Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Transit Labs Inc. is navigating 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, though these individuals are situated within a particular art unit. This structure indicates that while the technical focus is narrow, the company must still address the specific perspectives of different officials. Practitioners should coordinate responses to ensure that arguments made to an examiner remain consistent with those presented to others in the same group.
NGUYEN, CUONG H is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. The distribution of active matters across different examiners means that no individual is currently managing the entire prosecution load. The presence of 1 busiest examiner within the context of the overall portfolio requires a strategy that balances individual examiner preferences with the collective standards of the art unit. Successfully managing the 2 pending office actions is crucial for the advancement of the company's patent applications.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, CUONG H | 1 | 78.7% | +8.9% |
| CHONG CRUZ, NADJA N | 1 | 27.8% | +42.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18774666 | DYNAMIC SCHEDULING OF DRIVER BREAKS IN A RIDE-SHARING SERVICE | CHONG CRUZ, NADJA N | 31d overdue |
| 19294996 | CONSTRAINT-BASED ROUTE GENERATION IN A RIDE-SHARING SERVICE | NGUYEN, CUONG H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18774666 | DYNAMIC SCHEDULING OF DRIVER BREAKS IN A RIDE-SHARING SERVICE | CHONG CRUZ, NADJA N | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19294996 | CONSTRAINT-BASED ROUTE GENERATION IN A RIDE-SHARING SERVICE | NGUYEN, CUONG H | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2025 |
| 18774666 | DYNAMIC SCHEDULING OF DRIVER BREAKS IN A RIDE-SHARING SERVICE | CHONG CRUZ, NADJA N | 3623 | §101§112Other | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
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