Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Boston Consulting Group Inc. has 9 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. Those matters span 9 examiners and 8 art units, so the portfolio is distributed across nearly as many examination assignments as actions.
ULLAH, ARIF is the busiest identified examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner holds a larger stated concentration, which means prosecution management should emphasize matter-by-matter coordination rather than a single examiner relationship.
The art-unit spread also calls for separate analysis of office-action patterns by assignment. Counsel can use that structure to organize response calendars, identify recurring claim issues within each unit, and avoid treating the docket as a uniform group.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 only | 3 (38%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (38%) |
| §103 only | 1 (12%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ULLAH, ARIF | 1 | 48.1% | +36.5% |
| OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 1 | 16.1% | +13.9% |
| ZIMMERMAN, MATTHEW E | 1 | 51.7% | +46.2% |
| HOLZMACHER, DERICK J | 1 | 44.4% | +28.6% |
| MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT | 1 | 24.8% | +25.0% |
| KANAAN, LIZA TONY | 1 | 23.4% | +31.5% |
| ELKASSABGI, ZAHRA | 1 | 29.2% | +41.1% |
| HO, THOMAS Y | 1 | 17.6% | +29.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18615769 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING ITEM SUBSTITUTIONS | ZIMMERMAN, MATTHEW E | 58d overdue |
| 18430096 | Customer-Enabled Bank Platform For Use with Carbon Calculator | MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT | 38d overdue |
| 18420188 | GENERATIVE AI SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING CONTENT USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS | KANAAN, LIZA TONY | 7d |
| 17666320 | OVERFLOW MANAGEMENT CONFIGURATION ENGINE IN A MATERIAL PROCESSING SYSTEM | HO, THOMAS Y | 27d |
| 18758870 | Computing Nodes for Performing Optimization Using Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Integer Programming | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 41d |
| 18594815 | Optimizing Cyber Security Projects | HOLZMACHER, DERICK J | — |
| 17722225 | MARKETING BUDGET ALLOCATION IN A DATA ANALYTICS SYSTEM | ELKASSABGI, ZAHRA | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18615769 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING ITEM SUBSTITUTIONS | ZIMMERMAN, MATTHEW E | 58d overdue |
| 18430096 | Customer-Enabled Bank Platform For Use with Carbon Calculator | MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT | 38d overdue |
| 18420188 | GENERATIVE AI SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING CONTENT USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS | KANAAN, LIZA TONY | 7d |
| 17666320 | OVERFLOW MANAGEMENT CONFIGURATION ENGINE IN A MATERIAL PROCESSING SYSTEM | HO, THOMAS Y | 27d |
| 18758870 | Computing Nodes for Performing Optimization Using Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Integer Programming | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 41d |
| 19079542 | SYSTEMS AND TECHNIQUES FOR OPTIMIZING THE IMPLEMENTATION AND OPERATION OF POWER-TO-X PLANTS | ULLAH, ARIF | — |
| 18594815 | Optimizing Cyber Security Projects | HOLZMACHER, DERICK J | — |
| 17722225 | MARKETING BUDGET ALLOCATION IN A DATA ANALYTICS SYSTEM | ELKASSABGI, ZAHRA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3625 | 2 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19079542 | SYSTEMS AND TECHNIQUES FOR OPTIMIZING THE IMPLEMENTATION AND OPERATION OF POWER-TO-X PLANTS | ULLAH, ARIF | 3625 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 18758870 | Computing Nodes for Performing Optimization Using Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Integer Programming | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 3622 | §101 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18615769 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING ITEM SUBSTITUTIONS | ZIMMERMAN, MATTHEW E | 3688 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 58d overdue | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18594815 | Optimizing Cyber Security Projects | HOLZMACHER, DERICK J | 3625 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18430096 | Customer-Enabled Bank Platform For Use with Carbon Calculator | MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT | 3628 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18420188 | GENERATIVE AI SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING CONTENT USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS | KANAAN, LIZA TONY | 3683 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 17722225 | MARKETING BUDGET ALLOCATION IN A DATA ANALYTICS SYSTEM | ELKASSABGI, ZAHRA | 3623 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
| 17666320 | OVERFLOW MANAGEMENT CONFIGURATION ENGINE IN A MATERIAL PROCESSING SYSTEM | HO, THOMAS Y | 3624 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Feb 07, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialThe Boston Consulting Group Inc. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 8 examiners.
Arif Ullah has the most, with 1 of The Boston Consulting Group Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
