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
Siemens Digital Logistics GmbH is managing 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This focused prosecution profile suggests that the company's current patent efforts in this area are concentrated on a specific logistics or transportation technology. The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit ensures a singular set of examination guidelines for the pending matter.
The busiest examiner, ROBINSON, AKIBA KANELLE, is responsible for 1 pending office action. As the only distinct examiner for the portfolio, this individual's assessment is the primary factor in the current prosecution. Practitioners can focus their resources on understanding the specific precedents and preferences of this 1 distinct art unit to optimize the prosecution of the pending matter. This singular focus within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area indicates that the company's current patent efforts are likely directed toward a specific technological niche.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBINSON, AKIBA KANELLE | 1 | 38.2% | +24.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18981533 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING A PRODUCT AT A TARGET LOCATION AT A PREDETERMINABLE TIME | ROBINSON, AKIBA KANELLE | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18981533 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING A PRODUCT AT A TARGET LOCATION AT A PREDETERMINABLE TIME | ROBINSON, AKIBA KANELLE | 3628 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Dec 14, 2024 |
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