Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sirius Xm Connected Vehicle Services Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a distributed prosecution load. This variety indicates that the company's current filings cover different technical sub-sectors or administrative groups.
CIRNU, ALEXANDRU is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 2, the busiest examiner pending count of 1 shows that the workload is split between the 2 distinct examiners. This distribution prevents the portfolio from being overly reliant on the discretion of a single individual. Practitioners should note that the presence of 2 distinct art units requires tracking separate sets of examination guidelines and prior art trends simultaneously.
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 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIRNU, ALEXANDRU | 1 | 42.7% | +21.3% |
| SALAD, ABDULLAHI ELMI | 1 | 84.7% | +9.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17164260 | SEAMLESS APP DOWNLOAD | SALAD, ABDULLAHI ELMI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17531214 | IN-VEHICLE CONTEXTUAL PROMOTIONS | CIRNU, ALEXANDRU | 21d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17531214 | IN-VEHICLE CONTEXTUAL PROMOTIONS | CIRNU, ALEXANDRU | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3622 | 1 |
| 2466 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17531214 | IN-VEHICLE CONTEXTUAL PROMOTIONS | CIRNU, ALEXANDRU | 3622 | §101 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Nov 19, 2021 |
| 17164260 | SEAMLESS APP DOWNLOAD | SALAD, ABDULLAHI ELMI | 2466 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2021 |
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