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
Sufian Munir Inc. maintains 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio is handled by a distinct examiner, SITTNER, MICHAEL J, who holds 1 pending action as the busiest examiner. Prosecution activity is localized within a distinct art unit. With only a single examiner involved, the company's immediate patent strategy depends entirely on the interactions within this specific organizational unit. Practitioners should focus on the specific procedural preferences of the assigned individual.
The concentration of the pending office action under SITTNER, MICHAEL J means that the company's current patent efforts are centralized. This focus in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector suggests a targeted approach to intellectual property. Because there is no distribution across multiple examiners, the prosecution outcomes are currently tied to a single individual's review. This requires close monitoring of the specific art unit's historical trends to anticipate potential hurdles.
For a portfolio with a single pending matter, every communication from the office carries significant weight. Practitioners should evaluate the examiner's past behavior in mechanical systems to refine their arguments. The lack of diversity in examiners and art units simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the importance of a successful outcome in this specific matter. Strategic use of interviews or pre-appeal requests may be beneficial given the centralized nature of the review.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SITTNER, MICHAEL J | 1 | 10.8% | +14.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18471208 | AN ADAPTIVE STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | SITTNER, MICHAEL J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18471208 | AN ADAPTIVE STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | SITTNER, MICHAEL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3621 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18471208 | AN ADAPTIVE STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | SITTNER, MICHAEL J | 3621 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSufian Munir Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael J Sittner has the most, with 1 of Sufian Munir Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
