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
Steward Health Care Investors, LLC has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio is currently handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific focus for the company's current patent applications, with all activity funneling through 1 point of examination within the patent office. Such a concentrated structure suggests that the applicant is targeting a narrow technological field without broader diversification across different administrative units at this stage.
The busiest examiner, KONERU, SUJAY, is assigned the 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio involves only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution process is highly centralized. This concentration means that the outcome of the pending action is entirely subject to the standards and practices of KONERU, SUJAY, without the complexity of managing multiple examiners or different art unit guidelines. For the practitioner, this singular focus allows for a highly tailored response strategy that addresses the specific concerns of the 1 distinct examiner while adhering to the procedural norms of the 1 distinct art unit involved.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KONERU, SUJAY | 1 | 58.2% | +37.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18902391 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONICALLY PRESCRIBING TASK SESSIONS | KONERU, SUJAY | 29d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18902391 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONICALLY PRESCRIBING TASK SESSIONS | KONERU, SUJAY | 29d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18902391 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONICALLY PRESCRIBING TASK SESSIONS | KONERU, SUJAY | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 29d overdue | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
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