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
TomTom Traffic B.V. is engaged in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company's patent portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action. This action is under the review of 1 distinct examiner, AHN, HYANG, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. This indicates that the company's current prosecution efforts are concentrated on 1 pending matter and a particular individual at the patent office.
The current prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific technical focus for the company's pending intellectual property within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution process is direct and centralized. This structure suggests that the company's immediate patenting efforts are concentrated on 1 focused objective. Practitioners can tailor their strategy to the specific nuances of the 1 distinct art unit involved, as the data shows no diversification across different units or examiners at this time.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHN, HYANG | 1 | 87.5% | +25.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18974511 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program for Generating Map Data | AHN, HYANG | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18974511 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program for Generating Map Data | AHN, HYANG | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3661 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18974511 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program for Generating Map Data | AHN, HYANG | 3661 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
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