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
Signalpet LLC is currently prosecuting applications in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio shows 1 pending office action, which represents the current focus of the company's legal efforts. This 1 pending office action indicates a targeted prosecution phase for the company's intellectual property in this sector.
The prosecution is centralized within 1 distinct art unit and involves 1 distinct examiner. This structure suggests that the company's current matters are being reviewed within a narrow administrative and technical scope. For a practitioner, the presence of 1 distinct examiner means that the prosecution strategy is focused on a single point of evaluation rather than being spread across multiple examiners.
BARTLEY, KENNETH is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with a busiest examiner pending count of 1. This examiner is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently listed. The outcome of the company's pending applications is therefore closely linked to the examination style of BARTLEY, KENNETH. Practitioners should evaluate the history of BARTLEY, KENNETH to understand the likely path forward for these filings.
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARTLEY, KENNETH | 1 | 36.0% | +28.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18092376 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR THE APPLICATION OF REINFORCEMENT LEARNING TO ANIMAL MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS | BARTLEY, KENNETH | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18092376 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR THE APPLICATION OF REINFORCEMENT LEARNING TO ANIMAL MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS | BARTLEY, KENNETH | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3684 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18092376 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR THE APPLICATION OF REINFORCEMENT LEARNING TO ANIMAL MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS | BARTLEY, KENNETH | 3684 | §101 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jan 02, 2023 |
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