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
Transpod Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current prosecution activity is concentrated in a technical sector. The presence of the art unit suggests that the technology being patented falls within a specific classification at the patent office. This focus allows the company to direct its legal resources toward the point of contact within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the company is SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since this examiner handles the pending matter, they are the individual currently evaluating the company's applications. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy is dependent on the feedback and requirements of the examiner within their assigned art unit. The lack of multiple pending actions simplifies the administrative tracking of the portfolio, as all communications are centralized. This concentration allows for a focused strategy when addressing the requirements of the art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 83.6% | +13.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17558396 | VEHICLE FOR TRAVELLING ALONG A LINEAR ROUTE GUIDEWAY | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17558396 | VEHICLE FOR TRAVELLING ALONG A LINEAR ROUTE GUIDEWAY | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17558396 | VEHICLE FOR TRAVELLING ALONG A LINEAR ROUTE GUIDEWAY | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 3615 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2021 |
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