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
Supporting Initiatives to Redistribute Unused Medicine (Sirum) operates within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action, which is handled by 1 distinct examiner. This examiner, ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K, is identified as the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending case under review. The prosecution activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a precise technical categorization for the pending matter.
The presence of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a streamlined interaction with the patent office. For a portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems space, this singular focus indicates that the current legal efforts are concentrated on a specific application or invention. Practitioners managing this portfolio face a consolidated workload, as the 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the active examination queue. This lack of examiner diversity means that the outcome of the current prosecution rests solely with ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K, within the designated art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K | 1 | 32.4% | +40.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19039724 | CHAOTIC STORAGE OF PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS | ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K | 28d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19039724 | CHAOTIC STORAGE OF PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS | ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K | 3682 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
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