Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tbcasoft Inc. is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are notably diverse in their assignment, involving 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This one-to-one ratio between pending actions and examiners suggests that each application is being evaluated independently by a different individual.
PRESTON, JOHN O is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, though they are only handling 1 of the pending actions. This indicates that the workload is perfectly distributed across the 4 distinct examiners. The involvement of 4 distinct art units within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field suggests that the company's innovations touch upon several different sub-sectors or technical classifications.
The 4 pending office actions represent a broad front of prosecution activity. Because each action is in a different art unit, the company must navigate distinct sets of examiner preferences and art unit trends. PRESTON, JOHN O, despite being the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, shares the same volume as the other three examiners. This spread across the art units within the technical area highlights a varied intellectual property 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 | 2 (40%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRESTON, JOHN O | 1 | 28.4% | +7.7% |
| WALIULLAH, MOHAMMED | 1 | 86.7% | +11.0% |
| GETACHEW, WODAJO | 1 | 40.8% | +38.6% |
| ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | 1 | 82.9% | +17.2% |
| SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 1 | 26.3% | +14.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18030764 | DISTRIBUTED LEDGER BASED CRYPTOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING DATA INTEGRITY | WALIULLAH, MOHAMMED | 70d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17830360 | METHODS FOR ACCURATE DOWNTIME CACULATION | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | 45d overdue |
| 19134763 | METHODS FOR CROSS-SERVICE PROVIDER ONLINE PAYMENT | PRESTON, JOHN O | — |
| 17996079 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOLVING A TARGET | GETACHEW, WODAJO | — |
| 16318380 | DIGITAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT ON A DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION CONSENSUS NETWORK | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17830360 | METHODS FOR ACCURATE DOWNTIME CACULATION | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | 45d overdue |
| 18030764 | DISTRIBUTED LEDGER BASED CRYPTOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING DATA INTEGRITY | WALIULLAH, MOHAMMED | 70d |
| 17996079 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOLVING A TARGET | GETACHEW, WODAJO | — |
| 16318380 | DIGITAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT ON A DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION CONSENSUS NETWORK | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3697 | 2 |
| 3693 | 1 |
| 2498 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19134763 | METHODS FOR CROSS-SERVICE PROVIDER ONLINE PAYMENT | PRESTON, JOHN O | 3693 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 18030764 | DISTRIBUTED LEDGER BASED CRYPTOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING DATA INTEGRITY | WALIULLAH, MOHAMMED | 2498 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Apr 06, 2023 |
| 17996079 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOLVING A TARGET | GETACHEW, WODAJO | 3697 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2022 |
| 17830360 | METHODS FOR ACCURATE DOWNTIME CACULATION | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | 2857 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2022 |
| 16318380 | DIGITAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT ON A DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION CONSENSUS NETWORK | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 3697 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2019 |
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