to different examination styles and procedural norms across the patent office, as each unit may have unique technical priorities.
VETTER, DANIEL is designated as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. While there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split, with the busiest examiner pending count being 1. This division of labor means that no single examiner controls the entire portfolio, requiring a coordinated approach across different examination tracks to ensure consistency in the company intellectual property strategy.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VETTER, DANIEL | 1 | 20.1% | +9.0% |
| MACASIANO, MARILYN G | 1 | 57.5% | +17.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17684067 | Value Systems | VETTER, DANIEL | 160d overdue |
| 17473608 | Secure Authentication and Financial Attributes Services | MACASIANO, MARILYN G | 146d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17473608 | Secure Authentication and Financial Attributes Services | MACASIANO, MARILYN G | 146d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 1 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17684067 | Value Systems | VETTER, DANIEL | 3628 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 160d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2022 |
| 17473608 | Secure Authentication and Financial Attributes Services | MACASIANO, MARILYN G | 3622 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 146d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2021 |
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