Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Third Research Institute of Ministry of Public Security is active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area with 4 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners, indicating that no two pending applications are being reviewed by the same person. This high level of examiner diversity is matched by the presence of an equal number of distinct art units, showing that the company's patent applications cover a broad range of technical sub-fields within the larger technology area.
MUELLER, SARAH ALEXANDRA is the busiest examiner for this entity, currently holding 1 pending office action. Since each of the pending office actions is assigned to a different examiner, the workload is perfectly distributed across the identified examiners and art units. For a practitioner, this means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to multiple different examiners and multiple different art unit environments simultaneously. The lack of overlap suggests that the company's current filings are technically diverse and do not allow for a consolidated prosecution strategy.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUELLER, SARAH ALEXANDRA | 1 | 60.4% | +30.1% |
| MURRAY, WAYNE SCOTT | 1 | 44.9% | +46.9% |
| MAY, ROBERT F | 1 | 73.4% | +31.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18014040 | FACIAL TEST DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR DETECTION OF FACIAL RECOGNITION DEVICE, AND METHOD | MAY, ROBERT F | 14d |
| 18730522 | HAZARDOUS-GOODS VEHICLE TRANSPORTATION SAFETY MONITORING CLIENT BASED ON CLOUD PLATFORM | MURRAY, WAYNE SCOTT | 39d |
| 18832006 | VEHICLE SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM BASED ON INTERNET OF THINGS | MUELLER, SARAH ALEXANDRA | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18014040 | FACIAL TEST DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR DETECTION OF FACIAL RECOGNITION DEVICE, AND METHOD | MAY, ROBERT F | 14d |
| 18730522 | HAZARDOUS-GOODS VEHICLE TRANSPORTATION SAFETY MONITORING CLIENT BASED ON CLOUD PLATFORM | MURRAY, WAYNE SCOTT | 39d |
| 18832006 | VEHICLE SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM BASED ON INTERNET OF THINGS | MUELLER, SARAH ALEXANDRA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3669 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| 2154 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18832006 | VEHICLE SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM BASED ON INTERNET OF THINGS | MUELLER, SARAH ALEXANDRA | 3669 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18730522 | HAZARDOUS-GOODS VEHICLE TRANSPORTATION SAFETY MONITORING CLIENT BASED ON CLOUD PLATFORM | MURRAY, WAYNE SCOTT | 3628 | §101 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18014040 | FACIAL TEST DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR DETECTION OF FACIAL RECOGNITION DEVICE, AND METHOD | MAY, ROBERT F | 2154 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Mar 02, 2023 |
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