Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Topcon Positioning Systems Inc. has 5 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, matching the total number of pending actions.
The workload spans 4 distinct art units, indicating some overlap in departmental oversight. BONGANI JABULANI MASHELE is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, reflecting a portfolio where each of the 5 examiners holds 1 of the pending cases.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MASHELE, BONGANI JABULANI | 1 | 84.6% | +4.6% |
| KUMAR, KALYANAVENKA K | 1 | 72.9% | +18.3% |
| MCPHERSON, JAMES M | 1 | 82.2% | +17.3% |
| BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | 1 | 63.0% | +18.4% |
| DRYDEN, EMMA ELIZABETH | 1 | 67.9% | +12.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18865712 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MITIGATION OF GNSS-SIGNAL INTERFERENCE | MASHELE, BONGANI JABULANI | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18586605 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ZONE MAPPING | MCPHERSON, JAMES M | 56d |
| 18479258 | MATERIAL DENSITY INDEX | BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18586605 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ZONE MAPPING | MCPHERSON, JAMES M | 56d |
| 18908743 | AUTOMATED INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | KUMAR, KALYANAVENKA K | — |
| 18479258 | MATERIAL DENSITY INDEX | BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | — |
| 18255684 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING MARKER POSITION AND ATTITUDE | DRYDEN, EMMA ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 2171 | 1 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18865712 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MITIGATION OF GNSS-SIGNAL INTERFERENCE | MASHELE, BONGANI JABULANI | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18908743 | AUTOMATED INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | KUMAR, KALYANAVENKA K | 3653 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18586605 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ZONE MAPPING | MCPHERSON, JAMES M | 3663 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18479258 | MATERIAL DENSITY INDEX | BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | 2171 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18255684 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING MARKER POSITION AND ATTITUDE | DRYDEN, EMMA ELIZABETH | 2677 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
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