Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
TrueCar Inc. currently oversees 8 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are processed through 4 distinct art units, showing a variety of technical classifications for the company's pending matters. The prosecution involves 8 distinct examiners, indicating that no two pending actions are currently assigned to the same person. This distribution requires the company to manage 8 separate interactions with patent office personnel.
The busiest examiner identified is IQBAL, MUSTAFA, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This matches the workload of the other examiners, as the 8 pending actions are distributed across 8 distinct examiners. The use of 4 distinct art units suggests that the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems filings are being evaluated by several different technical groups. Managing 8 pending office actions without any examiner overlap requires the company to handle 8 unique examination processes simultaneously. This distribution across 4 art units and 8 examiners highlights the need for a versatile prosecution strategy to address diverse examiner viewpoints. The 4 art units involved indicate that the company's 8 pending actions are grouped into specific technical sub-sectors.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 only | 3 (38%) |
| §101 + other | 5 (62%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IQBAL, MUSTAFA | 1 | 46.7% | +25.8% |
| WASAFF, JOHN S. | 1 | 33.8% | +44.0% |
| TORRICO-LOPEZ, ALAN | 1 | 29.1% | +37.8% |
| ASHRAF, WASEEM | 1 | 49.6% | +9.6% |
| PADOT, TIMOTHY | 1 | 39.9% | +29.3% |
| SITTNER, MICHAEL J | 1 | 10.9% | +14.9% |
| VETTER, DANIEL | 1 | 20.1% | +9.0% |
| FEACHER, LORENA R | 1 | 28.5% | +32.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18818998 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEALER EVALUATION AND DEALER NETWORK OPTIMIZATION USING SPATIAL AND GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS IN A NETWORK OF DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS | TORRICO-LOPEZ, ALAN | 5d overdue |
| 15582301 | DATA SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE INCENTIVE ALLOCATION IN AN ONLINE NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT | FEACHER, LORENA R | 27d |
| 16433521 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION OF USED VEHICLE PRICING DATA | VETTER, DANIEL | 34d |
| 16565970 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTION, FILTERING OR PRESENTATION OF AVAILABLE SALES OUTLETS | SITTNER, MICHAEL J | 35d |
| 19087097 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING LIFETIME VALUE OF WEBSITE VISITOR THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING | IQBAL, MUSTAFA | — |
| 18970568 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFORMATION OF RAW DATA TO ACTIONABLE DATA | WASAFF, JOHN S. | — |
| 18810249 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND PRESENTING CROSS-MAKE AND CROSS-SEGMENT VEHICLE RECOMMENDATIONS | ASHRAF, WASEEM | — |
| 17851612 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPARING ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE USING INDUSTRY CONSUMER DATA IN A NETWORK OF DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS | PADOT, TIMOTHY | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18818998 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEALER EVALUATION AND DEALER NETWORK OPTIMIZATION USING SPATIAL AND GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS IN A NETWORK OF DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS | TORRICO-LOPEZ, ALAN | 5d overdue |
| 15582301 | DATA SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE INCENTIVE ALLOCATION IN AN ONLINE NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT | FEACHER, LORENA R | 27d |
| 16565970 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTION, FILTERING OR PRESENTATION OF AVAILABLE SALES OUTLETS | SITTNER, MICHAEL J | 35d |
| 19087097 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING LIFETIME VALUE OF WEBSITE VISITOR THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING | IQBAL, MUSTAFA | — |
| 18970568 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFORMATION OF RAW DATA TO ACTIONABLE DATA | WASAFF, JOHN S. | — |
| 17851612 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPARING ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE USING INDUSTRY CONSUMER DATA IN A NETWORK OF DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS | PADOT, TIMOTHY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3625 | 4 |
| 3621 | 2 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19087097 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING LIFETIME VALUE OF WEBSITE VISITOR THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING | IQBAL, MUSTAFA | 3625 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 18970568 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFORMATION OF RAW DATA TO ACTIONABLE DATA | WASAFF, JOHN S. | 3629 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18818998 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEALER EVALUATION AND DEALER NETWORK OPTIMIZATION USING SPATIAL AND GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS IN A NETWORK OF DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS | TORRICO-LOPEZ, ALAN | 3625 | §101Other | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18810249 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND PRESENTING CROSS-MAKE AND CROSS-SEGMENT VEHICLE RECOMMENDATIONS | ASHRAF, WASEEM | 3621 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 17851612 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPARING ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE USING INDUSTRY CONSUMER DATA IN A NETWORK OF DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS | PADOT, TIMOTHY | 3625 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2022 |
| 16565970 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTION, FILTERING OR PRESENTATION OF AVAILABLE SALES OUTLETS | SITTNER, MICHAEL J | 3621 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Sep 10, 2019 |
| 16433521 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION OF USED VEHICLE PRICING DATA | VETTER, DANIEL | 3628 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 06, 2019 |
| 15582301 | DATA SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE INCENTIVE ALLOCATION IN AN ONLINE NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT | FEACHER, LORENA R | 3625 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Apr 28, 2017 |
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