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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
TomTom Traffic B.V. maintains a patent portfolio currently active within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution data reveals a limited current workload, with 1 pending office action across the entire portfolio. This indicates that the company's immediate interactions with the patent office are focused on a specific matter rather than a broad array of simultaneous filings.
The organizational distribution of these filings is centralized, involving a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. Such a narrow distribution means that the company's current prosecution success relies on the outcomes within a specific administrative division. BRADY III, PATRICK MICHAEL serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because this examiner is responsible for the company's only active office action, the prosecution strategy is dependent on the specific tendencies and requirements of this individual official.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRADY III, PATRICK MICHAEL | 1 | 54.1% | +39.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18459731 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED NAVIGATION | BRADY III, PATRICK MICHAEL | 4d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18459731 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED NAVIGATION | BRADY III, PATRICK MICHAEL | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3665 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18459731 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED NAVIGATION | BRADY III, PATRICK MICHAEL | 3665 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
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