Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sirius Xm Radio LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Both of these actions are being processed within 1 distinct art unit, showing a high degree of technical concentration for the company's current filings. The company is currently working with 2 distinct examiners to resolve these pending matters.
The busiest examiner for the company is DO, TRUC M, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This means that the pending office actions are assigned to different examiners, as the busiest examiner only handles a single action. Having the 2 pending office actions in a distinct art unit allows the company to focus on the specific standards of that single group. However, the presence of distinct examiners means that the company must still account for different individual styles and preferences. The Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area provides the context for the workload.
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 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DO, TRUC M | 1 | 82.2% | +6.2% |
| SMITH, BRIAN M | 1 | 52.5% | +36.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18823217 | HIGH RESOLUTION ENCODING AND TRANSMISSION OF TRAFFIC INFORMATION | DO, TRUC M | 87d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18594811 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MUSICRECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON COMBINING SONG AND USER INFLUENCERS WITH CHANNEL RULE CHARACTERIZATIONS | SMITH, BRIAN M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18594811 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MUSICRECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON COMBINING SONG AND USER INFLUENCERS WITH CHANNEL RULE CHARACTERIZATIONS | SMITH, BRIAN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3658 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18823217 | HIGH RESOLUTION ENCODING AND TRANSMISSION OF TRAFFIC INFORMATION | DO, TRUC M | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 87d overdue | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18594811 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MUSICRECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON COMBINING SONG AND USER INFLUENCERS WITH CHANNEL RULE CHARACTERIZATIONS | SMITH, BRIAN M | — | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
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