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
Taskmaster Technologies Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is being handled within a single art unit. The company's current prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, which represents a highly focused set of active proceedings. This centralized arrangement means that the company's immediate patent goals are subject to the review of a single administrative entity.
MICHAEL BEKERMAN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with the pending office action currently under review. This single action constitutes the entirety of the pending workload for the company. With a single examiner and art unit, the prosecution environment is centralized. Practitioners can tailor their responses to the specific tendencies of MICHAEL BEKERMAN and the standards of the single art unit involved. The focus on the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area through a single examiner allows for a very specific legal approach. Efficiently resolving the active prosecution will require a deep understanding of the examiner's history and the specific requirements of the assigned 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEKERMAN, MICHAEL | 1 | 32.5% | +31.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19198706 | Method And System For Bidding On Uncontested Search Advertising Auctions | BEKERMAN, MICHAEL | 41d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19198706 | Method And System For Bidding On Uncontested Search Advertising Auctions | BEKERMAN, MICHAEL | 41d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3621 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19198706 | Method And System For Bidding On Uncontested Search Advertising Auctions | BEKERMAN, MICHAEL | 3621 | §101 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
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