Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
14 pending office actions • 10 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd. maintains a portfolio with 13 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are handled by 13 distinct examiners, showing a complete lack of examiner overlap across the company's active files. The breadth of the portfolio is further evidenced by its presence in 9 distinct art units, indicating a wide-ranging technical scope within the transportation and e-commerce sectors.
The busiest examiner, TO, TUAN C, is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 13 distinct examiners each handling exactly one case, the prosecution strategy cannot rely on building a relationship with a single high-volume examiner. Instead, the company must manage unique examiner interactions across a diverse array of 9 distinct art units, requiring a broad and adaptable approach to USPTO negotiations. This high level of fragmentation across the art units suggests that the company's patentable subject matter is highly diverse, necessitating specialized expertise for each individual filing. Practitioners should be prepared for a variety of examination styles and procedural nuances across this expansive portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 only | 4 (29%) |
| §101 + other | 7 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TO, TUAN C | 1 | 86.1% | +10.0% |
| OJIAKU, CHIKAODINAKA | 1 | 45.9% | +8.5% |
| EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | 1 | 1.9% | +1.1% |
| KWONG, CHO YIU | 1 | 32.3% | +4.3% |
| BOSWELL, BETH V | 1 | 9.9% | -2.2% |
| BROWNE, SCOTT A | 1 | 72.0% | +35.6% |
| KANG, IRENE S | 1 | 16.4% | +26.2% |
| MILLER, JAMES H | 1 | 40.9% | +36.5% |
| WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | 1 | 47.1% | +100.0% |
| BALAJ, ANTHONY MICHAEL | 1 | 30.6% | +30.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18876441 | VEHICLE TESTING APPARATUS FOR FULL VEHICLE PERFORMANCE TESTING AS WELL AS VEHICLE TESTING OF INDIVIDUAL ON-BOARD SYSTEMS/SOFTWARE, SENSORS AND COMBINATIONS OF SENSORS, AND METHOD THEREOF | TO, TUAN C | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18439432 | DIGITAL LIFE AND/OR HEALTH CLAIMS PROCESSING SYSTEM INTEGRATING MULTIPLE CLAIM CHANNELS, AND METHOD THEREOF | KWONG, CHO YIU | 28d |
| 18446949 | CLOUD-BASED, SCALABLE, ADVANCED ANALYTICS PLATFORM FOR ANALYZING COMPLEX MEDICAL RISK DATA AND PROVIDING DEDICATED ELECTRONIC TRIGGER SIGNALS FOR TRIGGERING RISK-RELATED ACTIVITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF MEDICAL RISK-TRANSFER, AND METHOD THEREOF | BALAJ, ANTHONY MICHAEL | 29d |
| 18622223 | OPEN DIGITAL, DATA DRIVEN UNDERWRITING (UW) SYSTEM AND LOSS EVENT SIMULATION PLATFORM AND METHOD THEREOF | OJIAKU, CHIKAODINAKA | — |
| 18438558 | DIGITAL SYSTEM AND PLATFORM PROVIDING A USER-SPECIFIC ADAPTABLE, FLEXIBLE DATA PROCESSING USING A COMBINATION OF A MARKOV CHAIN MODELLING STRUCTURES AND CONFIGURABLE ELEMENTS AS STATES AND/OR STATE TRANSITIONS SPECIFIC TO AN INDIVIDUAL, AND METHOD THEREOF | EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | — |
| 18543686 | DIGITAL SYSTEM FOR FORECASTING A FUTURE DAMAGE OR LOSS IMPACT ON CARGO OR CARGO LOGISTICS SERVICES AND AUTOMATED ALLOCATING OF A DAMAGE COVER AND METHOD THEREOF | BOSWELL, BETH V | — |
| 18372305 | AUTOMATED DYNAMIC ROUTING UNIT AND METHOD THEREOF | BROWNE, SCOTT A | — |
| 18367651 | DIGITAL SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLED BOOST OF EXPERT FORECASTS IN COMPLEX PREDICTION ENVIRONMENTS AND CORRESPONDING METHOD THEREOF | KANG, IRENE S | — |
| 18237032 | SMART UNDERWRITING SYSTEM WITH FAST, PROCESSING-TIME OPTIMIZED, COMPLETE POINT OF SALE DECISION-MAKING AND SMART DATA PROCESSING ENGINE, AND METHOD THEREOF | MILLER, JAMES H | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18446949 | CLOUD-BASED, SCALABLE, ADVANCED ANALYTICS PLATFORM FOR ANALYZING COMPLEX MEDICAL RISK DATA AND PROVIDING DEDICATED ELECTRONIC TRIGGER SIGNALS FOR TRIGGERING RISK-RELATED ACTIVITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF MEDICAL RISK-TRANSFER, AND METHOD THEREOF | BALAJ, ANTHONY MICHAEL | 29d |
| 18876441 | VEHICLE TESTING APPARATUS FOR FULL VEHICLE PERFORMANCE TESTING AS WELL AS VEHICLE TESTING OF INDIVIDUAL ON-BOARD SYSTEMS/SOFTWARE, SENSORS AND COMBINATIONS OF SENSORS, AND METHOD THEREOF | TO, TUAN C | — |
| 18372305 | AUTOMATED DYNAMIC ROUTING UNIT AND METHOD THEREOF | BROWNE, SCOTT A | — |
| 18367651 | DIGITAL SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLED BOOST OF EXPERT FORECASTS IN COMPLEX PREDICTION ENVIRONMENTS AND CORRESPONDING METHOD THEREOF | KANG, IRENE S | — |
| 18237032 | SMART UNDERWRITING SYSTEM WITH FAST, PROCESSING-TIME OPTIMIZED, COMPLETE POINT OF SALE DECISION-MAKING AND SMART DATA PROCESSING ENGINE, AND METHOD THEREOF | MILLER, JAMES H | — |
| 18233997 | AUTOMATED STANDARDIZED LOCATION DIGITAL TWIN AND LOCATION DIGITAL TWIN METHOD FACTORING IN DYNAMIC DATA AT DIFFERENT CONSTRUCTION LEVELS, AND SYSTEM THEREOF | WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3695 | 3 |
| 3693 | 2 |
| 3661 | 1 |
| 3600 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| 3696 | 1 |
| 3694 | 1 |
| 3682 | 1 |
| 3692 | 1 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18876441 | VEHICLE TESTING APPARATUS FOR FULL VEHICLE PERFORMANCE TESTING AS WELL AS VEHICLE TESTING OF INDIVIDUAL ON-BOARD SYSTEMS/SOFTWARE, SENSORS AND COMBINATIONS OF SENSORS, AND METHOD THEREOF | TO, TUAN C | 3661 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18622223 | OPEN DIGITAL, DATA DRIVEN UNDERWRITING (UW) SYSTEM AND LOSS EVENT SIMULATION PLATFORM AND METHOD THEREOF | OJIAKU, CHIKAODINAKA | 3695 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18438558 | DIGITAL SYSTEM AND PLATFORM PROVIDING A USER-SPECIFIC ADAPTABLE, FLEXIBLE DATA PROCESSING USING A COMBINATION OF A MARKOV CHAIN MODELLING STRUCTURES AND CONFIGURABLE ELEMENTS AS STATES AND/OR STATE TRANSITIONS SPECIFIC TO AN INDIVIDUAL, AND METHOD THEREOF | EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | 3695 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18439432 | DIGITAL LIFE AND/OR HEALTH CLAIMS PROCESSING SYSTEM INTEGRATING MULTIPLE CLAIM CHANNELS, AND METHOD THEREOF | KWONG, CHO YIU | 3693 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18543686 | DIGITAL SYSTEM FOR FORECASTING A FUTURE DAMAGE OR LOSS IMPACT ON CARGO OR CARGO LOGISTICS SERVICES AND AUTOMATED ALLOCATING OF A DAMAGE COVER AND METHOD THEREOF | BOSWELL, BETH V | 3600 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18372305 | AUTOMATED DYNAMIC ROUTING UNIT AND METHOD THEREOF | BROWNE, SCOTT A | 3666 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18367651 | DIGITAL SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLED BOOST OF EXPERT FORECASTS IN COMPLEX PREDICTION ENVIRONMENTS AND CORRESPONDING METHOD THEREOF | KANG, IRENE S | 3696 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18237032 | SMART UNDERWRITING SYSTEM WITH FAST, PROCESSING-TIME OPTIMIZED, COMPLETE POINT OF SALE DECISION-MAKING AND SMART DATA PROCESSING ENGINE, AND METHOD THEREOF | MILLER, JAMES H | 3694 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18233997 | AUTOMATED STANDARDIZED LOCATION DIGITAL TWIN AND LOCATION DIGITAL TWIN METHOD FACTORING IN DYNAMIC DATA AT DIFFERENT CONSTRUCTION LEVELS, AND SYSTEM THEREOF | WHITE, JAY MICHAEL | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2023 |
| 18446949 | CLOUD-BASED, SCALABLE, ADVANCED ANALYTICS PLATFORM FOR ANALYZING COMPLEX MEDICAL RISK DATA AND PROVIDING DEDICATED ELECTRONIC TRIGGER SIGNALS FOR TRIGGERING RISK-RELATED ACTIVITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF MEDICAL RISK-TRANSFER, AND METHOD THEREOF | BALAJ, ANTHONY MICHAEL | 3682 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
| 18232011 | AUTOMATED PARAMETRIC MODULAR SYSTEM OR DIGITAL PLATFORM FOR FORWARD-LOOKING MEASUREMENTS AND RATINGS OF MEASURABLE IMPACTS OF OCCURRING FLOOD EVENTS AND MODULAR AUTOMATED RISK-TRANSFER STRUCTURE PROVIDING AN ADJUSTABLE FLOOD IMPACT COVER AND METHOD THEREOF | LIU, CHIA-YI | 3692 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
| 18052033 | Optical Fraud Detector for Automated Detection Of Fraud In Digital Imaginary-Based Automobile Claims, Automated Damage Recognition, and Method Thereof | HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER | 3695 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2022 |
| 18049115 | Intermediary, Digital, Data-Driven Platform for Standardised Linking of Complex Industrial Ecosystems and Risk Transfer Technology Ecosystems and Corresponding Processes | ROSEN, ELIZABETH H | 3693 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
| 17096461 | Digital Channel for Automated Parameter-Driven, Scenario-Based Risk-Measurement, Classification and Underwriting in Fragmented, Unstructured Data Environments And Corresponding Method Thereof | BOYCE, ANDRE D | 3623 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2020 |
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