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
Touchngo Co. is managing 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. For a company with a single pending matter, the entire focus of their current patent strategy is on the outcome of this specific case. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is pursuing a specialized innovation within the transportation and mechanical systems field.
GAW, MARK H is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. This examiner is responsible for the company's entire pending workload, as the total number of pending office actions is 1. This creates a singular point of contact between the company and the patent office, making the examiner's specific preferences a critical factor in the company's success. The practitioner must focus all efforts on the tendencies of GAW, MARK H, as there are no other pending office actions or distinct examiners to provide a broader base of prosecution activity.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAW, MARK H | 1 | 49.8% | +59.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18872317 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING NFC PAYMENTS AND AUTHENTICATION, AND DEVICE THEREFOR | GAW, MARK H | 56d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18872317 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING NFC PAYMENTS AND AUTHENTICATION, AND DEVICE THEREFOR | GAW, MARK H | 56d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18872317 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING NFC PAYMENTS AND AUTHENTICATION, AND DEVICE THEREFOR | GAW, MARK H | 3693 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
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