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
Simplenight Inc. maintains 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner in the distinct art unit. The portfolio's current activity is centralized due to the pending matter. The art unit involved reflects the specific technical focus of the active office action.
JOSEPH, TONYA S is identified as the busiest examiner, responsible for the busiest examiner pending action. In a portfolio with the distinct examiner, this individual manages the entirety of the company's active office actions. This creates a direct relationship between the applicant and the point of review at the USPTO.
Practitioners can observe that the pending action is not spread across multiple examiners, as the count of distinct examiners is also 1. This concentration under JOSEPH, TONYA S means that all current progress depends on the review of the busiest examiner. The ratio between pending actions and examiners simplifies the tracking of current USPTO interactions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOSEPH, TONYA S | 1 | 24.2% | +19.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19197213 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A PERSONAL AGENT | JOSEPH, TONYA S | 44d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19197213 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A PERSONAL AGENT | JOSEPH, TONYA S | 44d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19197213 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A PERSONAL AGENT | JOSEPH, TONYA S | 3628 | §101 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSimplenight Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Tonya S Joseph has the most, with 1 of Simplenight Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.