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
Sublime LLC is currently active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio has 1 pending office action, which is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. This indicates a focused level of activity within the patent office for their mechanical system filings.
The examination is taking place in 1 distinct art unit. NGUYEN, HIEP VAN is identified as the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action currently assigned. This 1 action is the only pending matter for the company's portfolio at this time. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution path is straightforward and centralized. The 1 pending office action represents the only current hurdle in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. Practitioners can focus their resources on 1 examiner to move the application forward and achieve the company's strategic intellectual property objectives.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, HIEP VAN | 1 | 55.3% | +28.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18034546 | Devices, Systems, and Methods for Affecting Adherence to Medication Protocols | NGUYEN, HIEP VAN | 76d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18034546 | Devices, Systems, and Methods for Affecting Adherence to Medication Protocols | NGUYEN, HIEP VAN | 76d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18034546 | Devices, Systems, and Methods for Affecting Adherence to Medication Protocols | NGUYEN, HIEP VAN | 3686 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
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