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
Truly Free Inc. maintains 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to Saba Dagnew, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending action. The prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused set of claims within the mechanical and e-commerce space that are being evaluated by a single official.
Since the portfolio contains 1 pending office action, the immediate legal strategy is tied to the specific requirements and examination style of Saba Dagnew. The involvement of 1 art unit indicates that the subject matter is concentrated within a specific technical classification, which may simplify the search for relevant prior art. Success in this action will determine the short-term growth of the company's patented assets and its standing in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
Practitioners should note that having 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit provides a streamlined path for communication, as there are no conflicting requirements from different patent office divisions. However, this also means that any hurdles encountered with Saba Dagnew will affect the entire pending portfolio. The company's focus on 1 pending office action suggests a deliberate and targeted approach to its intellectual property development, where each filing is of high strategic importance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAGNEW, SABA | 1 | 37.5% | +17.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19064985 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTION OF MEMBERSHIP INCENTIVES IN E-COMMERCE MARKETPLACES | DAGNEW, SABA | 40d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19064985 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTION OF MEMBERSHIP INCENTIVES IN E-COMMERCE MARKETPLACES | DAGNEW, SABA | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3621 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19064985 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTION OF MEMBERSHIP INCENTIVES IN E-COMMERCE MARKETPLACES | DAGNEW, SABA | 3621 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
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