Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sita Information Networking Computing UK Limited has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Each of these 3 pending actions is assigned to a different individual, resulting in 3 distinct examiners for the portfolio. These matters are spread across 2 distinct art units, showing the administrative groups handling the applications. The presence of 2 distinct art units for the pending work suggests that the company's technology touches on different specialized classifications.
Nathan Erb is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 distinct examiners for the total actions, this workload is distributed among the assigned individuals. Practitioners should expect a unique examiner for each of the 3 pending office actions, requiring specific strategies for every case. The involvement of 3 distinct examiners across 2 art units means the company must navigate multiple examination styles within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. Each examiner brings an individual perspective to the prosecution of these 3 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ERB, NATHAN | 1 | 51.4% | +0.1% |
| HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P | 1 | 24.7% | +16.7% |
| ANYAN, BARBARA BURGESS | 1 | 77.9% | -24.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19185748 | BAGGAGE NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P | 27d |
| 19185775 | BAGGAGE AUTO-REFLIGHTING | ERB, NATHAN | 56d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19185748 | BAGGAGE NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 2 |
| 2457 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19185775 | BAGGAGE AUTO-REFLIGHTING | ERB, NATHAN | 3628 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19185748 | BAGGAGE NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P | 3628 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 18810981 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD | ANYAN, BARBARA BURGESS | 2457 | §102 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
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