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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Textnow Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner, OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF, is handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action constitutes the entirety of the company's current pending prosecution. Practitioners can observe that the company's immediate patent strategy is concentrated on a single point of contact within the USPTO.
The focus on 1 distinct art unit indicates a specific technical niche for the company's current patenting activity. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's success in this matter is closely tied to the specific review style of OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF. This 1 pending office action represents the full extent of the company's current engagement with the patent office. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a narrow and specific focus in the company's current filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 1 | 16.2% | +14.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18598438 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS EVENTS | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18598438 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS EVENTS | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18598438 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS EVENTS | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 3622 | Other | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
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