Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tractive Inc. has 2 pending office actions currently active in the Communications technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners. The prosecution is further divided across 2 distinct art units, indicating that each pending application is being reviewed in a different technical environment within the patent office despite both falling under Communications.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is PHAM, QUANG, who accounts for 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is perfectly distributed among the assigned personnel. This structure means that the company's current efforts are not concentrated under a single examiner, as the 2 distinct art units match the total number of pending matters.
Because there are 2 distinct examiners for the 2 pending office actions, each application receives individual attention from a different examiner. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's Communications technology is being examined by different specialized groups. This requires the company to maintain distinct prosecution strategies for each of the 2 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, QUANG | 1 | 54.2% | +57.3% |
| MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 1 | 8.6% | +50.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18516074 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PET MOBILITY DETECTION | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 46d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18516074 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PET MOBILITY DETECTION | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 46d overdue |
| 18890218 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANNOTATING PET HEALTH-RELATED SENSOR DATA | PHAM, QUANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18890218 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANNOTATING PET HEALTH-RELATED SENSOR DATA | PHAM, QUANG | 2685 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18516074 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PET MOBILITY DETECTION | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
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