Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Taisho Sky Building Inc. currently manages 7 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed across 7 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates that the company's current filings are receiving individual attention from a wide range of examiners. Practitioners should note that the 7 distinct examiners are more numerous than the 4 distinct art units, suggesting some overlap in the technical groups reviewing the applications.
Because the 7 pending office actions are spread across 4 distinct art units, the company must maintain a coordinated strategy to ensure consistent arguments. The involvement of 7 distinct examiners means that the prosecution is decentralized, requiring practitioners to monitor multiple examiner profiles simultaneously. Studying the specific tendencies of HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P is important for the 1 pending office action under their review. Effectively managing 7 pending office actions across 4 distinct art units requires a high level of oversight. This structure allows the company to receive feedback from various perspectives within the patent office, which can be used to refine the overall intellectual property strategy for the transportation sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 4 (67%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P | 1 | 24.7% | +16.7% |
| AZIZ, ADNAN | 1 | 76.7% | +35.0% |
| CRANDALL, RICHARD W. | 1 | 30.2% | +33.8% |
| CLARE, MARK C | 1 | 14.2% | +19.9% |
| WERONSKI, MATTHEW S | 1 | 9.6% | +20.0% |
| VETTER, DANIEL | 1 | 20.1% | +9.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17463212 | TIME RENTAL FACILITY | VETTER, DANIEL | 56d overdue |
| 17578438 | INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR RENTAL SPACE | WERONSKI, MATTHEW S | 42d overdue |
| 18334654 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR HOURLY RENTAL FACILITIES | HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P | 37d overdue |
| 17660901 | PAY-BY-HOUR FACILITY | CRANDALL, RICHARD W. | 40d |
| 17651937 | RENTAL SPACE | CLARE, MARK C | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17578438 | INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR RENTAL SPACE | WERONSKI, MATTHEW S | 42d overdue |
| 18334654 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR HOURLY RENTAL FACILITIES | HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P | 37d overdue |
| 17660901 | PAY-BY-HOUR FACILITY | CRANDALL, RICHARD W. | 40d |
| 17822798 | UNMANNED PRIVATE VIEWING SYSTEM | AZIZ, ADNAN | — |
| 17651937 | RENTAL SPACE | CLARE, MARK C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 3 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18334654 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR HOURLY RENTAL FACILITIES | HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P | 3628 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 37d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 17822798 | UNMANNED PRIVATE VIEWING SYSTEM | AZIZ, ADNAN | 2685 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2022 |
| 17660901 | PAY-BY-HOUR FACILITY | CRANDALL, RICHARD W. | 3619 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Apr 27, 2022 |
| 17651937 | RENTAL SPACE | CLARE, MARK C | 3628 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2022 |
| 17578438 | INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR RENTAL SPACE | WERONSKI, MATTHEW S | 3627 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Jan 18, 2022 |
| 17463212 | TIME RENTAL FACILITY | VETTER, DANIEL | 3628 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | Aug 31, 2021 |
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