Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Skyryse Inc. manages a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. There are currently 6 pending office actions within this portfolio. These actions are distributed across 6 distinct examiners, meaning every pending action is handled by a different individual. This creates a highly diversified prosecution environment for the company.
The workload is spread across 4 distinct art units. Masud Ahmed is identified as the busiest examiner, though he is responsible for only 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This reflects a fragmented prosecution landscape where the 6 pending office actions are not concentrated under any single examiner, requiring the company to manage interactions with many different USPTO personnel. With 6 distinct examiners involved, the company must navigate multiple different sets of examiner preferences across the 4 distinct art units.
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 (17%) |
| §103 only | 3 (50%) |
| §112 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHMED, MASUD | 1 | 82.5% | +13.2% |
| GREENE, DANIEL LAWSON | 1 | 76.5% | +16.8% |
| SHARMA, SHIVAM | 1 | 43.4% | +8.7% |
| HILGENDORF, DALE W | 1 | 84.1% | +21.7% |
| ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY | 1 | 44.6% | +32.5% |
| CARDIMINO, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 1 | 57.7% | +22.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18771968 | AUTOMATED AND USER ASSISTED AIR VEHICLE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT | HILGENDORF, DALE W | 57d |
| 19197863 | Automated Aircraft Startup and Shutdown | AHMED, MASUD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18773458 | DYNAMIC FLIGHT ENVELOPE PROTECTION AND DEGRADED FLIGHT STATE OPERATIONS IN A VEHICLE CONTROL AND INTERFACE SYSTEM | SHARMA, SHIVAM | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18771968 | AUTOMATED AND USER ASSISTED AIR VEHICLE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT | HILGENDORF, DALE W | 57d |
| 19197863 | Automated Aircraft Startup and Shutdown | AHMED, MASUD | — |
| 19172461 | Vehicle Traffic Control with Voice to Text | GREENE, DANIEL LAWSON | — |
| 18589171 | SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, VEHICLE CONTROL, AND/OR CONTINGENCY PLANNING FOR AIRCRAFT ACTUATOR FAILURE | ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY | — |
| 18541523 | MOVABLE VEHICLE CONTROL INTERFACE | CARDIMINO, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| 3661 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19197863 | Automated Aircraft Startup and Shutdown | AHMED, MASUD | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19172461 | Vehicle Traffic Control with Voice to Text | GREENE, DANIEL LAWSON | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 18773458 | DYNAMIC FLIGHT ENVELOPE PROTECTION AND DEGRADED FLIGHT STATE OPERATIONS IN A VEHICLE CONTROL AND INTERFACE SYSTEM | SHARMA, SHIVAM | 3665 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18771968 | AUTOMATED AND USER ASSISTED AIR VEHICLE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT | HILGENDORF, DALE W | 3662 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 57d | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18589171 | SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, VEHICLE CONTROL, AND/OR CONTINGENCY PLANNING FOR AIRCRAFT ACTUATOR FAILURE | ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY | 3669 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18541523 | MOVABLE VEHICLE CONTROL INTERFACE | CARDIMINO, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 3661 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
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