Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Boston Consulting Group Inc. maintains a portfolio with 8 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 8 distinct examiners, indicating a broad engagement with the patent office. The workload spans 7 distinct art units, reflecting the diverse technical sub-sectors within the company's focus.
ZIMMERMAN, MATTHEW E is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. This means that each of the 8 pending office actions is handled by a different one of the 8 distinct examiners. This high ratio of examiners to actions suggests a lack of examiner concentration.
The involvement of 7 distinct art units suggests that practitioners must navigate various examination standards and timelines across the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. Managing 8 pending office actions across 8 distinct examiners requires a coordinated approach to ensure consistency in prosecution across the different art units. This distribution minimizes the impact of any single examiner on the overall portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 2 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 5 (62%) |
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZIMMERMAN, MATTHEW E | 1 | 51.7% | +46.2% |
| HOLZMACHER, DERICK J | 1 | 44.3% | +28.4% |
| MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT | 1 | 24.8% | +25.0% |
| KANAAN, LIZA TONY | 1 | 23.4% | +31.5% |
| BOROWSKI, MICHAEL | 1 | 27.6% | +57.1% |
| LAKHANI, ANDREW C | 1 | 23.0% | +28.7% |
| ELKASSABGI, ZAHRA | 1 | 29.2% | +41.1% |
| HO, THOMAS Y | 1 | 16.9% | +30.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18345200 | GENERATIVE TRANSFORMER MODELS FOR DETERMINING PRODUCT PREDICTIONS | BOROWSKI, MICHAEL | 60d overdue |
| 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 |
| 18172572 | CARBON EMISSIONS AND POWER FOOTPRINT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | LAKHANI, ANDREW C | 6d |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18345200 | GENERATIVE TRANSFORMER MODELS FOR DETERMINING PRODUCT PREDICTIONS | BOROWSKI, MICHAEL | 60d overdue |
| 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 |
| 18172572 | CARBON EMISSIONS AND POWER FOOTPRINT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | LAKHANI, ANDREW C | 6d |
| 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 |
| 18594815 | Optimizing Cyber Security Projects | HOLZMACHER, DERICK J | — |
| 17722225 | MARKETING BUDGET ALLOCATION IN A DATA ANALYTICS SYSTEM | ELKASSABGI, ZAHRA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 2 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 18345200 | GENERATIVE TRANSFORMER MODELS FOR DETERMINING PRODUCT PREDICTIONS | BOROWSKI, MICHAEL | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18172572 | CARBON EMISSIONS AND POWER FOOTPRINT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | LAKHANI, ANDREW C | 3629 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Feb 22, 2023 |
| 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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