Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Texas State University has 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are being handled by 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the university's mechanical and transportation research is being reviewed by multiple specialized teams. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the portfolio covers different sub-disciplines, requiring the university to adapt to different examination styles within the broader technology area.
The busiest examiner, MCPHERSON, JAMES M, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given the total of 3 pending actions, each examiner is managing exactly one case. This means the university's current prosecution is spread across 3 distinct examiners. Practitioners should carefully track the pending office actions to ensure that the arguments presented to one examiner do not conflict with those presented to the others in the 2 distinct art units. This coordination is necessary to maintain a consistent prosecution history within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
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 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCPHERSON, JAMES M | 1 | 82.2% | +17.3% |
| SHAH, UTPAL D | 1 | 87.9% | +11.3% |
| KINGDON, CATHY | 1 | 80.3% | +2.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19032386 | GENERATING SAFEST ROUTE BASED ON ROAD NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS AND OPERATIONAL MEASURES | MCPHERSON, JAMES M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17965436 | MODULATING STRESS RESPONSES BY A NOVEL CHROMATIN-ASSOCIATED GUIDE RNA DERIVED FROM TRANSFER RNA | KINGDON, CATHY | 24d overdue |
| 18911537 | EMOTION PORTRAYAL DATABASE | SHAH, UTPAL D | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19032386 | GENERATING SAFEST ROUTE BASED ON ROAD NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS AND OPERATIONAL MEASURES | MCPHERSON, JAMES M | — |
| 18911537 | EMOTION PORTRAYAL DATABASE | SHAH, UTPAL D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3663 | 1 |
| 1663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19032386 | GENERATING SAFEST ROUTE BASED ON ROAD NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS AND OPERATIONAL MEASURES | MCPHERSON, JAMES M | 3663 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2025 |
| 18911537 | EMOTION PORTRAYAL DATABASE | SHAH, UTPAL D | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 17965436 | MODULATING STRESS RESPONSES BY A NOVEL CHROMATIN-ASSOCIATED GUIDE RNA DERIVED FROM TRANSFER RNA | KINGDON, CATHY | 1663 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Oct 13, 2022 |
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